Legal: Intellectual Property
Technical Experts in Support Intellectual Property Attorneys
CECON Group has excelled in providing appropriate and experienced professionals to law firms for patent prosecution, infringement and defense.
Experts are available for researching prior art, writing patents and claims, translating patents and defending patents. A CECON specialist will work with you to find the best technical expert to help you win your case.
Patents and Trade Secret Case Histories
Following is a short selection of patent and trade secret case histories demonstrating the breadth of CECON's technical support for attorneys.
Assistance in trade secret litigation, including visits to industrial sites, sorting through regulatory public access documentations, and court testimony on the question of what is a technology trade secret versus openly available knowledge.
A chemical company acquired more than 5,000 patents in a merger. A panel of CECON Consulting Group experts evaluated these, determining which areas of technology had the strongest protection. The panel identified several new business opportunities supported by strong patent positions.
An expert in infrared technology examined evidence in a multi-million dollar patent infringement suit, and gave testimony crucial to winning the case.
~A specialist in rheology showed with calculations that a competitive patent was invalid because of prior art. This work led to an out-of-court settlement satisfactory to our client.
CECON supplied two consultants who testified as experts in a patent suit on a contested structure of a herbicide. The consultants employed several spectroscopic techniques to defend the structure and win the case.
In a patent infringement case, a silicone polymer expert reviewed opposition's technical expert report, conducted lab testing and submitted his report leading to a favorable out-of-court settlement.
A CECON expert in plastics compounding did a technical audit of a licensee of our client. The surprise audit showed that the licensee was complying with the patent license.
A complex semiconductor circuit patent was turned down by the patent office because the examiner claimed it could not be understood and constructed by persons having skill in the art. The CECON expert's declaration that he could understand the patent and construct the device convinced the examiner to issue the patent.
CECON supplied a metallurgical consultant in a patent infringement case involving nickel-titanium memory shape alloys. He was instrumental in assisting the attorneys in developing the strategy of their case.
Recent Patent Support for Attorneys
Patent Licensing arrangement with two large companies
Patent litigation, semiconductors
Handling sale of electronic patents for Korea
Patent litigation, film orientation
Patent infringement, telephone switchgear
Patent infringement, shrink films
Patent infringement, wire & cable
Patent interference, exercise machine
Patent infringement, rechargeable battery
Reverse engineering
Contract dispute, sale of patents and technology
Literature search, cervical collars
Patent, trade secret litigation, in-line film coating
Patent infringement, Alzheimer drugs
Declaration, methods of making semiconductors
Licensing patents in the optical disk field
Patent infringement, tire curing
Patent infringement, orthopedic bandages
Preliminary patent search for infringement
Patent infringement, paper pulp machine
Patent case, viscous fluid separation
Opto-electronics patent application
Patent infringement, azo dyes for food
Some of the Law Firms We Have Served
Arnold Matheny & Egan, Orlando, FL
Abrahams Loenstein & Bushman, Philadelphia, PA
Arnold White & Durkee, Houston, TX
Baratta & Fenerty, Philadelphia, PA
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, OH
Berkowitz Schagrin Coonin & Cooper, Wilmington, DE
Brown Hudgens & Richardson, Mobile, AL
Brumbaugh Graves Donohur & Raymond, Washington, DC
Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, New York, NY
Connelly Bove Lodge & Hutz, Wilmington, DE
Davis Hoxie Faithful & Hapgood, New York, NY
Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA
Elzufon Austin & Drexler, Wilmington, DE
Fish & Neave, New York, NY
Hopgood Calimafde Kalil & Judlow, New York, NY
Howrey Simon Aronld & White, Menlo Park, CA
Israelson Salsbury Clements & Bekman, Baltimore, MD
Jackson & Campbell, Washington, DC
Kenyon & Kenyon, New York, NY
Lord Bissell & Brook, Chicago, IL
Martin Clearwater & Bell, New York, NY
McCann & Mailey, Wilmington, DE
Miles & Stockbridge, Rockville, MD
Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, PA
Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE
Pricket Jones Elliot Kristol & Schnee, Wilmington, DE
Schlusser Reiver Hughes & Sisk, Wilmington, DE
Stephens Davis Miller & Mosher, Alexandria, VA
Trask Britt & Rossa, Salt Lake City, UT
Wood Heron & Evans, Cincinnati, OH
Woodard Emhardt Naughton Moriarty & McNatt, Indianapolis IN
Woodcock Washburn, Philadelphia, PA