The Electrical and Software Practice Group at Merchant & Gould includes lawyers and staff engineers who possess extensive technical expertise in the hardware, software, computer gaming, telecommunications, sensor, power systems, Internet, semiconductor, video, audio, medical, computer peripheral and fabrication technology industries. Our clients range from individual inventors and emerging regional businesses to Fortune 500 companies located here in the U.S. and worldwide. Services we provide include:
- IP Strategy Development
- Domestic and International Patents
- Patent Infringement and Validity Opinions
- Interferences, Reissues and Reexaminations
- Technology Transfers
- Licensing Agreements
- IP Due Diligence
- Copyright Registration and Protection
- Trade Secret Protection
- Trademark and Trade Dress Registration and Protection
- Trademark Infringement
- Design Patents: Prosecution and Protection
- Internet Issues, including Domain Name Registration and Protection
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Litigation and Appeals
As Internet use and the adoption of software specific to different industries have mushroomed, our intellectual property lawyers have increasingly been called on to perform these services for clients in fields such as finance and medicine, which are not traditionally associated with electronics and computers.
We welcome these new challenges.
Virtually all of the attorneys in our Electrical and Software Group have undergraduate or advanced degrees specific to the electrical or computer arts. Collectively, they put decades of experience regarding patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress and other legal concerns related to electrical and software products within each client's reach and place Merchant & Gould on the top tier of intellectual property law firms nationwide.
