Patent protection is often the cornerstone of the intellectual property rights sought by successful enterprises, offering protection for the embodiment of a new idea. Thus, new product developers, manufacturers, distributors, and the like typically seek patent protection for new machines, devices, manufacturing processes, chemical compositions, etc. to secure legal exclusivity to their innovations. Recent Supreme Court and appellate decisions have greatly modified the nature and scope of patent protection, and our patent attorneys stay abreast of all relevant court decisions to provide clients with thorough and actionable advice regarding this critical aspect of so many businesses. These changes to the law have made it critical for all innovative businesses to address the issue of patents, both from an offensive perspective (namely, to protect the competitive advantage offered by the introduction of novel products and services), and from a defensive perspective (to ensure that investment in new products and services does not result in infringing the patent rights of others).
A successful patent strategy starts with assessing a client's specific technologies and marketing objectives, such that a customized, strategic patenting program may be implemented to build the most appropriate patent portfolio for each client's specific needs. However, in addition to understanding our client's business goals, understanding the inventor's vision is also key to the implementation of a successful patent strategy. Our patent professionals pride themselves on working closely with inventors and fully involving them in the application process in order to fully define and protect their inventions. Such cooperation between attorney and inventor will often yield an application that not only maximizes the chances of obtaining an issued patent, but that will provide the patent holder with a valuable commercial asset.
Our patent practice, which includes the largest number of registered patent attorneys of any firm in the Baltimore area, comprises the preparation and prosecution of both domestic and foreign applications in numerous technological fields, such as mechanical, electrical, and electro-mechanical devices, manufacturing equipment and processes, biomedical devices and processes, fluid handling systems and apparatus, optics, communications, materials sciences, computer and Internet-related inventions, recreational devices, and sporting goods. Our clients range from small, entrepreneurial start-ups to multinational corporations. Well-established relations with foreign associate patent counsel enable us to easily file patent applications throughout the industrialized and commercially significant nations of the world with confidence.
Some of the specific services that our patent prosecution practice provides include:
Consumer packaged goods companies know how to spend on a brand. They know how to lock a formula in a vault. They are much slower to treat a patent as an operating asset.
That habit was always expensive. It is more expensive now.
The SoPE National Capital Area Chapter and the Indian Biomedical Association, in concert with The JHU Carey Business School, MedChi, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Center for Biotechnology Education, Maryland Biotechnology Center, and the Medical Society of Northern Virginia present this panel discussion with Gautam Gulati, Paul Ferris, and Peter Davis.
To learn more and register:
The SoPE National Capital Area Chapter and the Indian Biomedical Association, in concert with The JHU Carey Business School, MedChi, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Center for Biotechnology Education, Maryland Biotechnology Center, and the Medical Society of Northern Virginia present this panel discussion with Gautam Gulati, Paul Ferris, and Peter Davis.
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Peter Davis is a lecturer at the 2013 CASRIP Patent and IP Law Summer Institute.
Peter Davis is a lecturer at the 2013 CASRIP Patent and IP Law Summer Institute.
Peter Davis is a speaker at the 2013 CASRIP Patent and IP Law Summer Institute.
Peter Davis is a speaker at the 2013 CASRIP Patent and IP Law Summer Institute.
This presentation is hosted by the Maryland Venture Fund.
7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:00 a.m. | Patent Strategy & Intellectual Property
This presentation is hosted by the Maryland Venture Fund.
7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:00 a.m. | Patent Strategy & Intellectual Property
Peter Davis, WTP partner and patent lawyer, will speak at the 2012 CASRIP Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute on the Rule of Priority in International Enforcement.
Peter Davis, WTP partner and patent lawyer, will speak at the 2012 CASRIP Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute on the Rule of Priority in International Enforcement.
Peter Davis, WTP partner and patent lawyer, will lecture on Advanced US Prosecution - the Rule of Priority/Interference, at the 2012 CASRIP Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute.
Peter Davis, WTP partner and patent lawyer, will lecture on Advanced US Prosecution - the Rule of Priority/Interference, at the 2012 CASRIP Patent and Intellectual Property Law and Practice Summer Institute.
Peter J. Davis and Joe Morales, experienced patent attorneys at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, will present their insights concerning how the new patent laws are likely to affect their clients and give you the opportunity to ask questions about how they will affect you. If you have any questions about what the new patent laws mean and what you need to do to be ready for the changes, don’t miss this chance to pick their brains for free.
Peter J. Davis and Joe Morales, experienced patent attorneys at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, will present their insights concerning how the new patent laws are likely to affect their clients and give you the opportunity to ask questions about how they will affect you. If you have any questions about what the new patent laws mean and what you need to do to be ready for the changes, don’t miss this chance to pick their brains for free.
On September 8, 2011, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) by margin of 89 to 9. The President will sign the bill into law within the next 10 days. The Leahy Smith America Invents Act is the result of more than ten years of attempts at patent reform and represents the most sweeping change of U.S. Patent laws in over 50 years. The law makes significant changes to a number of areas of the patent law, and brings the U.S.
On September 8, 2011, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act (H.R. 1249) by margin of 89 to 9. The President will sign the bill into law within the next 10 days. The Leahy Smith America Invents Act is the result of more than ten years of attempts at patent reform and represents the most sweeping change of U.S. Patent laws in over 50 years. The law makes significant changes to a number of areas of the patent law, and brings the U.S.
Baltimore – Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded the firm exemplary rankings for 2018. Nineteen of the firm’s practices are ranked at the national level, including three practices with national Tier 1 rankings: Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate. At the state level, an additional fifty practices have been ranked in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and VA.
Baltimore – Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded the firm exemplary rankings for 2018. Nineteen of the firm’s practices are ranked at the national level, including three practices with national Tier 1 rankings: Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate. At the state level, an additional fifty practices have been ranked in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and VA.
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP exemplary ratings in its seventh annual rankings of law firms.
Twenty of the firm’s practices were ranked at the national level, as well as thirty-seven in Maryland, ten in Washington, D.C., and two in Roanoke, VA.
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP exemplary ratings in its seventh annual rankings of law firms.
Twenty of the firm’s practices were ranked at the national level, as well as thirty-seven in Maryland, ten in Washington, D.C., and two in Roanoke, VA.
Fifty-nine lawyers from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016 (copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.). The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Maryland, Washington and Virginia offices.
Fifty-nine lawyers from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016 (copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.). The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Maryland, Washington and Virginia offices.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has received exemplary ratings in the second annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms. In Maryland, WTP was rated highly in 34 practice areas, more than any other firm in the state.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has received exemplary ratings in the second annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms. In Maryland, WTP was rated highly in 34 practice areas, more than any other firm in the state.
