From patentability to patent enforcement
Protecting an innovation means safeguarding its value and creating the conditions to turn it into a competitive advantage. We assist companies, start-ups, research centres and inventors in identifying, exploiting and defending patents and semiconductor topographies, supporting them at every stage of the intellectual property’s lifecycle.
Our assistance begins before filing, with an assessment of patentability requirements, freedom-to-operate analyses and the – often decisive – choice between patenting and keeping the innovation confidential.
We support our clients from the preparation of the patent application through to filing, national and international extensions, and the management of relations with the main patent offices. We also support the commercialisation of industrial property rights through the drafting and negotiation of licence, assignment and franchising agreements, as well as any other agreements designed to facilitate the exploitation of innovation, including research and development agreements with universities and research centres.
Patent litigation is one of the firm’s key areas of expertise. Thanks to our thirty years’ experience, we are able to provide our clients with the best possible assistance in highly technical disputes and multi-jurisdictional proceedings, including before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), resorting where necessary to interim relief and other urgent protective measures, whilst also considering – where possible and in the client’s best interests – negotiation techniques, mediation or the use of other ADR mechanisms.
With regard to the UPC, our partners actively participate in research initiatives and bodies dedicated to analysing the Court’s case law and procedures; we put this experience at our clients’ disposal when devising cross-border strategies.
LGV Avvocati’s strengths lie in the in-depth technical expertise of its professionals, its extensive network of technical experts capable of supporting the various stages of litigation, its strategic ability to coordinate the most effective litigation strategies (both in defence and in attack), and its focus on achieving a substantive outcome for the client.