Litigating Intellectual Property Rights
Our goal is to fully protect our clients' intellectual property rights from encroachment and to defend against improper assertions of intellectual property rights against our clients using the most effective dispute resolution measures. When litigation is necessary, we tailor our approach to the needs of each case to achieve the best possible results for our clients, whether through negotiated settlements or trials.
We have the skill and experience to know when and how our clients can achieve their goals without litigation, and when they should litigate. All of our members, and many of our associate attorneys, have years of experience with all phases of litigation. We also have substantial patent, trademark and copyright prosecution experience, which better equips us to be effective intellectual property litigators.
Our litigation attorneys are well trained, and our litigation practice is based on aggressive and efficient representation to achieve maximum results for our clients. Since we began in 1983, we have litigated extensively on behalf of our clients, representing numerous international and domestic corporations before District Courts throughout the United States, and the Court of Federal Claims and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. We have particular expertise before our local U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is one of the fastest U.S. District Court (median time of less than six months from filing to disposition). Our litigation experience also includes inter partes administrative proceedings such as §337 exclusion proceedings before the International Trade Commission (ITC), interferences before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trials and Appeals Board (TTAB). We have represented both initiating and responding parties in matters involving:

patent, trademark and copyright infringement, validity, enforceability and damages;

trade secret misappropriation;

antitrust and unfair competition;

patent interference; and

trademark opposition and cancellation.

We handle all phases of litigation, including:

pre-litigation investigation;

filing and responding to complaints;

motion practice;

all aspects of discovery;

settlement negotiations;

trials before juries and judges; and

appeals.

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