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A 21st century enterprise is increasingly dependent on the strength of its intangible assets – trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyrights, licenses and business processes. At Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, we use our own intangible assets – the knowledge and skills of our lawyers – to understand the intellectual property of our clients. We work actively with our clients to identify their IP and IT-based assets and vigorously protect the value that they represent.
RECENT MATTERS
- Successful defense through appeal of patent infringement and trade secret suit that threatened to destroy the multi-national corporation’s multi-million dollar investment
- Creation of strategy to protect patent rights against multiple infringers, and prosecution of first action to favorable settlement
- Aggressive defense of original equipment manufacturer against successive claims of copyright and trademark infringement by one of the world's largest software developers
- Prosecution of defective software action in arbitration to successful settlement on behalf of a multi-national client who had purchased an enterprise-critical software system for handling client's product development know-how
- Favorable settlement of client’s claim that its customer was violating the license terms for client’s proprietary inventory-control and order-processing supply chain software
- Successful defense of scholarly non-profit against copyright infringement claim by major university regarding unpublished first novel manuscript of important author, in significant Fourth Circuit fair use case
- Representation of architects and construction firms, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in a series of Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act cases
- Successful prosecution of numerous trademark registration applications, and litigation of such registrations in courts and before Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
- Negotiation on behalf of several clients of multiple software license agreements in the insurance industry
- Advice to research universities on technology transfer and commercialization
- Negotiation of multi-million dollar technology acquisition from multiple vendors and licensors on behalf of nonprofit consortium of research institutions, hospitals, and regional healthcare systems
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