The Electrical and Software Practice Group at Merchant & Gould includes lawyers and staff engineers with extensive technical expertise in industries that require innovations in electrical engineering.
We work with clients in industries such as computer hardware and peripherals, telecommunications hardware, sensors, power systems, semiconductors, video recording components, audio recording components, medical devices, and fabrication technology.
From Individual Inventors to Fortune 500 Companies
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Merchant & Gould has offices in eight U.S. cities. Our clients appreciate the convenience of our nationwide presence and the attractiveness of our Midwestern rate structure.
For more than 100 years, our intellectual property lawyers have represented individual inventors, emerging regional businesses and Fortune 500 companies located in the U.S. and worldwide.
Services we provide to inventors and companies engaged in innovative electrical engineering endeavors include:
- Intellectual property strategy development
- Prosecution and protection of domestic and international patents
- Prosecution and protection of design patents
- Defense and prosecution of patent infringement claims
- Due diligence for intellectual property projects
- Patent validity opinions
- Interferences, reissues and reexaminations
- Technology transfers
- Licensing agreements
- Copyright registration and protection
- Trademark and trade dress registration and protection
- Prosecution and defense of trademark infringement claims
- Trade secret protection
- Alternative dispute resolution, litigation and appeals
Contact Merchant & Gould
Virtually all of the attorneys in our Electrical and Software Group have undergraduate or advanced degrees specific to the electrical or computer arts. Collectively, our lawyers put decades of experience within each client's reach. Merchant & Gould is in the top tier of intellectual property law firms nationwide providing intellectual property services for the electrical engineering and computer hardware industries.
Call one of our eight U.S. offices or send an e-mail to schedule an appointment. Merchant & Gould has the resources to impart convenient and attentive representation for clients around the country and the world.