Fish’s track record in forming customized teams that understand our clients’ industries and technologies, along with our collaborative, one-firm concept, means we are uniquely positioned to handle complex matters across multiple fronts.
Services
Our recipe for success? Top attorneys with a tech-savvy, singular focus on IP.
We are a full-service intellectual property firm. Litigation, post-grant, trademark, copyright, and patent work consumes our days.
IP is all we do, and we do it well, from start to finish. Our attorneys hail from premier law schools and boast impressive technical backgrounds. With nearly 150 years of experience, we have amassed an amazing storehouse of knowledge, and lessons learned from one matter inform our handling of others. We like it, we are good at it, and our clients expect it.
- Litigation
- Patent Litigation
- Trademark, Copyright & Media Litigation
- Trade Secret Litigation
- Appellate
- ITC Litigation & Section 337
- Standard Essential Patents
- Chancery & Corporate Governance
- Post-Grant
- Inter Partes Review
- Post-Grant Review
- Ex Parte Reexamination
- Supplemental Examination
- Patent
- Patent Prosecution
- Strategic Patent Counseling & Opinions
- Patent Portfolio Management
- Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court
- IP Licensing, Transactions & Agreements
- Trademark & Copyright Counseling & Prosecution
- Strategic Counseling, Registration & Opinions
- Advertising & Marketing
- Domain Names & Internet
- TTAB Oppositions & Cancellations
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act
- Transactions & Agreements
- Regulatory & Government Affairs
- Communications & Spectrum Regulation
- Drug & Medical Device Regulation
- mHealth & Telemedicine
- Privacy & Data Security
Because IP is our primary focus, we can dig deeply into patent law in ways other firms simply can’t.
A strong patent strategy requires more than just patent prosecution. Our Patent Group handles every step of the product life cycle, from research and development through building a portfolio to taking a product to market. We offer:
- Strategic intellectual property counseling
- Validity, infringement, and freedom-to-operate opinions
- Patent portfolio planning, analysis, and development
- Licensing, transactions, and agreements
- Patent due diligence
- Post-grant proceedings
Fish’s IP litigation practice dominates in every venue.
Fish & Richardson scores more high-profile wins across the board in U.S. district court, the International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board than any other IP firm. Our success is rooted in our deep fluency in every technology area imaginable, our robust industry knowledge, and our strategic and tenacious problem-solving abilities.
We win many of the largest IP cases, worth billions of dollars and often with whole businesses on the line. That is why the world’s most innovative companies trust Fish—over any other firm—to handle their mission-critical IP litigation. Our deep experience across all the courts that hear IP matters makes us uniquely qualified to integrate district court litigation, appellate work, ITC matters, and PTAB cases in multijurisdictional strategies that achieve clients’ objectives.
At the appellate level, Fish is the go-to firm for the increasing number of complex IP appeals that involve precedent-setting and industry-changing legal and technical issues. Not only do our clients stick with us when an appeal is necessary, but we are often hired to handle appeals in cases other firms have lost.
We help our clients protect their key assets and stay ahead in the marketplace.
The most successful companies build brands and content that stand out from the crowd. Fish helps our clients identify protectable assets – including brand names, logos, slogans, and works of authorship of every variety – and obtain the appropriate protection for them, monetize them in the marketplace, and protect them from infringement. Regardless of a company’s size, we pursue comprehensive trademark and copyright strategies that take into account the company’s long-term objectives and budget.
For our trademark clients, we take all steps necessary to register, maintain, and enforce their marks worldwide. After registration, we monitor their trademarks for infringement and enforce their rights against infringers. We also advise our clients regarding advertising, marketing, and brand management issues.
Our comprehensive trademark services include:
- Strategic counseling, registration, and opinions
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Oppositions and cancellations
- Due diligence for mergers and acquisitions
- Licensing agreements
- Domain names and internet enforcement
- Trade dress counseling, development, protection, and enforcement
- Portfolio audits
- Anti-counterfeiting investigations and related litigation
- Watch services and enforcement
We monetize IP while minimizing risk.
Attorneys in our IP Licensing, Transactions, & Agreements Group routinely handle more than 100 different types of IP and technology agreements. We also provide due diligence and other IP-based support to various transactions, including asset purchase agreements and M&A deals. Our attorneys provide world-class counsel and strategic input in these areas via a unique combination of skill sets: a deep understanding of the underlying technology, significant business acumen, and mastery of the applicable law.
We assist our clients with IP licensing, transactions, and agreements through a variety of counseling, such as:
- Counseling: ensuring that we understand the full scope of clients’ objectives and how we can help to achieve them
- Development: laying the groundwork for deals through IP audits, competitor landscape assessment, and due diligence
- Drafting: drafting new agreements from scratch or working with existing documents to develop executable definitive agreements.
- Negotiation: supporting clients to direct negotiations and obtain the most favorable terms possible
- Enforcement: protecting our clients’ interests by investigating potential breaches, issuing demand letters, and pursuing legal remedies
We help our clients meet a broad range of regulatory objectives.
Fish attorneys work closely with their clients to achieve and maintain market access for their goods, to limit potential exposure to liability, to maximize business opportunities, and to help manage crisis situations.
Our regulatory practice provides counseling related to:
- Communications and spectrum regulation
- Drug and medical device regulation
- mHealth and telemedicine
- Privacy and data security
- Advertising and marketing
Our regulatory attorneys have experience practicing before a wide range of federal agencies, including the following:
- Federal Communications Commission
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration
- Food and Drug Administration
- Department of State/Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
- Department of Commerce/Bureau of Industry and Security
- Department of the Treasury/Office of Foreign Assets Control
- Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Department of Defense
- Department of Homeland Security/US Customs and Border Protection
- Federal Trade Commission
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Department of Labor/Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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