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Pillsbury’s Intellectual Property litigators have achieved game-changing results for clients in hundreds of high-stakes IP cases.
Pillsbury Intellectual Property Litigation lawyers have extensive experience asserting and defending IP claims in district courts, in courts of appeal, before administrative agencies such as the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, as well as before U.S. and international ADR tribunals. With over 60 IP lawyers and professionals serving clients around the world, we have been achieving winning results for clients in IP cases for more than 120 years.
Our IP litigation attorneys are experienced trial lawyers. Many team members have advanced scientific and technical degrees in areas including electrical and mechanical engineering, chemistry, biology, physics and computer science. Whether our clients face a bet-the-company competitor suit or infringement claims from a nonpracticing entity, we have the necessary combination of industry experience, technical knowledge and litigation talent to achieve winning results.
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Representing plaintiffs and defendants in all types of IP litigation, we have successfully tried cases to verdict in both federal and state courts and before administrative agencies. We have argued more than 100 claim construction hearings; obtained and defeated numerous motions for injunctive relief; obtained findings of contempt against recalcitrant infringers; and successfully used the inter partes review process to knock out or neutralize numerous patents asserted in litigation. In the last 10 years alone, we have litigated well over 600 IP cases, appearing in 77 of the 94 U.S. district courts and before many courts of appeals including the Federal Circuit. Our IP Litigation team has extensive experience representing clients in the following types of cases:
Combining litigation savvy, technical expertise and extensive industry knowledge, our trial lawyers have a proven record of success.
We have an enviable winning record in trademark matters before district courts, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and international tribunals. We have litigated cases involving diverse trademarks and trade symbols, including word marks, logos, trade dress packaging, product design and graphics, frequently with overlapping design patent, utility patent and copyright claims. We have asserted and defended trademarks in more than 200 countries worldwide.
Pillsbury lawyers act swiftly to protect clients’ trade secrets. We have a proven track record of obtaining emergency relief through temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions and a vast amount of experience prosecuting and defending against claims of trade secret misappropriation in federal and state courts.
We have achieved winning results representing rights owners and accused copyright infringers in litigation and have handled several cases in which copyrighted software is allegedly covered by patents that were also at issue.
Our IP litigators have extensive experience before the International Trade Commission, representing clients in investigations into claimed violations of Section 337 through the alleged unlawful importation of products into the United States that infringe U.S. intellectual property.
Pillsbury IP lawyers possess impressive experience litigating post-grant proceedings — the formal processes offered by the USPTO to challenge a competitor’s patent or strengthen an already granted patent. We routinely represent clients in covered business method reviews, derivation proceedings, interferences (applies to patent applications filed prior to March 16, 2013), ex parte reexaminations, inter partes reviews, patent reissues, post-grant reviews, supplemental examinations and appeals, managing parallel patent infringement litigation as post-grant proceedings move forward.
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