Intellectual Property and Technology Practice       

The Intellectual Property Group at Becker Meisel provides comprehensive intellectual property (“IP”) management and strategic planning services.  We advise clients on “best practices” related to the capture, evaluation, registration, enforcement and value enhancement of a company’s IP. We craft solutions designed to interface with a company’s current business model to maximize the company’s IP rights while minimizing the impact on the company’s ability to generate revenue. We also offer clients a full range of IP licensing services to help convert their IP into revenue, adding to their top line. Finally, we aggressively enforce our client’s rights.  Representative services include:

• The Paris Convention
• Madrid System or Protocol
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• Community Trade Mark System
• Domain name procurement
• Copyright registration for written, visual, graphic, sound recording, software, and HTML materials
• Berne Convention
• Invention disclosures
• Trade secret protection
• Due diligence related to/ formation and execution of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
• Licensing
• Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights
• Enforcement and litigation
• Intellectual property best practices/audits
• Non-disclosure issues
• Non-competition and consulting

The firm represents a wide variety of entities, from large public companies to middle market and start-up companies, to individual innovators in a broad range of areas, including software development; weight loss products and services; medical and other sophisticated devices; equipment leasing; and e-commerce.