With one of the largest intellectual property practices in the Southeast, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings offers a full range of IP services, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and licensing, as well as assistance with other technology transactions. More than 40 attorneys, including 22 licensed patent attorneys, who possess a broad base of legal experience, as well as the advanced technical and educational backgrounds needed for the industries we serve. Our lawyers understand the crucial role that a company’s IP assets play in its success, and are able to provide seasoned, cost-effective counsel based on deep industry knowledge.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings handles all aspects of patent and trademark prosecution, copyright protection, and IP portfolio management. Our litigators defend and enforce clients’ intellectual property rights before federal, state, appellate, and administrative courts, as well as international forums and tribunals. We also help clients to leverage the full value of their IP portfolios with comprehensive counsel concerning intellectual property development, licensing, and commercialization.
With one of the largest intellectual property practices in the Southeast, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings offers a full range of IP services, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and licensing, as well as assistance with other technology transactions. More than 40 attorneys, including 22 licensed patent attorneys, who possess a broad base of legal experience, as well as the advanced technical and educational backgrounds needed for the industries we serve. Our lawyers understand the crucial role that a company’s IP assets play in its success, and are able to provide seasoned, cost-effective counsel based on deep industry knowledge.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings handles all aspects of patent and trademark prosecution, copyright protection, and IP portfolio management. Our litigators defend and enforce clients’ intellectual property rights before federal, state, appellate, and administrative courts, as well as international forums and tribunals. We also help clients to leverage the full value of their IP portfolios with comprehensive counsel concerning intellectual property development, licensing, and commercialization.
The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings IP Group works with a diverse client base, ranging from start-ups and technology incubators to mid-sized companies and large multinational corporations. Nearly100 of our clients are companies listed on Fortune 500. Our clients do business in industries that include accounting, automotive, banking and finance, biotechnology, construction, education, emerging business, energy, equipment leasing, forest products, health care, insurance, information technology, manufacturing and design, materials and aggregate production, media and communications, mining, municipal and public finance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, life sciences, public utilities, real estate, retail, steel, telecommunications, textiles, transportation, and venture capital. Our firm has been at the forefront of e-commerce and Internet law, serving as counsel to leading companies in this emerging sector.
Our IP lawyers and staff possess the prior work experience, technical educations, and legal knowledge to advise clients efficiently and cost-effectively about all of their domestic and foreign IP matters. The firm’s patent prosecution attorneys have extensive industry backgrounds and advanced degrees in key technical disciplines, including electrical and mechanical engineering, software and computing, and biochemistry. They have held positions with companies such as General Electric and IBM, and understand the bottom-line business importance of securing intellectual property protections for key technologies. The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings IP Group also helps clients protect critical market share and positioning through trademarks and copyright, and provides counsel on issues such as trade secret protection and unfair competition.
Today’s challenging marketplace demands that companies leverage the most value possible from all of their assets – especially their IP portfolios. Our attorneys help clients protect these assets and realize their full value through licensing arrangements, assignments, securitization, outright sales, and other transactions.
Clients count on Bradley Arant Boult Cummings to help protect and defend their valuable IP rights with an experienced team of litigators. We have tried many of the leading cases in the Southeast and have a strong national IP litigation practice. Our lawyers realize IP litigation hits at the core of a client’s business, and success is often key to a company’s survival. With that in mind, our litigators work tirelessly to secure the best possible results for our clients. In fact, we were named a “Go-To Law Firm for Leading Technology Companies” in the 2008 American Lawyer Media survey of in-house counsel. We have also been named a “Highly Recommended Firm,” the top ranking given, among leading litigation firms for Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi in the Benchmark Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms since 2009.