Intellectual Property

Milbank’s intellectual property practice group provides comprehensive and sophisticated IP services to the world’s leading businesses. Our attorneys have experience in the full spectrum of IP practice, including complex, multiparty litigation; difficult prosecution of patent trademark and copyright applications; multimillion dollar core technology; and trademark licenses. In addition to trial, appellate and administrative representation, we offer a comprehensive approach to dispute resolution and problem-solving. We provide behind the scenes pre-litigation counseling, infringement and validity opinions, alternative dispute resolution strategies, and assistance in settlement negotiations.

CREATING BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Milbank’s intellectual property attorneys are first and foremost business lawyers, committed to achieving results that further our clients’ objectives and which make business sense. We know the importance of working in partnership with our clients to produce the best legal result and get the job done efficiently and effectively. We also realize that an informed and creative approach to litigation can often add value beyond the simple defense or assertion of claims and rights. We work to understand the business objectives of our clients, and to design realistic strategies that accomplish their goals.

We believe that a key to achieving superior results and controlling legal expense is good planning, which starts with an early assessment of each matter including careful consideration of the risks involved and appropriate resource levels, and a statement of objectives.  Throughout the life of a matter, we discuss these assessments and objectives with our clients so that they continue to reflect the client’s desires.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE

Milbank was one of the first and continues to be preeminent among the world’s truly international law firms. With offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Frankfurt and Munich, we are capable of handling or directing matters efficiently and cost-effectively in virtually any federal or state court, in many international courts, at domestic and international patent and trademark offices, and before domestic or international administrative bodies and arbitration tribunals. Throughout the Firm, our attorneys are conversant with the intellectual property laws and emerging legal developments across the globe.

FULL-SERVICE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CAPABILITY

Our intellectual property specialists handle every kind of technology and intellectual property matter, including:  patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, artists’ rights, false and misleading advertisements, counterfeit products, rights of privacy, franchise and gray-market goods.

Our specialists include a growing team of experienced litigators who are also patent attorneys registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Milbank’s practice includes representation in patent infringement cases of a wide variety of manufacturing and financial service companies in many diverse technologies. Our attorneys routinely advise clients on the validity and infringement of patents held by others – essential preparation for doing business in the U.S. markets today. Milbank’s attorneys also include experienced and licensed patent and trademark prosecutors, who advise clients on all aspects of intellectual property portfolio protection, maintenance and development. Our patent attorneys have technical training and experience in a wide variety of fields, including electronics, semiconductors, aerospace, telecommunications, computer software, chemistry, pharmacology, physics, mechanical design and biotechnology.

Our trademark specialists draw on deep experience in varied markets, categories of goods and services and methods of protection and enforcement of trademark rights. In addition to state and federal district court trademark infringement and unfair competition litigation, our practice includes the preparation, filing and prosecution of federal and state trademark registrations, coordinating with counterfeiting and gray market investigations by the U.S. Customs Service, and handling oppositions in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  We provide similar, extensive service in preparing, securing and enforcing our clients’ copyright and design patent claims.

Partners and Counsel

Chalsen, Chris E.
Evans, Gregory
Griem, Jr., John M.
Kass, Lawrence T.
Koch, Robert J.
Leblanc, Andrew M.
Murray, Michael M.
Perkins, David
Scarsi, Mark
Taylor, Errol B.
Wallace, III, William E.
Zullow, Fredrick M.