Practice Areas & Industries: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

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Bracewell’s top-ranked intellectual property attorneys are intimately familiar with the issues facing our clients and the industries in which they do business.  A significant majority of our attorneys have advanced degrees in biotechnology, chemistry, pharmacology and physics, as well as in chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering.  Prior to joining the firm, many of our lawyers built highly successful careers at research institutions, regulatory agencies, and major public and private companies operating in the cleantech, energy, finance, high-technology, lifesciences and manufacturing sectors.

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This combination of technical, business and legal experience has provided us with an in-depth, first-hand understanding of the needs of our clients.  Our seasoned attorneys provide comprehensive, trusted legal counsel in all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent prosecution and enforcement, licensing, technology transfers and joint venture agreements.  We also advise clients with regard to the registration and protection of other intellectual property rights through trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets and other proprietary information. 

For many of our clients, intellectual assets are the core around which their businesses are built.  We work closely with attorneys throughout the firm to provide legal solutions with respect to company formation, debt and equity financing, environmental and regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution and litigation, audits, due diligence, and other business concerns.

Our attorneys are recognized for their work at the leading edge of law and technology. For 2007-2008, American Lawyer Media named Bracewell as a "Go-To Law Firm" in intellectual property patent counseling based on a survey of top general counsel from the nation's largest corporations. The firm's practice and its attorneys are also ranked among the top in intellectual property work by Chambers and Partners USA (2006-2008), The Legal 500 US-Volume II (Intellectual Property, 2007), and the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2008).  Bracewell was also named the top Houston law firm by NameProtect's Annual Trademark Insider Report, 2002-2006.