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Patent Practice

Cook Alex Patent Practice is dedicated to protecting, enforcing, defending and maximizing clients’ ideas, creativity, and innovations in virtually every industry and technology. Our Firm’s Patent Practice has been involved in the issuance of thousands of patents covering a broad sweep of engineering, medical systems & devices, and science. Further, Cook Alex Patent Practice has successfully represented clients from individual inventors to Fortune 500 companies.

Cook Alex's Patent Practice

Cook Alex’s Patent Practice provides the following patent services to clients:

  • Protecting
    • Counseling on patent protection and litigation avoidance
    • Performing prior art analysis to determine patentability and potential infringement
    • Drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and abroad
    • Performing inter-party proceedings

  • Enforcing & Defending
    • Counseling on patent enforcement
    • Resolving patent license disputes and avoiding adversely-held patents
    • Litigating patent infringement

  • Maximizing
    • Counseling on maximizing patent portfolio value
    • Providing clearance opinions
    • Providing opinions on validity, enforceability, and infringement issues
    • Drafting and negotiating technology licenses and cross-licenses and technology transfer agreements
    • Drafting patents for integration into technology standards
    • Drafting confidentiality agreements
    • Counseling and due diligence associated with acquisitions and divestitures
    • Advising on Hatch-Waxman matters