INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - THE TWO MAIN COMPONENTS

Protection. Through filings and negotiations with local and foreign governmental agencies, we serve individuals -- and as outside counsel to help businesses -- “get to where they want to go” with their business partners, competitors and suppliers. From the birth of an idea, through its development, commercialization and end-of-life cycle, we help our clients protect, enforce and navigate through the sea of intellectual property rights that exist in today’s global business marketplace.   

Enforcement. We work closely with our clients to develop efficient and productive enforcement strategies when violations of their intellectual property rights arise. These violations may be trademark infringement, trade secret theft, patent infringement, violation of a nondisclosure agreement, violation of the confidentiality provisions of an employment or non-compete agreement, or a violation of any other type of restrictive covenant agreement impacting a company’s proprietary and confidential information. Such strategies span from making a simple phone call to try to quickly resolve the conflict, to sending formal written demands, to full-scale litigation in federal courts throughout the United States. Attorney Robert McKinley frequently serves as lead and local counsel to assist out-of-state attorneys bringing suit on behalf of their clients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey state and federal courts, as well as federal courts in New York, California and Michigan.