Firm Experience

Patent

Conduct patent searches, analyses, and monitoring
Render patentability and freedom to operate recommendations
Prepare, file, and prosecute patent applications before the USPTO and coordinate patent efforts internationally
Prepare patent license agreements
Prepare and prosecute patent applications and evaluate potential patent threats

M&A advisory, both preparing for market, through the transaction, and post-closing transition work
Representing buyers, sellers, and stakeholders
Purchase and sale agreements
Capital raises and financial structuring
Membership interest purchase agreements
Letters of intent
Due diligence review
Financial transactions
Loan agreements

Craft succession plans for companies and family offices
Buy-sell agreements
Facilitate team and family meetings to ease the Client experience
Asset protection
Align with personal estate plan
Identify existing pieces of the plan and create a cohesive enterprise-worthy succession plan for the organization or family office

Conduct trademark searches, analyses, and monitoring
Prosecute applications, registrations, maintenance, and renewals
Monitor third-party use and registration of marks and domain names
Design reasonable and defensible policing programs with intelligent enforcement strategy decisions
Prosecute and defend clients in inter partes proceedings (oppositions and cancellations) before the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

“Lawyer On Call” – act as a confidential, broad-scope, legal advisor with business acumen to dedicated company leaders
Fractional support to in-house counsel (aka “the pile at the end of my desk”)
Contract administration and negotiation
Corporate governance (minutes, resolutions, operating agreements)
Employment
Real estate
Regulatory compliance
Risk mitigation and dispute resolution, including litigation
Work off list of priorities for the organization as a legal partner

Represent clients mainly in US federal court and Texas state courts
Conduct all aspects of litigation from inception to trial, including developing case strategy with witnesses and fact development, managing e-discovery, conducting written discovery, developing expert opinions, taking and defending depositions, drafting and arguing motions, and presenting cases at trial
Prosecute and defend wide array of claims, including misappropriation of trade secrets, infringement of patents, trademarks and copyrights, breach of contract and fiduciary duties, breach of nondisclosure agreements, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices