Practices & Industries
Industry Based Solutions
Patent Prosecution
Securing Patent Rights
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun has extensive experience in devising and executing worldwide patent strategies for its clients. Our professionals partner with clients to understand their business objectives and align our patentability assessment, preparation, prosecution, post-grant and opinion activities to meet their needs. Our professionals direct foreign colleagues in prosecution, oppositions, appeals and cancellation proceedings to provide a seamless intellectual property strategy throughout the world.
Patent law is the firm's backbone and patent prosecution is its major focus. Over ninety percent of our attorneys have science or engineering degrees and more than thirty percent hold advanced degrees in those fields. Many of our professionals have held positions in industry as general or patent counsel, scientists, engineers or consultants, or in non-profit organizations as technology transfer managers.
This experience, coupled with our knowledge of the nuances of patent law in specific scientific and technical areas, works in concert to enable Marshall, Gerstein & Borun to develop effective subject matter-specific prosecution strategies. We also draw on the experience of the Firm's litigation and transaction practices to help clients maximize their return on investment in innovation.
Our patent prosecution services include:
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Rendering patentability, validity and non-infringement opinions.
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Preparing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications, including preparing and prosecuting reissue applications and re-examinations.
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Analyzing inventorship issues, making inventorship determinations, and creating invention disclosure forms.
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Resolving ownership disputes regarding patent rights.
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Managing patent interferences and oppositions.
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Advising on patent life-cycle management.
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Auditing patent portfolios.
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Providing in-house educational training and seminars on patent law and related matters.
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun is privileged to have been involved in the prosecution of the following U.S. patents that issued this week:
Patent Number
Title
D653,305
Sprayer
8,107,167
Spatial-dispersion-free spectral combining of pulsed high peak power fiber laser beams
8,106,679
Data processing system
8,106,448
NAND flash memory device
8,106,035
25-SO.sub.2-substituted analogs of 1.mu.,25-dihydroxyvitamin D.sub.3
8,105,946
Method of forming conductive lines of semiconductor memory device
8,105,913
Method of fabricating a capacitor of a semiconductor device
8,105,909
Method of fabricating non-volatile memory device
8,105,757
Method of making a semiconductor device
8,105,601
Compositions and methods for modulating an immune response
8,105,497
Method for fabricating cylinder type capacitor
8,104,711
Landing gear
8,104,621
Method for grading a particulate water-absorbing resin
8,104,542
Process for preparing low-viscosity polymer gels
8,104,495
Versatile emergency shutdown device controller implementing a pneumatic test for a system instrument device
8,104,376
Labeling machine
8,104,283
Steam temperature control in a boiler system using reheater variables
8,104,127
Sheet metal working tool
