Howson & Howson’s Engineering practice group serves start-up ventures and small companies, universities and non-profits, through Fortune 500 companies.
Industries served include manufacturing, electrical, automotive, consumer goods, medical, food service, and aeronautics. Whether a company is well established and pursuing a new invention or product line, or is in the early stages of evaluating technology and developing its business, our team has extensive experience with assisting companies in overcoming IP challenges at all stages of development.
All professionals on our team are registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Our attorneys have bar admissions in a number of state and federal jurisdictions, including the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. Each practitioner brings a unique background by education, training, and practice, including degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering.
The group has helped register and protect:
- Apparel and textile production and products
- Automotive parts
- Boilers
- Cable TV equipment
- Computer components and software
- Construction materials
- Copper foils, sputtering targets, semiconductors, metallic powders, & cathode materials
- Earth drilling / mining
- Flow cytometry
- Fuel gauging systems for airplanes
- Hermetically sealed electrical feedthroughs, battery terminals, sapphire optical products, and vision analysis systems
- Medical/surgical devices
- Metallurgical materials and products
- Mobile devices
- Musical instruments
- Non-ferrous resources and materials
- Pharmaceutical packaging
- Pressure testing equipment
- Product packaging
- Sporting equipment
- Springs for industrial and point of purchase applications
- Surgical lighting
- Textiles and machinery
We provide a range of services directed to the intellectual property needs of companies focusing in these technologies.
Intellectual property law services include:
- Patent procurement (prosecution)
- Early stage patentability assessments
- Validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate opinions
- Due diligence inquiries
- Asset transfer
- Portfolio evaluation in connection with insuring of royalty streams, bankruptcies, and other transactions
- Trademark/service mark registrability
- Clearance opinions
- Foreign filing strategy and coordination/oversight
