Osborn Maledon's technology and intellectual property practice is a multi-disciplinary approach that combines the efforts of our firm's business and litigation lawyers with an emphasis on serving the needs of sophisticated business clients. We assist our clients in acquiring, exploiting and disposing of proprietary assets and businesses, and in aggressively protecting proprietary positions and defending against intellectual property rights claims of others.

Representative Matters

• negotiating and drafting a wide variety of technology agreements including purchase, sale, license, lease, distribution, research and development, supply, contract manufacturing, confidentiality and joint venture agreements;

• counseling a large number of small-to-medium size high technology companies involved in diverse fields;

• representing numerous companies in acquiring, leasing and licensing computer hardware and software;

• representing numerous software developers in licensing their products;

• representing companies in a variety of fields in technology rights litigation, including patents, copyrights, trade secrets and trademark infringement, as well as licensing disputes;

• representing a national venture capital company in the health care industry in a $225 million suit over the rights to biotechnology patents and trade secrets;

• defending a leading manufacturer of household cleaning products in a dispute over competitive television advertisements;

• representing acquirers of technology companies and/or product lines