Our Services

Patent GC offers a range of patent and trademark law services to our clients. We are uniquely qualified to provide true business counseling to our clients because all of our team members are seasoned business executives. After beginning their careers at prestigious law firms, our team members each left private practice to become the chief in-house IP counsel at one or more top technology companies. The experience gained from being in-house counsel transformed them from law firm lawyers into business partners. Rather than simply drafting patent and trademark applications for our clients, our team members actually help our clients decide how best to utilize their company’s resources and monetize their intellectual property assets.

Our services include:

Patent Prosecution: Patent GC can handle all of your patent prosecution work, including full docketing support. Our vast experience combined with our lean staffing and low rates allows us to offer the best value in the patent law market today.

Strategic Patent Portfolio Building: Instead of just taking invention disclosures and converting them into patent applications, Patent GC can develop short term and long term plans for building a patent portfolio that is designed to support the company’s business strategy and objectives. By working with senior business executives and technology leaders in the company, Patent GC can quickly understand your business and advise how intellectual property can be used to enhance your competitive position.

Outsourced Patent Counsel: Many of our clients use Patent GC team members as their on-demand, part-time in house patent counsel, either in lieu of hiring a full-time attorney or as a supplement to their existing in-house IP team. Our clients also can rely on us to create and run their patent committees, manage litigation, perform freedom to operate studies and patentability analyses. Because we’ve all been in-house patent counsel for leading technology companies, we bring a wealth of knowledge and best practices to bear, and understand how to operate effectively within an organization.

Trademark Prosecution and Counseling: Patent GC offers a full suite of trademark law services. We (i) prepare and prosecute trademark and service mark applications, including coordinating with foreign counsel; (ii) help evaluate potential new marks and develop worldwide trademark strategy; (iii) monitor third party use of potentially infringing marks; (vi) evaluate, respond to and resolve disputes with third parties; and (v) educate clients as to the proper use of marks so as to maintain their intellectual property rights.

Transaction Due Diligence: Companies and investors utilize Patent GC as a cost-effective solution for IP due diligence in advance of M&A and venture financing transactions. Our team has years of experience with evaluating and analyzing IP portfolios. We do more than just review patents – we give true business analysis on the value of a target company’s IP assets.

Monetization of Intellectual Property: Patent GC can help you develop practical plans to monetize your intellectual property. Drawing from in-house experiences and successful programs, Patent GC will work with you to identify real business opportunities which use intellectual property to help build your business.

Open Source: Open source licensing issues are addressed by all technology companies. We can assist our clients in developing effective, workable policies and procedures for helping you manage the many issues created by the ready availability of software under open source licenses.