Practice Area

Intellectual Property

Jennings Strouss offers clients the full spectrum of intellectual property services, including the acquisition, enforcement, and defense of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as related licensing, joint technology development arrangements, and litigation. We also assist clients with their core assets, such as technology, brand, and strategic relationships, and help them navigate their unique competitive landscape.

Our clients range from large international corporations to emerging businesses and start-ups in a wide range of industries. We also represent universities, industry associations, and research institutions. Our attorneys’ understanding of a broad range of companies and industries enables them to develop individualized services for each client, creating effective and efficient legal solutions.

Our team’s technical expertise includes blockchain transactions (cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), smart contracts, and the like), machine learning, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence systems, cloud services (including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models), user interface design, robotics, semiconductor processing and wafer fabrication technologies, additive manufacturing, data security and privacy, medical imaging, optics, advanced weapons systems, medical devices, aircraft design, automotive technologies (including autonomous vehicles), avionics, credit and financial services, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

The firm’s intellectual property services encompass the domestic and international aspects of:

patent, trademark, copyright, and industrial design prosecution
exploitation and enforcement of rights through licensing, joint venture, sponsored research, collaboration, technology transfer, and other agreements
defense against the assertion of these rights through traditional and non-traditional forms of litigation
protection and transfer of intellectual property related to bankruptcy, mergers, and acquisitions

Our attorneys routinely conduct audits to assess our client’s intellectual property assets, counsel on strategically developing and managing intellectual property portfolios, and advise on protection from third-party threats. Also, as a result of our attorneys’ experience handling international intellectual property, the firm has developed a worldwide network of trademark, patent, and corporate attorneys to assist with intellectual property and related corporate matters in foreign jurisdictions.

The firm’s multifaceted resources focus on maximizing the value of intellectual property to our clients’ businesses and strive for effective productivity by training the client’s personnel to assume responsibility for asset management. When needed, we call on the skills of the firm’s attorneys who are knowledgeable in corporate, securities, real estate, finance, employment, and tax practices to optimize underlying business objectives.

Jennings Strouss was also voted as the “Intellectual Property Law Firm” in AZ Foothills’ “Best of Our Valley” in 2017, 2018, and 2021.

Areas of Expertise

Patent Prosecution

Our attorneys are skilled in securing patents for a wide range of technologies, including:

encryption
cybersecurity
advanced weapons systems
optics and holography
software architecture
data cache and database systems
microprocessors
semiconductor processing and wafer fabrication technologies
cloud computing
medical devices and medical imaging
supersonic aircraft design
automotive systems
business methods
avionics
credit and financial services
mobile devices
smartphone applications
consumer electronics
consumer products
manufacturing

They are adept at generating reliable, non-infringement, invalidity, and freedom to practice analyses and opinions, particularly on short notice. Our attorneys are also equipped to manage diverse international patent portfolios, as well as strategically significant individual patents and patent families.

Trademarks

Jennings Strouss attorneys are experienced in the selection, adoption, and protection of trademarks and corporate names, and in the management of domestic and international trademark portfolios. They file and prosecute domestic and treaty-based trademark applications, and work with foreign counsel to prosecute national applications and maintain registrations in countries around the world. Also, they have considerable expertise in the areas of trademark licensing and merchandising, as well as the legal issues involved with advertising, branding, and marketing.

Copyrights

Jennings Strouss manages the filing of copyright registration applications across the entire spectrum of copyrightable works. We also assist with the procurement, transfer, and license of copyrighted works, and guide clients through ownership issues that arise when employees, independent contractors, and joint ventures contribute to the creation of copyrighted works.

When necessary, our attorneys are prepared to litigate claims of copyright infringement in federal courts, including claims related to the unauthorized use of software, internet content, music, news articles, sculptural works, and other media. We also help our clients determine the permissible quantity and quality of material that may be used without the permission of the copyright owner under the “fair use” doctrine.

We assist clients with their core assets, such as technology, brand, and strategic relationships, and help them navigate their unique competitive landscape.

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Austin, TX 78701-4076
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Tucson, AZ 85718-5990
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Washington, D.C. 20005-3314
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