Intellectual Property Rights Patents and Trade Secrets
Intellectual property rights (IPR) protect creations such as inventions, brands, artistic works, and confidential business information. These rights include patents for inventions, trademarks for brand identifiers, copyrights for original works of authorship, and trade secrets for valuable confidential information. Messner Reeves attorneys secure IPR for our clients to protect the interests of creators and the business community.
Patent Services
Patents protect new and innovative inventions by limiting competition and creating opportunities to generate revenue. Our attorneys advise and represent clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, providing support at every stage—from ideation and product development to portfolio maintenance and enforcement.
Messner Reeves attorneys partner with our clients to procure meaningful patent claims that can be monetized and enforced. Our team of registered patent attorneys has extensive experience in semiconductors, medical devices, and software, including web-based services and mobile apps, consumer products, and design patents. Our expertise includes drafting and filing patent applications and pushing them through examination to issuance.
We also advise on:
- “Innovation capture” processes to help your people document their ideas
- Ownership determination, dispute resolution, and patent reward programs
- Filing strategies, including global footprint analysis, cost management, and patent vs. trade secret determinations
licensing, sale, and other monetization - Post-grant proceedings before the patent office (e.g., ex parte re-examination, inter partes review, and post-grant review)
- Trade secret security policies, including management of open source software issues and analysis of potential misappropriation, andinfringement litigation, whether enforcing your IP or defending against another party’s claims.
Trade Secrets
Messner Reeves attorneys safeguard their clients’ trade secrets and proprietary information. We work with businesses of all sizes to advise on the creation, protection, and enforcement of trade secrets under applicable state and federal laws. Our team assists clients with trade secret misappropriation claims, unfair competition disputes, and with proactive strategies to prevent unauthorized disclosure or loss of confidential information.
The Messner Reeves intellectual property team works with a wide range of sensitive business assets, including customer and prospect data, pricing and financial information, marketing plans, algorithms and source code, internal development strategies, formulas, product specifications, and manufacturing processes. Through tailored counsel, contractual protections, and dispute-resolution strategies, Messner Reeves helps clients preserve their competitive advantage and reduce the risk associated with valuable confidential information.
