Patent Litigation Attorney:
Protecting Your Asset’s Value

Your patent is an asset. The value of your patent asset is derived from intellectual property law. The patent litigation attorneys at Taylor, Dunham and Burgess, L.L.P., are ready to enforce your valuable property rights and help you realize the value of your patent asset.

In the United States, an infringement may occur where the defendant has made, used, sold, offered to sell, or imported an infringing invention or its equivalent. The damages a patent owner can recover via a patent litigation law firm include a reasonable royalty, lost profits and more. Injunctive relief—a court order stopping the infringing sales or production—is also possible.

The attorneys at Taylor, Dunham and Burgess, L.L.P., have represented both companies and individuals in all types of intellectual property cases, including patent infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract. We have also demonstrated flexibility in the fee arrangements we have used in these representations and have regularly represented clients on a contingency fee basis or a hybrid (reduced hourly plus reduced contingency) basis. Your intellectual property rights are time-sensitive. Should you like a free consultation with Taylor, Dunham & Burgess, L.L.P., regarding possible representation, please fill out the form on the right.

No infringement action may be started until the patent is issued. However, pre-grant protection is available under 35 U.S.C. § 154(d), which allows a patent owner to obtain reasonable royalty damages for certain infringing activities that occurred before patent’s date of issuance. This right to obtain provisional damages requires a patent holder to show that (1) the infringing activities occurred after the publication of the patent application, (2) the patented claims are substantially identical to the claims in the published application, and (3) the infringer had “actual notice” of the published patent application.

The Patent Reform Act of 2009 will, if enacted, make changes such as tightening the definition of “willful” infringement and limit infringement cases to states where the defendant’s business operates.