The computer industry depends on constant innovation. Many hardware and software businesses therefore aggressively seek to protect their competitive advantage through patents, trademarks, and copyrights. In technology, today’s inventions truly are tomorrow’s products, and protecting tomorrow’s products is the same as protecting the business itself.
At Kolisch Hartwell, our high-tech clients rely on us to help them identify future IP, obtain it, manage it, and if necessary defend it. Many of our high-tech clients see their ongoing IP program as a core business. As shown in our portfolio, technologies of interest to our clients have included:
- Business applications
- Computer and network security
- Computer architecture and systems
- Computer logic circuits and memory systems
- Data compression/decompression and encryption/decryption
- Data structures
- Digital signal processing and data processing
- Entertainment and gaming systems
- Graphical user interfaces and ergonomic keyboards
- Internet-based systems
- Multimedia systems
- Networks and network bandwidth management
- Neural networks
- Processor-based controllers
- Risk management
- Software-controlled processes.
If you or your business develops computer-related systems, we can search the state of the art to help you track your competitors, identify trends, and find niches worth pursuing. And we can help you evaluate your designs with an eye to reducing risk of infringement. Sometimes, an easy design change early in the development cycle can greatly reduce risks downstream. And naturally we can draft patents and prosecute patent applications designed to pull their weight in your IP portfolio.
Kolisch Hartwell attorneys practicing in this area have degrees and/or experience in computer science, electrical or electronic engineering, semiconductors, and other technologies crucial to our high-tech clients. Our attorneys can talk to your developers with first-hand knowledge because some of them have been developers themselves.