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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