To a historically unprecedented degree, today’s products and services are a product of innovation. Patents protect your firm’s most valuable assets – its innovations. And patents protect your right to profit from your innovations. Patents can and do protect your firm’s novel inventions in these, and many other fields:
 At Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP, our lawyers have filed for patents on such diverse subjects as superconductors, semiconductor chips, bioengineered cell lines, surgical probes, off-shore drilling platforms, windmills, computer programs, digital communications equipment, and complex machinery.
Not only do we have an unusually broad range of experience, but we understand how today’s accelerated product lifecycles, and the widespread tendency to resort to litigation more quickly, require that you have seasoned, hard-hitting—and cost-effective—patent counsel to help you navigate the growing global marketplace.
We pride ourselves on our ability to work closely with our clients to craft the optimum patent portfolio, in tight alignment with their business strategy, and proceeding from there to:
Whatever your firm’s patent licensing, counseling, or prosecution needs, we’re familiar with the challenges you face and have addressed them before, to great effect, with others.
Our experience patent prosecutors routinely represent clients in seeking and obtaining patent protection from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and abroad through international filings. Our firm has over twenty attorneys who are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and over ninety percent of our attorneys have technical degrees. The firm regularly tracks, develops strategies and reports to clients on important changes in practice before the PTO and developments in the law that impact patent prosecution.
We work on:
For more information on these proceedings see our Practice Note for Practical Law, Charles R. Macedo, Understanding PTAB Trials: Key Milestones In IPR, PGR And CBM Proceedings (last revised July 2021).
There are strategic benefits and risks for each of these procedures both for Petitioners and Patent Owners. Our attorneys closely track and report on important developments with PTAB practice and offer clients our unique perspective and important developments.
Now more than ever, many litigations involve parallel proceedings within the patent office, and many patent application result in appeals. It is extremely important to make sure that your representatives before the Patent Office are not only experienced patent practitioners licensed to practice before the Patent Office, but also have the litigation savvy necessary for the new form of adversarial proceedings and related strategic advice.
Our attorneys are prepared to assist clients in pursuing the right strategy under the new procedures to get you results. Our firm offers the unique qualifications that only a top-notch patent boutique can provide, attorneys with litigation and complex licensing experience, prosecution experience and deep technical skills. Our firm has more than 20 attorneys who are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and over 90 percent of our attorneys have technical degrees. We also have the significant trial and appellate experience that will be needed to win and protect on appeal those wins from these new PTAB proceedings.
Whether you are a patent holder or an accused infringer, it is important to your business that over the past decade the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) post-issuance practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has grown significantly.
With the advent of the America Invents Act in September 2011, the role of post-issuance and third party proceedings becomes even more important. A number of relatively new post-issuance proceedings, including Post-Grant Review (PRG), Inter Partes Review (IPR).
For more information on these proceedings see our Practice Note for Practical Law, Charles R. Macedo, Understanding PTAB Trials: Key Milestones In IPR, PGR And CBM Proceedings (last revised July 2021).
There are strategic benefits and risks for each of these procedures both for Petitioners and Patent Owners. Our attorneys closely track and report on important developments with PTAB practice and offer clients our unique perspective and important developments.
Now more than ever, many litigations involve parallel proceedings within the patent office, and many patent application result in appeals. It is extremely important to make sure that your representatives before the Patent Office are not only experienced patent practitioners licensed to practice before the Patent Office, but also have the litigation savvy necessary for the new form of adversarial proceedings and related strategic advice.
Our attorneys are prepared to assist clients in pursuing the right strategy under the new procedures to get you results. Our firm offers the unique qualifications that only a top-notch patent boutique can provide, attorneys with litigation and complex licensing experience, prosecution experience and deep technical skills. Our firm has more than 20 attorneys who are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and over 90 percent of our attorneys have technical degrees. We also have the significant trial and appellate experience that will be needed to win and protect on appeal those wins from these new PTAB proceedings.
Patent litigation is one of the more complex areas we practice in. Cases often involve parallel litigations or international support. We have won several cases in several states and are adept at defending, enforcing and protecting Intellectual Property in court including before the:
Working with an Intellectual Property team can both identify and reduce risks for your business. As part of your Intellectual Property Strategy, we conduct freedom-to-operate research studies and identify ways to minimize risks and exposure for your business. Needless to say, this is a great place to start and can avoid potential lawsuits and damages further down the road. Contact us to start you off with a competitive landscape assessment and determine the best strategy from there.
Defend your innovations and turn your patent portfolio into a revenue source. We guide clients through every phase of the patent process—from securing robust protection through prosecution, to enforcing rights in litigation or negotiating licensing and sale agreements. Our team combines technical knowledge with legal and business acumen to help you safeguard your inventions and transform your parents into valuable business assets.