patents

Lukas IP has extensive intellectual property experience representing companies and individuals in connection with the procurement of patent rights in all areas of technology specializing in medical devices. Lukas IP’s patent procurement services include drafting and prosecuting patent applications, conducting patentability searches and studies, and strategic patent portfolio management. Lukas IP also assists clients in identifying and prioritizing patentable inventions and in establishing company procedures for advancing patent protection and patent asset management.

exploring the frontiers of innovation

Innovation is constantly expanding the boundaries of technology and Lukas IP assists clients at the frontier. Lukas IP provides research and mapping services to provide a unique look at the present patent landscape in a particular field of industry. The birds-eye view provides the client with a unique perspective to push the boundary of innovation in a direction never envisioned before and stake new ground with new patents that comport with the client’s strategic and aggressive needs. Imagine the possibilities.

Trademarks

Lukas IP offers the full range of trademark-related services including portfolio planning, strategizing, trademark, trademark clearance, use and registration.

Intellectual proPerty asset management

The strategic management and use of patents can enhance a company’s commercial success. Lukas IP serves this purpose by using patents and patent management in order to establish a proprietary market advantage, improve financial performance and enhance overall competitiveness for its clients.

IP asset management includes the strategic alignment of IP asset management with corporate and strategic objectives. Lukas IP works with clients to identify, leverage, manage, create and deploy intellectual property assets and to evaluate and prioritize such assets for purposes of seeking protection and to maximize asset value. For example, Lukas IP works closely with developers and managers to identify potentially patentable aspects of a product or service prior to its release and to develop a strategy for seeking protection for the product or service.

IP asset management includes integrating the role of IP with the innovation process. This stage involves working on all levels to identify strategic gaps and opportunities, generating and prioritizing IP. Lukas IP conducts seminars to train clients on such topics as to how to avoid losing patent rights, how to manage an intellectual property portfolio, how to prepare invention disclosure statements, and how to keep proper IP records.

IP asset management also includes processes and procedures for obtaining IP. This aspect involves mapping prior art and competitor intellectual property. Furthermore, Lukas IP provides “patent watch” services that track patents as they issue in a client’s area of technology or by competitor or inventor name. The critical point here is that companies must ensure that they protect and leverage whatever it is that adds the most value to their business and whatever represents the most vital sources of their competitive advantage.

Lukas IP asset management provides a business-focused process that seeks to align IP asset management plans, processes and activities to the business strategy and objectives. This includes benchmarking IP asset management practices to help identify the right practices for our clients and identifying the IP management best practices that will support the key drivers that will enable business strategy implementation.

International IP Protection

Lukas IP has a global perspective. The firm handles the foreign intellectual property matters of its domestic clients through a worldwide network of foreign attorneys and agents. The firm has established close relationships with foreign practitioners and can call upon experts in a particular country, including China, to promptly service the firm’s U.S. client’s needs. Lukas IP regularly meets and maintains relationships with foreign associates and keeps abreast of foreign developments. Lukas IP is uniquely qualified to service the global intellectual property needs of its clients.

designs

Design patents have increasingly gained popularity after several favorable court rulings. Lukas IP assists and advises clients in evaluating the value and coverage of protection available with design patents and helps clients obtain design patents to round out their portfolios.