Intellectual Property Law
What is Intellectual Property Law?
Intellectual Property (IP) law protects and enforces rights to inventions, designs, and innovations. Just as property law protects tangible assets, IP law safeguards intangible assets – ideas, technologies, and creative solutions that drive business growth.
Its purpose is to encourage innovation and reward creators by allowing them to benefit from their work while preventing unauthorized use by others.
Why Secure Intellectual Property?
Intellectual property rights are among your company’s most valuable assets. They protect competitive advantage, attract investors, and enhance market strength. Without proper protection, even the most innovative products or technologies can be copied or commercialized by others anywhere in the world.
Securing IP ensures ownership, exclusivity, and commercial leverage—the foundation for sustainable success.
How We Help You Protect and Benefit from IP
With more than 20 years of experience, Davé Law Group provides comprehensive IP services across industries such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials science, electronics, telecommunications, and software.
Our attorneys combine legal precision with technical depth to help clients develop, protect, and maximize the value of their intellectual property portfolios.
Our Core Practice Areas
Patents
We help innovators protect their inventions through strategic drafting, filing, prosecution, and enforcement. From early-stage startups to global corporations, we deliver clear, enforceable patents that support business goals and strengthen market position.
Trademarks
Your brand is one of your most valuable business assets. We provide full-service trademark registration, portfolio
management, and enforcement to safeguard your identity and reputation.
Our focus is to help you build, protect, and expand strong brands with lasting commercial value.
Industrial Designs
Design protection reinforces differentiation in competitive markets. We secure industrial design registrations that protect the distinctive visual appearance of your products – helping prevent imitation and strengthening brand identity.
Pharmaceutical Patents
Pharmaceutical innovation demands substantial R&D investment. Our deep experience in procuring, defending, and enforcing drug patents ensures your discoveries are protected and positioned for global commercialization.
We assist with formulations, compounds, synthesis methods, and regulatory-aligned IP strategies that protect your competitive edge.
Specialized Services
IP Counseling
Our IP counseling services provide a comprehensive evaluation of your technologies and portfolios. We identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and align IP protection with your business strategy—ensuring your assets deliver long-term value.
Building an IP Portfolio
A well-structured patent portfolio enhances valuation and market credibility.
We help you create balanced, defensible portfolios that protect critical technologies, support licensing, and deter competition.
Patent Searches
We conduct patentability and landscape searches to evaluate novelty, prior art, and industry trends.
Using advanced databases and global search tools, we deliver accurate, actionable insights that guide your R&D and filing decisions.
Patent Drafting & Filing
Our attorneys and technology specialists prepare clear, technically sound, and strategically focused patent applications.
We ensure each filing provides strong, enforceable protection while reducing procedural obstacles before the USPTO and international patent offices.
Patent Prosecution
Patent prosecution requires expertise and precision.
We manage office actions, claim amendments, and examiner communications to secure broad protection efficiently and consistently across jurisdictions.
Patent Reexamination & Reissue
We represent clients before the USPTO in proceedings to strengthen or correct issued patents, including:
- Supplemental Examination
- Reissue Applications
- Ex Parte Reexaminations
- Inter Partes and Post-Grant Reviews
These procedures help maintain validity and extend the commercial strength of your patents.
Patent Litigation
When disputes arise, we provide strategic, results-driven representation before U.S. federal courts and the USPTO.
Our litigation services include infringement, invalidity, and non-infringement opinions, freedom-to-operate analyses, and full litigation support.
We combine technical insight with legal expertise to secure practical and favorable outcomes.
Licensing
We help clients unlock value through patent and technology licensing.
Our agreements are designed to protect ownership, optimize revenue, and foster collaboration—covering joint ventures, technology transfers, and strategic alliances.
Dispute Resolution
We handle IP disputes through litigation, arbitration, mediation, and negotiation, achieving practical results that protect client interests while minimizing cost and disruption.
Technology Transactions
We advise on a wide range of technology-driven commercial agreements, including:
- Licensing and distribution contracts
- OEM and manufacturing agreements
- Strategic alliances and joint ventures
- University collaborations and standards-body participation
IP Mining & Enforcement
We help clients identify, analyze, and monetize under-utilized IP assets.
Through targeted portfolio analysis and enforcement planning, we convert dormant patents into active, revenue-producing opportunities.
About Davé Law Group
Founded by Dr. Raj S. Davé, former partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Davé Law Group is a U.S. intellectual property law firm combining big-firm quality with small-firm efficiency.
With decades of global experience in patent strategy, prosecution, and litigation, we help innovators protect and commercialize their ideas worldwide.