Knoble Yoshida & Dunleavy,
LLC is an internationally oriented intellectual property law firm that is
headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm serves a diverse international
clientele including prominent multinational corporations, academic institutions,
governmental bodies as well as mid-sized and smaller businesses and institutions. The firm practices
directly before the United States and European Patent Offices and works closely
with affiliate firms in Europe and other countries such as Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea and China to effectively
and strategically procure, maintain and enforce its client's intellectual property
assets worldwide in a cost-efficient manner. Our attorneys and agents have successfully
prosecuted thousands of intellectual property matters in the United States and in various countries throughout
the world.
With the recent deterioration of the world's economy, we believe that
it is more important than ever to provide legal services that are not
only of the highest quality but that provide excellent value to our
clients. While our attorneys
possess academic backgrounds and qualifications that are
equivalent to or superior to those at the most expensive law
firms, our fees tend to be significantly lower. We also have the
flexibility to offer patent prosecution services at fixed rates and to
provide volume discounts to clients that use our services on a frequent
basis.
Three of our attorneys are former patent examiners at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. One of our partners is a registered European Patent attorney. One of our partners is fluent in Japanese and is particularly skilled at providing opinions and related counseling to large multinational Japanese corporations.
Our practice
often involves providing our clients with guidance as to how to
effectively and economically enforce intellectual property rights in
the U.S. Courts system as well as how to best defend such cases.
We conduct as well as manage patent litigation in venues
throughout the United States. We are also well suited to serve as
independent settlement counsel for our
corporate and international clients in order to facilitate a swift and
economical resolution to disputes that are in the process of
adjudication.
KY&D has an active counseling practice in which we provide guidance
to our clients on how to optimize their intellectual property rights in
a manner that makes business sense as well as how to avoid infringing
the rights of competitors. This may include evaluating the
potential patentability of new inventions, providing opinions based on
patent clearance searches and providing our clients with opinions on
the risk that may be posed by patents that are owned by others.
We have particular expertise in advising our clients on how to use patents, copyrights and trademarks concurrently to protect commercial product designs.
The firm also provides its mid-sized clients with the ability to
economically outsource corporate counseling services such as portfolio
and litigation management that would otherwise require
expensive in-house
counsel. KY&D's corporate counsel services includes
the management of
such issues such as the appropriate level of corporate security
that is required to
preserve enforceability of trade secrets, employment agreements and
restrictive covenants that protect the company against predatory hiring
of key employees by competitors, relationships with independent
contractors so as to preserve intellectual property rights and periodic
industry
monitoring for potentially relevant patents and published patent
applications.
Our offices in Center City Philadelphia are centrally located
to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia and the
major urban centers of eastern North America such as New York, Washington/Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
Boston and Toronto.
Our offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands are conveniently located
close to the European Patent Office Branch at The Hague, Netherlands.
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