Practice Areas

Business Methods

Companies can today protect innovative methods of doing business through patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Our attorneys and patent agents possess extensive backgrounds in a broad array of industries, with many complementing that technical experience with advanced degrees in business. We can protect (and defend against) all manner of business method inventions

Our Business Methods Practice Group assists companies in identifying, protecting and capitalizing on their “home-grown” systems and processes by:

• Securing your competitive advantage by safeguarding the business method
• Developing documentation and data appropriate for presentation to investors and financial sources
• Counseling targeted strategies for corporate investment of capital and staff 
• Procuring patent protection for innovative business systems and methods
• Maximizing value by positioning protected business methods as industry-wide “best practices”
• Generating prior art to preclude patenting of competing methods

We not only protect your business methods, we can also assist in defending you against claims that you infringe the business method patents of others. Our collective knowledge of the prior art allows us to quickly assess the strength of such claims. Our experience allows us to recommend design-arounds that will not interfere with your operations. Our extensive experience in creating and managing joint defense groups allows us to efficiently defend you against the most tenacious plaintiffs.