Hovey Williams represents clients in all types of intellectual property disputes in all forums. The firm has extensive experience representing clients in federal court in patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, and trade secret infringement litigation, as well as other related intellectual property lawsuits. Our attorneys appear before all relevant appellate tribunals.
We also regularly handle both ex parte and inter parte administrative proceedings, including patentability and registrability appeals, patent interferences, patent reexaminations, and trademark oppositions and cancellations.
It is our policy to always steer our clients away from entanglement in unproductive lawsuits. Accordingly, Hovey Williams emphasizes ongoing assistance to its clients to ensure that they are not infringing the rights of others, while at the same time helping its clients to vigilantly protect their own intellectual property rights. We know what is actionable and how to approach every threat.
Outside the courtroom, the firm’s services include infringement opinions, counseling and dispute settlement resolution.
If you send a letter to a competitor threatening a lawsuit regarding your intellectual property, you may provide your competitor with a basis to sue you, asking the court to declare that your threat is meritless. Moreover, the competitor often files the suit in a court that is inconvenient to you. You should always seek legal advice before communicating your beliefs that what a competitor is doing constitutes infringement of your intellectual property rights.
