Practice Areas

Chavous Intellectual Property Law represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property portfolio development and exploitation, intellectual property enforcement, and dispute resolution. We provide a range of services, including:

• Patent Litigation
  • Advising clients on pre-litigation strategies for patents, trademarks, copyrights, and contracts
  • Enforcing patent rights in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and high technology patent litigation
  • Defending against assertions of patent infringement
• Patent Prosecution and Patent Appeals
  • Drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and internationally
  • Advising clients on patent prosecution strategy to obtain the most value out of their IP portfolios
• Inter Partes Review
  • Advising patent owners and petitioners on inter partes review proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Identifying prior art for inter partes review proceedings
  • Successful representation of petitioners to cancel claims blocking freedom-to-operate
  • Successful representation of patent owners to avoid cancellation of claims
• Trademarks
  • Searching trademarks
  • Filing and prosecuting trademark applications
  • Providing trademark clearance opinions
• Copyrights
  • Assisting in the filing and searching of copyright
  • Drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and internationally
• Business Strategy Guidance
  • Conducting due diligence investigations to analyze validity, scope and enforceability of patent claims
  • Providing patent validity and infringement opinions
  • Conducting market analysis