THE BUSINESS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Wood Phillips assesses intellectual property portfolios for cost effectiveness, helps you set up good internal business practices, performs due diligence to identify and assess intellectual property for mergers and acquisitions and analyzes portfolios for strategic thinking, action and results.

• Copyright
• Litigation
• Patents
• Chem/Bio
  /Pharma
• Electrical
• Mechanical
• Plant
• Trademark

Global Reach and Perspective

Our practice is truly worldwide, an important advantage in today’s global economy. In addition to the U S, Wood Phillips attorneys have traveled in Latin America, Europe and Asia, meeting and doing business with officials of French, UK, German, Japanese, European, Brazilian and Argentine patent offices.

Copyright

Wood Phillips offers a full range of protective services for client business ideas subject to copyright. These include everything from client counseling, obtaining federal copyright registration to enforcing and defending copyrighted matter in court. Firm attorneys have also assisted clients in licensing and acquiring rights in work copyrighted by others.

Litigation

Combining diverse technical backgrounds with intellectual property expertise and extensive litigation experience, Wood Phillips attorneys aggressively protect and pursue client interests in federal and state courts, effectively and efficiently litigating patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other business ideas. Our attorneys have achieved success for clients in trial courts throughout the United States in both jury and bench trials. Wood Phillips attorneys have served as appellate counsel before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, represented clients in ADR proceedings and enforced our clients' rights before the International Trade Commission and Court of Federal Claims.

Patents

Wood Phillips attorneys have been responsible for the issuance of tens of thousands of patents. We draft U S and foreign patent applications and participate in all areas of patent prosecution, including activities involving the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

We help clients assess potentially patentable subject matter and choose the best ways to protect technology from a business perspective. In addition, we provide legal opinions about patentability, non-infringement and validity/invalidity. And as relevant new laws emerge, the firm provides clients with a steady flow of current information and counseling.

Chem/Bio/Pharma

A major portion of Wood Phillips practice involves U S and foreign patent prosecution in the agricultural, biological, pharmaceutical and chemical fields. Firm personnel include a PhD in immunogenetics and immunology and two former Patent and Trademark Counsels to a large pharmaceutical company who are particularly adept at providing bottom line oriented solutions. Other attorneys have backgrounds in genomics, biochemistry and chemical engineering.

Electrical

Wood Phillips attorneys have worked extensively with a variety of electrical and electronic inventions, including those involving wireless communications, electronic process control, data transmission and related technologies. We have also protected client ideas and electronic processes through related patents, including business method patents.

Mechanical

Wood Phillips attorneys have prepared and prosecuted patents involving machine tools, heat exchangers, non-woven fabrics, medical devices, injection molded valves, emergency/rescue equipment and other technologies. Extensive industry background and experience enable us to provide efficient, targeted coverage.

Plant

Plant patents, with their unique attributes, provide the owner with protection very different from general utility patents. For clients seeking plant patent expertise, Wood Phillips offers particular value.

Trademark

Wood Phillips provides services including trademark searches, foreign and domestic trademark application filing and prosecution, licensing, enforcement and litigation as needed within an overall context of trademark portfolio management for client business profitability. We also offer pre-filing advice and maintain watch lists for potential competitors’ marks, ensuring that clients’ right are protected while controlling client costs.