When it comes to the strength of Hogan & Hartson's patent practice, you need not take our word for it. Hogan & Hartson is a definitive presence in this arena. Every leading survey of patent firms for the past 10 years, including those conducted by Intellectual Property Today, the Legal 500, and Managing Intellectual Property, has included us in the elite group of firms identified by researchers.

We offer a full range of patent services: strategic counseling and portfolio development; transactions and licensing; litigation, enforcement, and appeals; and prosecution and opinions. Our patent group includes more than 40 registered patent attorneys and patent agents. Many of our patent attorneys and patent agents hold advanced technical degrees, including Ph.D.s, in disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science, as well as in electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering. Several attorneys also have substantive business experience working for companies in the industries they serve, enhancing their ability to understand the concerns their clients face in running a business and achieving their objectives.

Our clients include local and multinational companies, start-ups, Fortune 100 corporations, universities, hospitals, and research organizations. We are one of only a few firms that have registered U.S. patent attorneys stationed in Japan. Through our intellectual property (IP) attorneys in the United States, Berlin, Munich, Geneva, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw, Caracas, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai and our relationships with IP attorneys in the countries where we do not have an office, we are uniquely capable of helping our clients protect, enforce, and commercialize their intellectual property in virtually all industrialized countries throughout the world.

Representative Technologies:

• Antennas
• Artificial intelligence technologies
• Automated pattern/target recognition
• Camera technologies
• Chemistry and chemical technology
• Computer hardware and software
• Data analysis and visualization
• Display device technologies
• Electronics
• Global positioning systems
• Lasers
• Medical devices
• Networking technologies
• Optics
• Optical components
• Optical networking
• Pharmaceuticals
• Printer technologies
• Radar
• Satellite hardware and software
• Semiconductor technologies
• Signal processing technologies
• Telecommunications technologies

Related Experience

• When we represented Gemstar-TV Guide International in a number of patent infringement suits against Pioneer Corporation and EchoStar Communications Corporation, involving interactive program guide technology, we achieved a settlement valued at more than $200 million.
• In representing IBM, the owner/licensor of a patent covering voice recognition for a robotic surgical system, in a patent infringement trial against CMI, the developer of a voice-controlled robotic surgical system, we persuaded the jury to find that CMI’s system infringed IBM’s patent and to reject CMI’s challenges to the patent’s validity.
• When Mallinckrodt Inc., a division of Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare), faced a claim for $1.5 billion in damages for alleged infringement of hypothermia-related medical technology patents, we successfully defended it and went on to procure the subsequent dismissal of additional patent infringement claims.
• We successfully enforced Comark Communications Inc.’s patent covering an aural carrier correction system for a common amplification television transmitter. A jury awarded our client $7.7 million in compensatory damages. The court then doubled the award to $15.4 million in light of the jury’s finding of willfulness, and awarded over $3 million in attorneys’ fees and costs.
• On behalf of Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, we successfully enforced patents against three generic drug manufacturers accused of infringing Sigma-Tau’s patents directed to administration of pharmaceuticals used to treat dialysis patients.
• When Proxim Wireless Corporation infringed three wireless local-area network patents obtained by Symbol Technologies, Inc., covering a basic feature of the WiFi standard, we obtained a jury verdict in Symbol’s favor, including $23 million in damages.
• In federal court in California, we obtained a preliminary injunction on behalf of MediaTek Inc. against VIA Technologies, Inc. and AOpen Inc. on claims of patent and copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation directed to chips that control optical disk drives used in desktop computers.
• We advised leading German hospitals in patent infringement matters relating to the use of nitric oxide for medical purposes.
• In a patent infringement action involving a laser range finder for golfers and hunters, we successfully represented Laser Technology Inc. against Nikon Inc. and Asia Optical Co. A federal jury in Colorado awarded LTI compensatory damages for past sales of the product and found that both defendants’ infringement had been willful.
• On behalf of Hauser, Inc., we successfully litigated a patent infringement suit regarding a botanical extract used to preserve fruit drink beverages.
• In a case involving patented methods of manufacturing rolled steel, we successfully defended steel manufacturer Mexinox in a patent infringement case filed by J&L Steel in Pittsburgh, Pa.