Under law patents must be new, useful and non obvious. A patent grants an inventor a property right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or distributing the patented invention for a limited period of time. What is patentable? Sophisticated semiconductor materials often are and even the design of the Statue of Liberty was patented by the architect Frédéric A. Bartholdi.

Patents

Lucas & Mercanti, LLP regularly counsels clients on maximizing their patent portfolios - by obtaining and leveraging their patent rights. Our services cover every aspect of patent practice and the patent process including:

  • Providing formal or informal legal opinions on issues of patentability, non-infringement, and enforceability.

  • Conducting prior art patentability searches and designing filing strategies.

  • Drafting applications for utility patents, design patents and business method patents.

  • Prosecuting patent applications efficiently, resourcefully and diligently before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

  • Preparing joint research and development agreements.

  • Monitoring the patents of competitors.

  • Designing employee patent awareness programs.

  • Establishing employee invention compensation programs.

  • Conducting intellectual property audits.

  • Collaborating with respected law firms in all major industrialized nations in assisting our clients in obtaining patents in foreign jurisdictions.

  • Prosecuting matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.

  • Litigating actions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

  • Drafting and negotiating agreements for licenses assignments and technology transfers.

  • Counseling clients on state-of-the-art practices and the latest developments in the law