Practice
Areas
Fliesler Meyer establishes long-term
relationships with our clients. These close
relationships facilitate the development of broad-based, quality
intellectual property portfolios for our clients.
We become familiar with the specific business and
technology of our clients. This knowledge is often
obtained directly through working closely with
principals of the organization and through the
preparation and prosecution of patents and
trademarks for our clients.
The technical sophistication of our attorneys
enables us to work closely and comfortably with
client inventors on their technical level. Our
expertise in patent law and our understanding of the
business of high-technology companies supports our
ability to devise comprehensive strategies to
protect our clients' technologies.
Our practice of
intellectual property law is international in
scope. We serve clients and
coordinate activities throughout the United States, the
Asian Pacific Rim, the European Community, and
Canada.
Fliesler Meyer provides a full range of intellectual
property services including:
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Identifying and
managing clients' intellectual property matters
(assets, liabilities and procedures);
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Counseling clients in the
development and implementation of business and legal
strategies for obtaining and protecting patents,
copyrights, trademarks, mask works, trade secrets and
other intellectual property rights;
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Working with clients
to develop business and legal strategies for
trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other
intellectual property;
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Conducting non-infringement and
invalidity analysis on behalf of our
clients;
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Advising clients on procedures
for, and adequacy of, avoidance of potentially valid
patents through technical
design-around;
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Negotiating, preparing,
administering and enforcing intellectual property
agreements and transfers (licenses, technology
transfers, foundry agreements, assignments and similar
matters);
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Preparing and prosecuting patents, trademark and
copyright applications in the United States and
throughout the world, including all phases of
advanced prosecution such as patent appeals,
re-examinations and interferences;
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Providing
technically detailed opinions regarding the
infringement, validity and avoidance of patents;
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Rendering opinions regarding
infringement, validity, and value and cost of patent,
copyright, trademark and other intellectual property
rights;
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Performing preliminary trademark
screening and comprehensive pre-registration clearance
searches for corporate, product, service and product
family marks; and
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Litigating, arbitrating and
resolving intellectual property disputes in state and
federal courts.
Patents
The
diverse and
advanced technical knowledge of our attorneys
is exemplified by all the issued patents
from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office ("USPTO") in the following technologies:
For
a sample of the firm's
patent work, please click on
"Refine Search" at this USPTO
link, and allow a few seconds for all firm patents to load and
display.
Trademarks
Below is a sample of the
firm's trademark work:
ABLE MINDS (on-line multimedia magazines)
AIRFLASH (computer software)
AMB (global acquisition/development of
industrial real estate)
BMA (medical
association)
BROTHERS (beer and ale)
CAFÉ BISCOTTI (cookies)
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER (health care
services)
CONNER (computer equipment)
EARTH SAVER (straw wattles)
ELANTEC (analog amplifier integrated circuits)
FOODSAVER (vacuum packaging machines for food
preservation)
FZIOMED (pharmaceutical
preparations)
GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS (travel services)
JEREMY COHEN VIOLINJAZZ (music composition and
entertainment)
KAKUTA (metal clamps)
MIGO (mobile computing software)
NECTAR COLLECTOR (board games)
OXIPLEX (fluids/gels/films for preventing
adhesion and scar tissue)
PATEMM PAD (baby changing article)
PHRAZE-IT (computer software)
PICOPAD (miniature writing tablets)
POWER WIN! (educational services)
SAFTI (fire and safety rated glass)
SANAFOAM (chemical foaming agent)
SUPER CITRIMAX (nutritional preparations/chemical
compounds)
TATTOO
(consumer branding)
TRINITY PROPERTIES (real estate)
U-PAD (thermoformed plastic packaging)
X STOP (surgical implants)
Below is a sample of the firm's litigation
work:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Alliance
Semiconductor
Co-counsel for Advanced Micro
Devices: patent infringement for fundamental flash memory architecture
AMD v. Altera Corporation
Co-counsel for AMD - patent infringement for complex
programmable logic devices
AMD v. Brooktree Corporation
Co-counsel for AMD - patent infringement for method of
fabricating semiconductor devices
AMD v. Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor v. AMD
Co-counsel
for AMD - patent infringement for complex
programmable logic devices
AMD v. Gazelle Microelectronics
Samsung v. AMD
AMD v. Atmel Corporation
AMD v. Cypress Semiconductor
Co-counsel for AMD
- patent infringement for programmable logic device
AMD v. Hyundai Electronics America
Co-counsel for AMD - trade secrets - flash memory
technology and architecture
Brooktree Corporation v. AMD
Co-counsel
for AMD - patent and mask work infringements for
color palette chips (first case tried under the
Semiconductor Chip Protection Act)
Conner Peripherals v. Western Digital
Western Digital v. Conner Peripherals
IBM v. Conner Peripherals
Co-counsel for Conner
Peripherals - patent infringement for various architectural,
mechanical and electrical disk drive technologies
Data East USA v. Epyx
Counsel
for Data East USA - trademark
and copyright infringements for video game
technology (obtained injunction that was appealed to the United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
Datrek v. Encompass
Trial counsel for plaintiff - action
for ownership of mainframe banking software
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. v. Harlequin, Inc.,
Compose Systems, Inc., et al
Counsel
for Compose Systems - patent infringement for color printer and RIP technology
Franklin Computer v. Central Point Software
Counsel for
Central Point - software copyright for breach of contract
Hilgraeve Corporation v. Symantec Corporation
Counsel
for Symantec - patent infringement for anti-virus software products
IPLearn LLC v. Ask Jeeves, Inc.
Counsel for
IPLearn - patent infringement for natural-language method for answering
questions
Maxim Integrated Products v. Teledyne Semiconductor
Counsel for Teledyne - patent infringement for linear
integrated circuit devices and counterclaims against
Maxim for false designation of origin, unfair
competition and dilution
North Star Computers v. Servio Logic Corp.
Counsel for Servio Logic
- misappropriation of trade secrets and employee
raiding
Pure Software v. Platinum Technology, Inc.
Counsel for
Platinum - patent infringement for software tools for detecting memory
access errors
PCPC v. Symantec Corporation
Counsel
for Symantec - patent infringement for network backup software
P.L.C. v. Conner Peripherals
Counsel for
Conner Peripherals - patent infringement for disk drive
technology
SyQuest Technology v. Micro Storage
As counsel for SyQuest
Technology - misappropriation of disk drive technology
Telecommunications Technology v. Wiltron
Counsel for Wiltron - misappropriation of trade
secrets and patent infringement for telecommunications test
equipment
Trend v. Symantec Corporation and McAfee Corporation
Counsel for Symantec - patent
infringement for anti-virus software products
UltraPure v. HTC and Kinetic Systems, Inc.
Counsel for Kinetic Systems - trademark infringement and
trade secret misappropriation for ultra-high purity
semiconductor processing equipment fittings
Wiltron v. Hewlett-Packard
Counsel
for Wiltron - patent infringement for vector network analyzer microwave
test equipment
Wiltron v. Microsource
Counsel for
Wiltron - patent infringement for YIG oscillators
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