Intellectual Property Litigation (Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks)

Turner Padget’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group provides the personal client responsiveness of a boutique firm while leveraging the litigation depth, tools, resources, and capabilities of a large litigation practice.  Whether we are representing a large corporation, a start-up business, or a solo inventor, our team of trial lawyers provides experienced, seasoned enforcement and defense of intellectual property rights in litigation.

Trial skills cannot be learned in books; they are learned in courtrooms.  When success is measured by what happens at trial, trial skills in the courtroom are essential.  Our trial experience and confidence in handling complex, technical matters make us strong advocates for our clients in both the courtroom and the conference room.  The Turner Padget Intellectual Property team prioritizes, identifies pivotal issues, effectively communicates those issues to the judge, jury, or mediator, and works to resolve those issues for our clients in a timely manner that satisfies their objectives.  Throughout the litigation process, our attorneys update and counsel our clients about the progress, costs, and deadlines of the case, to ensure that our clients are informed and that their best interests are served.

Representative Services

Litigation Services

  • Patent, trademark, and copyright litigation (both enforcement and defense)
  • Trade secret violations
  • Unfair competition violations
  • False advertising claims
  • International Trade Commission proceedings
  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings
  • Alternative dispute resolution

Counseling Services

  • Intellectual property strategy development and execution
  • Agreement drafting and negotiation, including confidentiality agreements, consulting agreements, assignments, technology transfer agreements, joint development agreements, and licensing agreements
  • Merger and acquisition due diligence

Experience

  • Represented a bank and its employees in connection with the defense of a trade secret misappropriation litigation.
  • Represented a copyright owner in a copyright infringement case and secured a settlement from the infringing party.
  • Represented a marina products company in a patent infringement case and secured a settlement from the infringing party.
  • Represented an architect in a copyright infringement case and secured a settlement.
  • Representing a lawn and garden products manufacturer in a patent infringement case whose patent is being infringed by a competitor.
  • Represented a marketing company in a copyright infringement case and secured a settlement from the suing party.
  • Representing an individual restaurant owner who is being sued for trademark infringement by a regional restaurant chain.
  • Representing a national publisher of materials for the collegiate market in a trademark cancellation proceeding against our client’s trademark and in multiple trademark cancellation and opposition proceedings against a third party’s marks.

Representative Clients

  • Architects
  • Fabric Company
  • Lawn and garden products manufacturer
  • Marina and boating products manufacturer
  • Regional Bank
  • Spill containment products company