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The firm represents a diverse group of clients from individuals to Fortune 500 companies who manufacture and sell products from a broad spectrum of technologies, including computer hardware and software, electronics, chemical sciences, applied physics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.
The firm's litigation practice covers all aspects of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, and trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, rights of publicity and unfair competition. The lawyers of Knobbe Martens work diligently to protect their clients' interests in all phases of litigation. The firm's litigators have enjoyed tremendous success in cases that have proceeded through trial. In numerous other cases, Knobbe Martens' litigators have helped clients avoid trial by obtaining preliminary injunctions, or summary judgments, or by negotiating favorable settlements. In addition, the firm's cases have often influenced the courts to decide important legal issues in published opinions. Those decisions and opinions demonstrate unparalleled success before both trial and appellate courts throughout the country.
Knobbe Martens' lawyers are committed to approaching each case with an emphasis on achieving the client's business goals through the litigation process. Thus, the firm assumes whatever litigation role best serves the client. By advising clients on the potential benefits and risks of a lawsuit, the firm's litigators assist their clients in making informed business decisions at every stage of litigation. When a client desires to avoid litigation, the firm creatively explores settlement and alternative dispute resolutions as methods to minimize the clientís risks in litigation.
If a case cannot be settled or won by a dispositive motion, Knobbe Martens pursues the case through trial and appeal. The firm's success rate at trial, and in recovering lawyer's fees from opposing parties, demonstrates an ability to advise clients prudently as to whether a case should be settled or taken to trial.
Because Knobbe Martens' litigators focus their practice on intellectual property disputes, they are specialists in this area of the law. Furthermore, many also have experience prosecuting and licensing patents, trademarks and copyrights. In addition, the vast majority of the firm's litigators have undergraduate or even graduate degrees in engineering, the physical or life sciences, or computer science. Virtually all Knobbe Martens' lawyers are admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
In addition, prior to joining the firm, many of the lawyers served as law clerks for federal judges, including several judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. This court has exclusive, nationwide appellate jurisdiction over patent cases, as well as appeals from Federal District Courts and from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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