Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

Eckert Seamans brings a coordinated, multi-disciplinary team approach to our clients’ needs for technology and licensing services.

The Technology and Licensing Group provides the full range of services required for securing ownership of, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights. The firm’s intellectual property and licensing attorneys assist a wide range of clients with technology and intellectual property transactions. Our Litigation Group is highly experienced in enforcing and defending intellectual property rights and resolving disputes regarding licenses and related agreements.

Our intellectual property and business attorneys assist clients with the acquisition of software, hardware and complex technology-based systems, including development, integration and implementation, licensing, joint ventures and strategic relationships. The firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group provides a full range of services to deal with the consequences of bankruptcy and work-out proceedings to license agreements.

Clients include small and medium-sized businesses, Fortune 500 companies, state governments, universities, individuals and hospitals.

Representative projects include:

• Preparation and prosecution of patents;
• Licensing of intellectual property;
• System development, implementation and integration;
• Trademarks;
• Trade Secrets;
• Copyrights;
• Infringement counseling;
• Employment and Nondisclosure Agreements;
• Technology-based mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships;
• Litigation;
• Outsourcing;
• Electronic commerce;
• Privacy.

The firm is uniquely positioned to serve clients with international business issues through membership in Lex Mundi, an international network of law firms providing “on the ground” services in all significant business jurisdictions worldwide.

At Eckert Seamans, we consider ourselves to be part of our clients' teams and help answer the daily challenges confronting them.

Our policy is simple: Eckert Seamans values the breadth of perspective and experience that comes with a diverse complement of lawyers and staff. We are a firm with national and international clients and a practice which takes our lawyers into cities and courts across this country and abroad. A diverse workforce not only provides a better understanding of the communities and business environments in which we and our clients operate, but also makes our firm a better place to work. Diversity is, and will continue to be, important to our success.

We actively and continuously examine our policies and practices in order to strengthen those that promote inclusiveness. We work to establish “best practices” in the area of diversity just as we do in all areas of our business. As part of our efforts we also look to best practices developed at other businesses that we can apply at Eckert Seamans.

Eckert Seamans is committed to developing and maintaining a diverse workforce of lawyers and staff. We will continue to work hard to make our workforce reflective of the communities which we serve.

In order to meet our goals, our firm has established a Diversity Committee, which includes lawyers (both members and associates) from a variety of offices and practice groups. The Diversity Committee also includes a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, leading members of our practice groups and managing partners at our offices. The Diversity Committee is charged with coordinating recruitment and retention of female and minority attorneys as well as the development and implementation of policies which foster diversity at all levels of the firm. It works closely with the firm’s Hiring, Associate and Executive Committees.