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Patent litigation tends to be expensive, and many law firms want to handle your litigation.
We don't want to be litigators: instead, we want to help our client's litigation team WIN. We find that the
additional capabilities of a technology-oriented firm like ours can be very helpful in supporting licensing and
litigation activities. Our attorneys have not only performed prior art analysis, but have even done defenseive
searches (although we recommend that professional searchers or expert consultants should be the first resort for
this). We have also provided substantial added value to litigation teams by developing expert witness positions.
We can also help a litigation team spot abnormalities in the prosecution history. For those clients who have not
already chosen their litigators, we can help with this choice. However, we will not be the lead litigators ourselves.
In preparation for patent licensing, it is often useful to sort through large numbers of patents quickly, and to look
for design-around possibilities in many claims. We have experience with this. Once negotiations are underway, fast
analysis of infringement and validity issues can be very useful in responding quickly to positions taken by an
adversary. (Failure to respond quickly can lead to a shift in momentum.) We have worked successfully with corporate
counsel to develop a tenable position on less than 24 hours' notice.
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