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A patent gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, importing or exporting the claimed invention. This powerful and important right to exclude can make or break a business. In many cases those who have patent rights are able to succeed where those who lack patent rights face a significant uphill battle in achieving the same success.

Our goal in preparing patents on behalf of our clients is to first understand the business goals that drive the need for patents and to then craft a patent strategy that dovetails with those goals. In doing this we are mindful that our efforts are not to simply describe the invention but to create a valuable asset for our client that can be used to increase the overall value of our client's business. This focus is why technologies companies ranging from small start-ups to fortune 500 business and major universities rely on our expert counsel.

Our professionals hold advanced engineering or science degrees in their respective fields and are highly proficient at understanding the intricacies of your invention. This background gives us the ability to efficiently work towards protecting the key aspects of an invention without the need to spend excess time learning the basics of the given technology area.

Litigation is about resolving disputes. In the world of intellectual property law such disputes are often complex high stakes matters that involve disagreements over ownership or the right to practice an idea. Resolving such disputes requires an intelligent plan and purposes that remains at all times results driven. We work closely with our clients to aggressively pursue all aspects of intellectual property litigation, carefully planning discovery and motion practice to optimize our client's position and accomplish the stated objective. Our intellectual property litigators are comfortable with complexity and have the trial skills to make the complex seem simple. Our in depth knowledge of all technology and intellectual property law allows us to prepare and persuasively argue effective litigation strategies.

We explore alternate strategies to litigation no less aggressively. With the cost of litigation becoming increasingly prohibitive and court dockets growing rapidly more crowded, the percentage of cases that actually make it to trial is diminishing. Thus, we know it is important to seek productive and cost-effective outcomes for our clients through arbitration, mediation, and settlement-rather than expensively won court decisions.

   » Trademark, Copyright and Unfair Competiton

Trademarks are what define a businesses unique identity. There is only one Ferrariš. Only one Cokeš and only one Googleš. A good trademark identifies your business as the only source for a certain kind of product or service. Maintaining solid control of your trademark rights is an important step in preserving one of the biggest intangible assets a company can develop.

Using your business goals as a springboard for every decision, our professionals can guide you through the trademark selection and rights procurement process. Our objective is to help you select legally strong brands that will deliver the desired market result.

We have established strong working relationships with a global network of experienced trademark associates. Together with our international colleagues, we coordinate cost-effective, tactical worldwide trademark and copyright programs on your behalf.

Issues relating to the law of unfair competition or antitrust often intermingle with issues relating to intellectual property. The attorneys at Dalina know how to best utilize state and federal unfair competition laws to protect your company from the unlawful conduct of business rivals. By way of example, unfair competition laws prohibit interference with business relationships, disparagement, defamation, invasion of privacy, palming off, plagiarism, unfair competition, deceptive trade practices, fraud, misrepresentation, and other related conduct. Unfair competition law also includes the law relating to the creation and enforcement of non-compete, non-solicit, and non-disclosure agreements. Many unfair competition issues arise in conjunction with infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property.