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Ideas Need Protection.
At Carstens & Cahoon, our dedicated
team of registered patent attorneys,
trademark professionals, and patent
agents understands how to help
ideas prosper. We understand that
innovation is a business investment
that must be developed. We
understand that protecting your
intellectual property assets is the first
step in doing that. And we understand
how that is done.
It’s done through technical knowledge
and legal expertise, through a balance
of aggressive pursuit and cost efficiency,
through the effective use of proper legal
tools and in-depth analysis, and through
working with you to understand your
business goals and how intellectual
property helps you achieve them.
We understand that, at times, protecting
ideas requires an entire team of dedicated
professionals. We’re large enough to
handle patent and trademark prosecution
and litigation of a grand scale, yet small
enough to ensure partner involvement in
each and every case. We can dedicate
enormous resources to projects that
warrant extra attention, particularly during
the time-intensive phases of litigation.
At the same time, we’re a prosecution
powerhouse—filing hundreds of patent and
trademark applications per year.
Yet, unlike large multi-disciplinary firms,
our attorneys are dedicated to one thing—
helping clients navigate the intellectual
property legal system. Our organizational
structure ensures appropriate interaction
between business staff, engineers,
technical advisors, patent attorneys, and
our firm’s partners—providing you with
access to years of intellectual property
experience with just one phone call.
With the resources of a large firm and
the focus and personalized service of a
boutique, Carstens & Cahoon is dedicated
to protecting your ideas.
Carstens & Cahoon. Dedicated to Protecting Ideas.®
Dedicated Knowledge. Dedicated Resources.
The seeds of invention often require protection from the weather of today’s global competition. Carstens & Cahoon offers both the legal expertise and technical insight needed for ideas to prosper. We help our clients protect their intellectual property rights before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the International Trade Commission,
and state and federal courts.
PROSECUTION
Carstens & Cahoon has extensive
experience in obtaining patents, copyrights,
and trademarks in fields as diverse as
aviation, business methods, computer
hardware and software, food technology,
medical devices, oil field and mining
equipment, and telecommunications. The
firm prides itself in providing thorough
protection for its clients with a deliberate
combination of efficiency and tenacity.
LITIGATION The attorneys at Carstens & Cahoon bring
a high level of command and competence
to the courtroom and have litigated
many patent, trademark, copyright,
and trade secret infringement suits. The
firm’s arguments regarding validity and
infringement have been instrumental in
achieving favorable settlements for our
clients. When settlement is not possible, our
firm has the manpower and trial experience
to vigorously pursue litigation through jury
verdict.
COUNSELING
Our attorneys offer a solid background in
providing sound counseling patent on both
infringement and validity. We regularly
conduct infringement, validity, and due
diligence studies in response to cease-and-
desist letters or in advance of litigation.
Additionally, our comprehensive right-to-
use opinions are frequently used in the
preliminary stages of investment decisions.
Furthermore, our patent lawyers routinely
assist clients in developing, marketing,
managing, and enforcing patent portfolios
both in the US and internationally.
Our attorneys are not merely lawyers. They are also scientists, engineers, and computer programmers.
Their diverse technical education and
training enables them to short-circuit the
learning curve on a wide spectrum of
technologies, giving our attorneys more time
to spend on what they do best—protecting
clients’ innovations.
At Carstens & Cahoon, we focus on
technology-related industries where our core
competencies have been built through
hands-on experience and technical training.
These industries include aviation, chemical
processing, computer software, computer
hardware, cosmetics, digital signal
processing, drilling equipment, food
technology, medical devices, semiconductor
processing, and telecommunications. By
focusing on key market segments, we can
concentrate our resources to provide faster,
smarter, better-implemented solutions for our
clients.
Our dedication to staying current on
ever-changing technology helps us better
protect technology-based ideas.
Dedicated to Understanding Diverse Technology.
In a world where a company’s
equity is more and more often being
determined by its intellectual property
portfolio rather than by its fixed
assets, protecting your ideas takes on
a new level of importance. Now, your
ideas have become your business.
As you cultivate your intellectual property
portfolio, C&C is poised to help you protect
it through legal means appropriate in scale,
effectiveness, and cost. We are dedicated
to working with you—within your budget
and timeline—to establish a strategic
intellectual property program that converts
ideas into assets to help your business grow.
Dedicated to Growing Business.
Dedicated to Intellectual Property.
We are intellectual property attorneys
dedicated to helping our clients with
all of their intellectual property needs.
Our services include:
PATENTS
• Patent prosecution
• Patent litigation
• Post-grant patent review
• Validity and infringement analysis
• Patent portfolio evaluation
• Patent portfolio management
• Patent brokerage
• Patent licensing
TRADEMARKS
• Trademark applications and counsel
• Trademark litigation and dispute resolution
• Trademark oppositions and cancellations
• Trademark clearance opinions
• Trademark licensing
• Domain name disputes
COPYRIGHTS
• Copyright registration
• Copyright litigation
• Copyright licensing
• Work-for-hire agreements
TRADE SECRETS
• Employment agreements
• Confidentiality agreements
• License agreements
• Trade secret enforcement and litigation
• Trade secret inventory analysis
TECHNOLOGY-RELATED TRANSACTIONS
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Technology transfer agreements
• Invention disclosure programs
• Intellectual property licensing
• Intellectual property evaluation
• Intellectual property due diligence
• Software development agreements
• Development agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
To find out more about how we provide the
shelter ideas need, call us at 972-367-2001 or
visit our website at www.cclaw.com.
Carstens & Cahoon.
Dedicated to protecting ideas.®