Practice Areas & Industries: Andrews Kurth LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

From start-ups to the Fortune 500, intellectual property protection and patent/trademark issues are critical to the success of rapidly expanding technology-based businesses. That's why Andrews Kurth's growing intellectual property practice includes experienced lawyers committed to protecting, licensing and enforcing all aspects of our clients' intellectual property rights.

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Andrews Kurth provides sound advice on intellectual property issues for companies in the biomedical, chemical, computer and electronics industries. More importantly, our lawyers have extensive experience with domestic and foreign patent and trademark prosecution, litigation and arbitration.

In fact, our Intellectual Property Group represents a range of foreign and domestic companies applying for patents, trademarks and copyrights as well as start-up companies using technology licensed from universities, medical schools and other research centers.

Committed to its technology-based clients, Andrews Kurth has established an office in The Woodlands, a development north of Houston that caters to technology companies.

Andrews Kurth routinely assists clients in forming strategic alliances that involve the development and/or transfer of intellectual property, including:

• licensing in and licensing out of technology, most recently the sublicensing of a company's core technology to a foreign manufacturer and the licensing in of complimentary technology from a foreign company.
• negotiating and drafting cooperative research and development agreements ("CRADAs") and other forms of joint ventures and strategic alliances.
• drafting research contracts or consulting agreements between clients and outside researchers.