Patents

Cesari and McKenna provides a full range of services associated with applying for, maintaining and enforcing patents. Further, the firm provides services associated with freedom to practice and technology audits.

The firm provides counseling leading to decisions to file patent applications, including searches and novelty opinions. We prepare patent applications, work with patent draftsmen to prepare formal drawings, and prosecute the patent applications before the US Patent and Trademark Office and also, through our extensive network of foreign associates, we prosecute applications in patent offices around the world. The firm also handles appeal, reissue, re-examination and opposition matters before the US Patent and Trademark Office and in foreign patent offices.

Cesari and McKenna works with companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies for which we prepare hundreds of applications, to small companies for which we prepare applications as the advances in the companies' technologies warrant. The firm also works with individuals and start-ups to acquire patent protection and also to provide the counseling needed to manage intellectual property in an environment that may require particularly thoughtful use of limited resources.

Trademarks

Cesari and McKenna provides a full range of services associated with applying for, maintaining and enforcing trademarks. Further, the firm provides services associated with trademark registration cancellation proceedings.

The firm provides counseling leading to the decisions to adopt trademarks, file applications to register the trademarks, including advising on the use of the trademarks in commerce. We prepare and prosecute the applications for registration before the US Patent and Trademark Office, under international treaties in regional trademark offices around the world and in trademark offices in individual countries around the world. Further, the firms work with clients to maintain the trademark registrations. We also handle appeal, opposition and cancellation proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office and in foreign trademark offices.

Copyright

Cesari and McKenna provides a full range of services associated with registering and enforcing copyrights.

The firm provides counseling leading to the decisions to register copyrights, and prepares applications for copyright registration. The firm also represents its clients in matters regarding the enforcement of copyrights.

Trade Secrets

Cesari and McKenna provides counseling to its clients on preserving information as trade secret, and represents its clients in matters regarding the misappropriation of trade secret.