A Silicon Valley full-service firm filing and litigating intellectual property, corporate, litigation, customs, and international matters since 1998.
IPLG protects patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets for technology companies, founders, public companies, and global brands. We have prosecuted more than 1,400 patents and filed more than 5,000 trademarks.
We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications across software, hardware, semiconductors, life sciences, and clean technology. We clear, file, and defend trademarks in more than 100 Madrid Protocol jurisdictions. We register and license copyrights for software, content, and brand systems. We counsel on trade-secret programs and litigate IP disputes when they arise.
We counsel companies on the legal issues that affect their formation, financing, and growth.
We form entities, paper seed and venture financings, negotiate commercial and employment agreements, and advise on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate reorganizations. We also provide the board, stockholder, and compliance counsel that operating businesses require between transactions.
We litigate intellectual property infringement, trade secret misappropriation, employment, contractual, and other commercial disputes. We represent plaintiffs and defendants in U.S. district court, before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and at the International Trade Commission.
We also handle arbitration, mediation, neutral evaluation, negotiation, and early settlement. When a matter crosses a border, we coordinate with our foreign associates on parallel proceedings and enforcement.
We represent foreign exporters and producers, U.S. importers, and rights holders in customs enforcement proceedings, anti-dumping investigations, and related trade-remedy matters. We record trademarks and copyrights with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and pursue border enforcement against counterfeit and gray-market goods.
When a seizure, penalty, or duty issue arises, we coordinate the customs response with the client's underlying IP and commercial work.
We advise on international transactions, including international patent and trademark filings, foreign investment, joint ventures, cross-border business contracts, and customs recordation, working with our foreign associates on each matter.
Our foreign-associate network reaches Australia, Canada, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, among others. Our attorneys work in Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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