Merchant & Gould’s experience in the telecommunications industry extends across diverse telecommunications platforms and technology.  With more than a century of experience in handling intellectual property matters, we have continually evolved to meet the ever-changing technology needs of our telecommunications clients.

We take a holistic approach to handling intellectual property matters related to telecommunications services and products.  Our attorneys not only endeavor to protect and defend the core communications technology of our clients, but we also undertake to know our clients competitive position with respect to federal and state regulations, technological convergence, interconnection requirements, and network interfaces and protocols.

M&G’s telecommunications experience serves clients providing services, infrastructure, hardware, and software related to diverse telecommunications areas, including, for example: cable, satellite, cellular, wireless, wireline, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), networking, fiber optics, cryptography/encryption, and the Internet.

Our attorneys and staff engineers have considerable technical experience in the telecommunications field.  Many of our attorneys and staff engineers have worked for major telecommunications companies as attorneys, engineers, programmers, and executives.