Litigation
We specialize in managing complex patent, copyright, and trademark litigation nationwide. Leveraging our expertise in federal courts and administrative boards, we focus on achieving your business goals while ensuring cost-effective solutions.
Litigation
McHale | Slavin has extensive experience in complex litigation involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, and trade secrets in federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States, and at the US Patent & Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). In approaching any litigation, our attorneys remain mindful of the client’s overall business objectives in litigation as well as managing its costs.
McHale | Slavin’s litigation attorneys have extensive experience in all areas of patent litigation, copyright litigation, and trademark litigation – including the related areas of domain name disputes, unfair competition claims, and trade secret claims.
In recent years, there has been an increased number of lawsuits filed by various IP assertion entities and/or law firms, often referred to as “patent trolls,” “copyright trolls,” and “trademark trolls.” As a result of McHale | Slavin’s expertise with the nuances of IP legal issues, our attorneys have developed an expertise dealing with many of these assertion entities and their attorneys. Some of the more commonly known of these entities include:
- Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc.
- Aloft Media LLC (including its agent George Street Partners)
- Prepared Food Photos, Inc.
- CopyCat Legal, PLLC
- SRipLAW
- Sream, Inc.
- Higbee & Associates
- Sanders Law Group
- Doniger / Burroughs
If you’ve been threatened with litigation, or already sued by any of these entities, contact us for advice as to how best to proceed.
US Patent & Trademark Office “Litigation”
In addition to our experience in federal courts, McHale | Slavin’s litigation attorneys are experienced in the quasi-judicial proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), including inter partes review and appeals from patent prosecution and ex parte reexaminations; and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”), including opposition and cancellation proceedings.
These Board proceedings are litigated before panels of adminstrative judges to address the validity of patents and trademark registrations. Such proceedings often cooperate with ongoing federal court litigation, or can materially affect related federal court litigation, and need to be considered when addressing a complete litigation strategy.
