Engineering & Construction
Members of our Engineering & Construction team apply their legal expertise together with their education and experience in engineering to provide our clients with legal services including:
- Patentability Opinions
- Freedom to Operate Opinions
- Patent Preparation, Prosecution and Procurement
- Representation in Post-Grant Proceedings in the U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Including Interferences, Reexaminations, Inter Partes Review, Post Grant Reviews and Covered Business Method Reviews
- Due Diligence Studies
- License counseling, negotiation and drafting
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Litigation
Members of the Engineering & Construction team also coordinate with our other teams to help clients manage their intellectual property portfolios and enforce their intellectual property rights through licensing and/or litigation, when necessary. The attorneys on this team worked as engineers before entering the legal profession and had significant experience designing and developing products, industrial facilities, energy facilities, and defense related technologies. Two of our attorneys are Licensed Professional Engineers (PE) in Pennsylvania.
Areas in which the Team has experience and has represented clients include:
- Air Separation Plants
- Boilers
- Building Construction
- Building Materials
- Building Methods
- Chemical Plants
- Chemical Processes
- Cogeneration Plants
- Concrete
- Construction Technologies
- Conveyor Systems
- Electrical Systems
- Electrical Outlets
- Energy Systems
- Equipment Maintenance
- Engineering Processes
- Fabrication
- Fuel Systems
- Gas Turbines
- HVAC Systems
- Industrial Burners
- Industrial Facilities
- Manufacturing
- Materials Handling
- Mining
- Modular Building Structures
- Petroleum Refineries
- Piping Systems
- Plumbing
- Power Plants
- Pre-fabricated Structures
- Residential Buildings
- Roofing
- Synthetic Fuel Plants
- Utility Systems
- Ventilation Systems
- Water Systems
- Windows
