Intellectual Property

Meeting the Intellectual Property Needs of Global Leaders.

Milbank’s intellectual property attorneys serve the world’s leading electronics, pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemicals, financial-services, and consumer-products companies, who turn to us for their most sophisticated intellectual property matters.  A list of some of our successful litigation matters provides a good sense of the leading companies that entrust us with their most valuable technology and IP issues, not only for litigation, but for prosecution, counseling, and transactional matters as well.  Please click here to view a representative list of IP engagements. 

We have successfully handled every kind of technology and intellectual property dispute, including litigation, licensing negotiations, and alternative dispute resolution. Whether representing a innovator corporation in a coordinated and worldwide enforcement campaign, or defending a high-tech company accused of infringement in multiple jurisdictions, our attorneys have achieved equally successful results. 

We serve our clients not only in adversity, but also in the creation and management of strategic intellectual property assets through prosecution and counseling.  Our broad range of expertise covers patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, artists’ rights, false and/or misleading advertising, counterfeit products, rights of privacy, franchise, and grey-market goods, among others.

Milbank’s lawyers in this area have been consistently recognized as leading practitioners by numerous publications.  We are routinely ranked in Chambers USA, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts, Who’s Who Legal, to name just a few.

Skilled Lawyers with Experience in Technical Fields

Our IP attorneys include highly skilled litigators, trial attorneys, and prosecutors, who are also accomplished engineers and scientists.  Many have advanced degrees in technical fields such as electronics and computer science, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, and chemical engineering.  Many of our attorneys also have had prior experience working in technical industries, including with such companies as The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Bell Laboratories, Inc., Lederle Laboratories, Squibb, Union Carbide, and Allied Signal.  Members of our team also include former clerks for the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  

Client Focus Is Priority One

Complex multi-party and multi-jurisdictional litigation; difficult prosecution of patent applications for core technology; defending claims for nine-figure damages awards, and “bet-the-company” injunction cases – we’ve handled them all.  But above all we know the importance of working in partnership with our clients to produce the best legal result and get the job done efficiently.  An informed and creative approach to litigation can often add value beyond the simple defense or assertion of claims. 

We have worked with international and domestic clients to select and enforce patents from large portfolios involving, for example, electronics, semiconductors, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.  Partnering with our clients has also resulted in favorable and case-dispositive summary judgments and settlements well before any trial became necessary.  Milbank’s intellectual property attorneys are committed to achieving results that make business sense and further our clients’ objectives.

 And with offices around the world, we can handle or direct matters efficiently and cost-effectively in virtually any federal or state court, in many international courts, at domestic and international patent and trademark offices, before various arbitration tribunals, and before domestic and international administrative bodies, such as the US International Trade Commission.

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