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Intellectual Property

Managing Intellectual Property assets today goes beyond technology. It goes beyond distinct categories of biotechnology, chemistry, mechanics, electrical engineering or any of the other arts. Today’s products and processes not only incorporate multiple disciplines, businesses need competent and experienced counsel with wide-ranging legal, technical, and scientific experience to develop, implement and capitalize on comprehensive strategies to effectively manage, protect, and maximize the value of their intellectual property assets.

Murchison & Cumming’s Intellectual Property Practice Group offers a full-service practice focused on helping clients protect, enforce and exploit their intellectual property rights. Our lawyers represent clients of all sizes, from individual inventors and entrepreneurs to small and mid-size businesses to large multinational corporations. We leverage our diverse backgrounds in business, science, technology and the law with an in-depth understanding of intellectual property rights to help our clients succeed in today’s increasingly competitive global marketplace.

World-Class IP Team With Superior Technical Skills

With decades of experience, our Intellectual Property Practice Group focuses on the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property. Our team has earned a reputation for prosecuting business-critical patents and managing high-value patent portfolios for our clients.

Murchison & Cumming’s attorneys, patent prosecutors, and technical specialists have advanced scientific training and are admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Additionally, the firm has an extensive network of foreign patent agents with whom we work daily on international patent matters. Our docketing system is staffed with skilled professionals who monitor and manage high-volume patent portfolios at every step that integrates the latest available technology to efficiently maintain and enhance our management of matters entrusted to us.

We routinely advise companies with proven growth technologies and have represented clients for years. The attorneys of Murchison & Cumming’s Intellectual Property Group are committed to strengthening client relationships through the consistent delivery of high-quality, cost-effective legal services.

Intellectual Property Litigation

With decades of combined experience, our Intellectual Property Practice Group provides its clients with a seasoned and experienced approach to problem solving. Our team specializes in litigation and enjoys an impressive history of litigation victories for a distinguished list of corporate clients. The firm is by far one of the most active intellectual property litigation law firms in the nation, having been lead counsel in over 170 patent litigation cases. Our services include investigating, prosecuting and defending claims that are commonly encountered by companies that do business in today’s rapidly-changing world. With an emphasis on practical problem solving, we have done extensive work in the following areas:

Murchison & Cumming, LLP offers a cross-disciplinary team of attorneys who have extensive litigation and transactional experience in the area of intellectual property, including:

  • Patent Litigation
  • Trademark Litigation
  • Lanham Act. Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Trademark Prosecution
  • Trademark Oppositions
  • Advertising Injury
  • Trade Libel
  • Transferring, Licensing, and Securing Intellectual Property Rights
  • Copyright Litigation
  • Counterfeiting
  • Internet Law
  • Cyber-Squatting
  • Trade Secrets

For more information about the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Murchison & Cumming LLP, its attorneys and services, please contact:

Gina E. Och, Chair
213-630-1027