Intellectual Property and Data Rights

We counsel

We advise companies on how they can maximize their commercial rights in software, technical data, and patentable inventions. We do this in three ways:

• We train contract and finance personnel on how to identify and preserve intellectual rights
• We design procedures to track development and reduction to practice so that companies can restrict the government's rights in data and software, and retain title to inventions
• We prepare and review intellectual property and software license agreements, proprietary information, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, teaming and joint venture agreements, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA), grant agreements, and "other transactions" to assure that intellectual property rights are perfected and protected

We litigate

We also represent companies when they enforce or protect their intellectual property rights. This involves litigating challenges by the government to restrictions on software and technical data and patent infringement by the government or its contractors under 28 USC. 1498, as well as pursuing injunctive relief against companies that misappropriate trade secrets.