Intellectual Property
IPLG provides intellectual property counsel to founders, public companies, and global brands across the full life of an idea, from filing through enforcement.
Representative clients
IPLG has represented Silicon Valley founders, public companies, and global brands across technology, life sciences, and consumer products for more than two decades.
What we cover
Four IP disciplines
Patents
Strong patents start with strategy, not paperwork. IPLG has prosecuted more than 1,400 patents for Silicon Valley clients across software, hardware, semiconductors, and clean technology, carrying each through U.S. and foreign filing with partner-level review at every decision.
Industries we most often serve: software, semiconductors, hardware systems, clean energy, and life sciences.
- Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches with attorney analysis
- U.S. utility, design, and provisional patent application drafting and prosecution
- PCT filings and national-stage entry through foreign associates in 130+ countries
- Office-action responses, RCEs, examiner interviews, and PTAB appeals
- Portfolio strategy, claim mapping, and licensing or assignment support
Trademarks
A brand is only as protected as the team standing behind it. IPLG has filed more than 5,000 trademark applications since 1998; the partner who files your mark is the partner who defends it.
Industries we most often serve: software, clean energy, consumer brands, and global enterprises entering the U.S. market.
- Clearance searches in the United States and worldwide
- U.S. and Madrid Protocol application preparation and prosecution
- TTAB oppositions, cancellations, office actions, and final-refusal appeals
- Post-registration maintenance, licensing, and brand-extension agreements
- Enforcement, cease-and-desist correspondence, and infringement litigation
Copyright
Software, media, and brand systems are core assets, and we treat them that way. IPLG handles the full life of a copyrighted work, from registration and clean ownership documentation through licensing and federal-court enforcement when it is infringed.
Industries we most often serve: software, media, design, and consumer brands.
- U.S. Copyright Office registration for software, media, and creative works
- Work-for-hire, assignment, and authorship-chain documentation
- License, distribution, and content-syndication agreements
- DMCA notices, counter-notices, and platform-level enforcement
- Federal-court infringement litigation and statutory-damages claims
Trade Secrets
Your most valuable know-how should not walk out the door with a departing employee. IPLG builds the agreements and controls that keep source code, formulas, and customer data protected, and litigates under the DTSA and California's UTSA when that protection is breached.
Industries we most often serve: software, semiconductors, hardware, life sciences, and any company whose personnel hold valuable confidential know-how.
- Trade-secret protection programs, non-disclosure agreements, and access-control policies
- Employment, contractor, and assignment-of-inventions agreements
- Departing-employee investigations and exit protocols
- DTSA and CUTSA litigation, including emergency injunctive relief
- Coordinated handling of overlapping patent, contract, and employment claims
Innovative international IP counsel since 1998.
Patents, trademarks, copyright, and IP litigation for founders, public companies, and global brands. Associates in more than 50 countries support cross-border work.
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