Mechanical

The Mechanical Practice Group at Merchant & Gould is dedicated to promoting the inventive creativity of our clients and to providing them with high quality intellectual property services. Before practicing law, many of our attorneys were inventors and engineers themselves. As such, they are not only able to understand the passion clients have for their creations, they are also able to share it.

The scope of services provided by the Mechanical Group is broad and pervades all aspects of our firm's practice. These include:

• Establishing Short and Long-Term Intellectual Property Strategies
• Patentability / Invention Ownership Opinions
• Preparation and Prosecution of Utility and Design Patents
• Preparing, Filing and Prosecuting U.S. Patent Applications
• Preparing, Filing and Prosecuting International Patent Applications
• Licensing, Policing and Managing Patent Portfolios
• Infringement Investigations
• Conducting IP Due Diligence Studies
• Enforcing Patent Rights

All of the lawyers in this practice group hold engineering or related scientific degrees, and most are also active members of other groups within the firm. Many of these attorneys also have real-world engineering or scientific work experience and/or years of experience representing clients in their respective focus areas to draw on as they serve clients with diverse interests.

The Mechanical Group represents clients in the following industries: automotive, telecommunications, filtration, sports and sporting equipment, vending, sanitizing, medical devices and diagnostics, product coating, power tools, farming and agriculture, food and food processing, lawn and landscaping, building and construction, boating and marine, transportation, aerospace, heavy equipment, paper processing, packaging, appliances, computer, semiconductor and fabrication, superconductor, universities and research, testing and materials and materials processing.