Knoble Yoshida & Dunleavy, LLC specializes in intellectual property law, which includes patents, trademarks, trade dress and Lanham Act issues, copyrights, trade secrets and related business and employment issues.

Our firm strives to provide intellectual property counseling that is carefully tailored to the specific needs and goals of the client. We provide strategies and solutions that optimize the complex and often competing business, technological and legal concerns that are commonly found in businesses that are active in the technology sector. With our guidance, our clients adopt business practices that will maximize their intellectual property assets and reduce the risk of liability with a minimum of cost and disruption to research and development, manufacturing and sales.

We ensure efficient and reliable service, client confidentiality and security as well as convenient access to our professionals with our modern information technology and telecommunications infrastructure. Our well-trained support staff has experience in a wide array of U.S., European and international intellectual property procedures.

U.S. and International Patent Prosecution

The core of our practice involves the strategic preparation, submission, direction and maintenance of patent applications and patents in the United States, the European Union, Japan, China and other important markets throughout the world. Our firm has capabilities that are relatively unique, such as the ability to practice both the United States Patent and Trademark Office and before the European Patent Office and our ability to counsel clients directly and fluently in the Japanese language, as well as in Dutch. Our attorneys and agents include three former members of the examining corps of the United States Patent and Trademark Office and together have successfully prepared and prosecuted thousands of United States and European patents over the past two decades, as well as hundreds of patents and design registrations in other countries.

Our professionals have top academic credentials in both law and technology and have practical and academic backgrounds in such disciplines as engineering, chemistry, biology, physics and computer science. We have consistently demonstrated the ability to understand and protect even the most advanced and esoteric technologies.

Contact us for more information on our patent prosecution services.

U.S. Intellectual Property Litigation and Management

KY&D attorneys also are active in both the enforcement of intellectual property in U.S. courts as well as in the defense of such cases. KY&D has also effectively managed patent litigation in venues across the United States for its corporate and international clients.  We can aid in the selection of local litigation counsel, negotiate preferred rates, provide strategic guidance and also serve as settlement counsel in negotiations with the opposing party.

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Corporate Intellectual Property Counsel Services

KY&D also provides mid-sized clients with outsourced corporate counseling services such as portfolio and litigation management that would otherwise require expensive in-house counsel.   These services include the strategic management of such issues as corporate security management in order to preserve enforceability of trade secrets, employment agreements and restrictive covenants, corporate IP manuals and policies, management of relationships with independent contractors so as to preserve intellectual property rights and periodic industry monitoring for potentially relevant patents and published patent applications.

Contact us for more information on our corporate intellectual property counsel services.

Protection of Industrial Designs

Aesthetic aspects of a commercial product are often worth protecting if they provide a commercial advantage to the manufacturer.  In the United States, industrial designs may be protected inexpensively through the strategic concurrent use of design patents, copyrights and trademarks.

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