Covington’s expertise encompasses identifying, evaluating and protecting virtually every type of intellectual property asset, including those involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, domain names, data rights and licensed rights. Clients regularly turn to us to audit their intellectual property assets so they can better understand their scope and value of their rights, and can more effectively manage them. Our intellectual property lawyers frequently draw upon Covington’s vast industry and regulatory expertise in areas such as communications, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and information technology. We also draw upon a global network of foreign intellectual property lawyers, as necessary, to assist with the management of foreign intellectual property assets.
We assist clients in crafting and implementing strategies to help assure continued freedom to operate and to realize and maximize the value of their intellectual property potential.
We act on our recognition that intellectual property audits and management plans must be tailored to company priorities, operations, and finances and that they must be sensitive to the prevailing regulatory environment.
Representative Matters
- We manage the US and global trademark portfolios for such companies as Bunge, GA Modefine, S.A., (which owns the ARMANI brands trademarks), the National Geographic Society, PBS, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc., Promontory Financial Group, and the United States Soccer Federation.
- We manage patent portfolios for companies in the pharmaceutical, communications, financial services, and other industries.
- We advise clients on strategic issues, such as patent protection for emerging technologies, the tradeoffs between patent and trade secret protection, and systems and procedures to encourage and evaluate technology disclosures for patent protection.
- We advise clients on strategies for enhancing their patent portfolios and deterring third party infringement actions.
Accolades
- The Best Lawyers in America - Three attorneys recognized for Intellectual Property Law (2007-2008).
- Legal 500 US - IP - Non-Contentious/Transactional: IP in Complex Transactions (2007)
- Legal 500 EMEA, 2006-2007, Intellectual Property (Belgium) - "Covington & Burling LLP 'provides a high-quality, cost-effective work product' according to one client. Regulatory concerns are ably dealt with through the firm's legislative experience, and the firm is a good choice for litigation, particularly in relation to electronic media" (2007).
- Chambers USA's - America's Leading Business Lawyers - One attorney recognized for Intellectual Property (2006-2008).
- International Who's Who of Business Lawyers - One attorney recognized for Patent (2005-2007).
- PLC - Life Sciences, Which Lawyer? - One attorney recognized for Intellectual Property (2005-2008).
- European Legal Experts - One attorney recognized for Intellectual Property (Brussels) (2006).
- PLC Global Counsel 2006 - Global Counsel Magazine, “The Life Sciences Industry Super League” - ranked number one in the world, 23 Covington lawyers were recommended as leaders in their fields, including seven lawyers in Europe.
- European Legal 500, Intellectual Property (Belgium) - “…Covington & Burling has a successful IP regulatory practice, the firm also undertakes high-end litigation in the Belgian courts” (2005).
- Legal 500, Commercial Litigation (EU) - “Covington & Burling is ‘business-orientated and user-friendly.' The lawyers are ‘efficient and responsive.’ Areas of expertise include complex commercial contracts, IP, life sciences, product liability, wrongful denials of insurance coverage and environmental torts” (2005).
- One of our Covington partners is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and vice chair of the Complex Litigation Committee.
- Another partner served as a United States District Court Judge for the District of Delaware for ten years presiding over 100 trials.
- In 2005, Covington was awarded “Best Achievement in Protecting IP on the Internet” at the WORLDleaders European Awards.
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