Protecting your ideas, giving you the power to compete
One of the driving forces in today’s marketplace is intellectual property. Ideas and designs are now as important to corporate success as financial and operational expertise. At Foley Hoag, we understand the value of protecting our clients’ intellectual property; and we have the experience to provide a global perspective.
Intellectual property-based transactions are what give modern business momentum. Those businesses that effectively protect their intellectual property have the power to compete in 21st Century markets. Those businesses that fail to protect their intellectual property can quickly lose enterprise value.
Foley Hoag’s Intellectual Property practice is organized to deal with all aspects of the marketplace of ideas and designs. Our approach is truly multidisciplinary. For example, our patent practitioners work with our licensing specialists, international trademark lawyers, and patent/intellectual property litigators as a unified team. Many of our team members have advanced scientific degrees, which allow them to bring in-depth familiarity and innovative technologies to matters, such as patent prosecution, technology transfer, and dispute resolution.
Our practitioners specialize in the identification and protection of your rights to your ideas, designs, trademarks, copyrights, and confidential and/or proprietary information. If your business has global ties, we can help with those needs, as well. The intricacies of protecting your rights in any given country expand exponentially when you company operates in global markets.
For example, ensuring that your design is as well protected in the Philippines as it is in the United States and the common market requires special capabilities. At Foley Hoag, we provide you with these capabilities through our membership in Lex Mundi, which provides access to some of the best practitioners across the world. This connection, coupled with our own strengths, allows us to offer you genuine one-stop-shopping when it comes to trademark, copyright, and licensing of products and content.
Increasingly, claims to exclusive ownership of a process, design or product conflict with other claims for similar or related items. At Foley Hoag, our intellectual property team is trained to evaluate conflicting claims, provide counsel on strategies for resolving these matters commercially, or, when necessary, bring litigation on your behalf to establish rights. We feel that a critical part of our ability to serve our clients effectively is our broad exposure to disputes about intellectual property and the sensitivity that exposure has given us. We know that there are times when a conflicting claim is best dealt with through licensing and other times when the issue is a zero-sum game. You can be sure that we will provide advice that takes all these issues into consideration.
