We handle intellectual property matters across fast-moving technologies, bringing depth, scope and creativity to a domestic and international practice.
What we handle
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Design and utility patents, provisional and non-provisional applications, prosecution and office action responses, prior art searches, portfolio management and post-issuance services.
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Identifying your marks, strategies for selection and clearance, filing and prosecuting trademark applications wherever your company does business, and customs registration for registered marks.
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Guidance and representation to protect creative works, software and other materials.
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Protecting trade secrets and managing misappropriation risk across joint ventures, partnerships and relationships with employees, customers and vendors.
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Support for litigation teams during IP trials: infringement analysis and claim charting, prior art searches, document review and technical legal documentation.
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Oppositions, cancellations and appeals before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
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Appeals of final rejections, inter partes and post-grant reviews, and defending issued patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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Protecting your invention while you build, test and show your prototype.
About our practice areas
About our practice areas
The Law Office of Herbert T. Patty combines legal and scientific expertise to handle intellectual property (IP) matters across fast-moving technologies. Our experience spans electrical, electromechanical, mechanical, communications, software, computer systems and optical technologies, as well as medical devices, fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, heat transfer, system-level electronics, advanced materials and virtual reality systems.
We provide a full range of portfolio management services. Always aware of clients’ business needs, we help them decide which inventions to patent, where to obtain patent protection, and when to maintain those patents.
For trademarks and copyrights, we identify our clients’ IP, devise strategies for selection and clearance, and look for innovative ways to keep their marks, creative works and other materials protected, including prosecuting trademark applications wherever the company does business.
Our firm helps clients establish brand and media licensing programs, patent and technology transfer ventures, and software or data licensing initiatives. We identify key patents, analyze infringement and quantify infringement exposure, since many licensing programs are built around known infringement.
We also help companies make sure their own activities don’t give rise to claims of trade secret misappropriation, an increasingly important issue as joint ventures, partnerships and confidential relationships with employees, customers and vendors become standard for growing businesses.
Your patent attorney
A Registered Patent Attorney licensed to practice law in California and to represent inventors and companies before the USPTO. Before becoming an attorney, he worked as a process engineer at Intel, then moved to Intel's legal department for patent licensing and prosecution.
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