Holland & Hart LLP

Holland & Hart's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice is comprised of attorneys who focus on developing strategies for enforcing and exploiting patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, trade secret and other IP rights. Adept at mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, our trial attorneys are also equipped to try cases, with a full-sized mock courtroom, an in-house team of jury consultants, and an extensive multimedia and graphics department at our disposal. We approach IP Litigation from a standpoint of common sense and persuasiveness. We develop trial themes at the outset and focus our efforts during litigation to streamline costs and maximize the potential for early and favorable settlement.

As trial attorneys, we are prepared to litigate any dispute, but our first priority is our clients' business objectives. After a dispute arises, we move quickly to analyze the merits of the dispute, the alternative mechanisms and scenarios for resolving the dispute, as well as the costs associated with each scenario. Our clients benefit from this early analysis and can better determine whether it is in their best interest to litigate the dispute or settle the dispute in a manner that better satisfies the client's business objectives.

In addition to litigation, our IP attorneys work with clients to develop long-term strategies for developing and protecting their intellectual property and technology assets. These strategies may include: audits to identify, inventory and protect IP assets; campaigns to license IP assets and/or to acquire IP assets from third-parties; and enforcement strategies, which often include litigation on some level.

Although we are based in the Mountain West, our IP attorneys assist clients with litigation and strategy on a national scope. Our litigators have appeared in 32 U.S. District Courts and eight U.S. Circuit Appellate Courts, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. We also regularly represent clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Board of Patent Interferences and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Not only is our practice national in scope, but it also has a global component. Working with hand-picked foreign law firms, we manage intellectual property litigation for our clients in countries throughout the world.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.