Practice Areas & Industries: Akerman Senterfitt

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. In today's idea and brand-driven economy, intellectual property is often a company's most valuable asset. Properly managed, it gives your business the opportunity to derive profits from its enterprise and ingenuity.

Akerman Senterfitt's Intellectual Property Practice is not only the largest in the state of Florida, but also the most broadly experienced. Most of our Intellectual Property lawyers are engineers and scientists knowledgeable in the world's most rapidly developing fields, from fuel cells and biomedical devices to semiconductor materials and software. Our understanding of technology helps us to create broader patents, write better contracts, develop more profitable licenses, and litigate more effectively.

Services Available

We represent clients in more than 35 countries, as well as companies based in 25 countries that are doing business in the U.S. Our client list includes many Fortune 500 firms, as well as major universities including Penn State, Florida State, the University of Florida, and others.

• Intellectual Property Licensing and Sale
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Patents, Trademarks and Copyright
• Trade Secrets

Clients:
AirNet Communications Corporation, Harris Corporation, IBM Corporation, Thomson Multimedia, Adhaero Technologies, ADSResponsecorp, Inc., Buy-Request.com, Inc, Classleader.com, Inc, Energy Control Technologies, Inc., Exigent International, Florida Atlantic University, Fourbit Group, Inc., Harris Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, ITFlorida, Inc., Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation (Oak Ridge Nat'l Labs), Noca Southeastern University, State of Florida, State Technology Office, The Perfect Web Corporation, Thomson Consumer Electronics, University of Miami, Web Entertainment Group, Winslow Press, Inc., AirNet Communications Corporation, University of Florida, UT-Battelle, LLC manager for the Oak Ridge National Labs, Penn State University, University of Florida