Patent Services

At Adelate IP Law Group, APPLYING WISDOM TO WONDER®  is our business mission statement and dedicated corporate lifestyle.  We sincerely believe and are firmly committed to providing our clients with creatively insightful and personalized involvement in every step of the patent legal process.   

With our intimate familiarity with Silicon Valley world-class standards for software development, engineering, and scientific concepts, combined with our expert knowledge of patent law, we can effectively work with our clients on their technical level to identify what type of intellectual property protection is required.  We strive to provide each client with value-added, working knowledge of those concepts of Intellectual Property Law that are required for making key decisions for their respective businesses. 

At times, a blueprint for business success in Silicon Valley often depends on the acquired skills of a legal professional to quickly and accurately identify those inventive concepts that are best suited for the direct needs of the marketplace and the type of intellectual property protection that is needed to provide maxim benefit.  In many ways, we work closely together with our clients in selecting from the various types of available intellectual property just as artists select colors from a painters’ palate so as to create an innovative masterpiece that can succeed in they many business venues throughout the world.

With exceptional communication and tech skills, our patent attorneys in our patent services company are able to work well within your multidisciplinary team. These teams can include software developers, business executives, case litigation managers and witnesses, forensic accountants, marketing managers as well as engineers, scientists, inventors, artists and entertainers.  

We work with your from the 1st phone call and discussion of the invention idea, to filing a patent at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and following the patenting process through to being granted a registered patent. We will protect your registered intellectual property with our skilled patent filing and prosecution

We believe that the Client is our Boss – Let Us APPLY WISDOM TO YOUR WONDER!

Patent Services

A patent is an essential business asset in our 21^st Century global information-based economy.  Obtaining an issued patent is often difficult, time-consuming, costly, and not always a guarantee.  Although one particular idea may solve an existing problem, not all innovation merits patent protection as a legal requirement.  Our principal patent services are:

• Preparation of Patent Applications and prosecution within the government Patent Office
• Filing a patent
• Patent Infringement and Invalidity Opinions
• Patent Filings of foreign origin patents
• Patent License, Assignment & Negotiation
• International Patent Applications

Representative Areas of Patent Prosecution

• Artificial Intelligence; Blockchain and decentralized computing; Big Data and Data Engineering; Software Architectures & Computing systems; Cryptographic and Security Systems. 
• Fintech – Software based financial technology and security systems.
• Wireless Networks; Telecom & Mobile Devices; Wafer fab and materials.
• Electrical Engineering systems
• Engineering Systems:
  • Robotics and autonomous systems;
  • Large scale machine design including transportation – automotive, aerospace, avionics;
  • Medical Devices; Informatics,
  • Telemedicine & Cloud-based HIPPA Software Architecture;
  • Oil & Gasfield including Upstream/ E&P systems, Downstream refinement and retail systems, SADA, oilfield services including wireline, disposal and reclamation systems; wind and solar energy systems; and biofuels.

Copyright Services:

• Copyright registration of source, object code and other software applications.
• Works Made-For-Hire Issues
• Video Game, Artistic and Entertainment development issues
• Social Media & Website Issues
• Publisher Agreements & Royalty Issues
• US & Foreign enforcement of the reproduction of key creative work business assets such as
  • software, multimedia presentations,
  • web and landing pages,
  • advertising art & copy,
  • training manuals and organizational charts,
  • book –video-audio and performing art works

Trademark Services:

• Trademark Enforcement & Litigation Matters – enforcement against competitors who use another’s mark to capitalize on that “name recognition”:  Likelihood of Confusion and Federal Trademark Dilution Act.
• Federal, State, and Foreign registrations of words, designs, slogans, sounds or symbols that serve to identify a particular product or service offered by a business
• Trade dress vs Design Patent – legal strategies for webpages, software applications, packaging and other marketing media
• Legal Protection for Business Branding and Marketing Campaigns
• Domain Name and Trademark Issues