Cook Alex’s patent practice is dedicated to protecting, enforcing, defending and maximizing the value of clients’ ideas, creativity, and innovations across a wide range of industries and technologies in the United States and foreign countries. We have been involved in the issuance of thousands of patents covering a broad sweep of industries and technologies. Cook Alex has successfully represented clients from individual inventors to Fortune 500 companies.

Cook Alex’s patent practice provides the following patent services to clients:

Counseling

• Surveying the current patent landscape to determine patentability, freedom operate and white space

Protection

• Counseling on patent protection
• Performing prior art analysis to determine patentability and potential infringement
• Drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the U.S. and abroad
• Performing inter-party proceedings

Value Maximization

• Counseling on maximizing patent portfolio value
• Providing clearance opinions
• Providing opinions on validity, enforceability, and infringement issues
• Drafting and negotiating technology licenses and cross-licenses and technology transfer agreements
• Drafting confidentiality agreements
• Providing due diligence support associated with acquisitions and divestitures

Enforcement & Defense

• Counseling on patent enforcement and litigation avoidance
• Performing prior art analysis to determine validity
• Resolving patent license disputes and avoiding adversely-held patents
• Litigating patent infringement