SERVICES

Intellectual Property

LFM Firm advises clients and provides expert consulting services on many aspects of intellectual property, including:

Licensing and negotiations. Licensing intellectual property improves businesses by generating revenue streams and facilitating expansion into new markets. For intellectual property owners, LFM Firm’s legal, technical, and business experience helps clients to design and operate licensing and enforcement programs and otherwise capitalize on their intellectual property. LFM Firm’s experience also helps clients to negotiate and secure intellectual property licenses needed to operate or expand their business.

Standard-essential patents. Implementing a standardized technology, such as WiFi, 5G cellular connectivity, or HEVC video encoding, necessarily uses the inventions of many patents. These “standard-essential patents” are typically subject to licensing commitments to ensure that licenses are available on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and present many unique issues due to the overlap of intellectual property, contract, and antitrust legal issues. LFM Firm advises its clients on all aspects of standard-essential patents.

Strategy. Balancing the need to ensure that products and innovations have strong intellectual property protection while working within a fixed budget is a critical business consideration. LFM Firm’s work in this area may involve a review of existing intellectual property assets, recommendations to license, sell, or abandon those assets, and planning to grow intellectual property protection for the future.

Due diligence. Proactively identifying and evaluating intellectual property rights of others may allow your company to avoid future liability or business disruption. LFM Firm can help clients assess intellectual property risks in connection with in-bound licensing demands, before launching a new product, or before an acquisition.

Valuation. Determining the monetary value of intellectual property can be a crucial step for commercial intellectual property agreements. Valuation is also a critical issue in intellectual property disputes. LFM Firm has extensive experience assessing the value of intellectual property in many technology areas. 

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alternative dispute resolution offers an efficient, cost-effective, and impartial way of resolving a dispute. A principal from the LFM Firm can act as a mediator or arbitrator in any type of intellectual property or commercial dispute. LFM Firm also provides mediator services on a pro bono basis when one or both parties cannot afford to pay.