At Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, McNett & Henry LLP, we vigorously enforce and defend our clients’ intellectual property rights. We provide a wide range of pre-litigation, litigation, arbitration, and mediation services. We have a team of experienced trial lawyers that can fight for your rights throughout the entire litigation and appeal process.
Our team of dedicated trial lawyers will help you understand and evaluate the benefits and risks of your case. We understand that due to the stakes involved, litigation can create significant pressures. Personalities and interactions between client and lawyer can be the key to the success of a case. At Woodard Emhardt, we understand that litigation can be stressful enough, and for success, we need you to be comfortable throughout the entire litigation process. At the beginning of each case, we propose to our clients a team of attorneys whom we feel have the best capabilities to handle the case. You can evaluate our litigation team and provide feedback on the members to ensure you are personally comfortable with the litigation team involved.
Due to the high stakes nature of intellectual property litigation, we understand that management of the case, especially budgeting, can be daunting At the beginning of your case, our team of experienced trial lawyers will sit down with you and lay out a case game plan along with a budget. In any litigation, there are always surprises, and circumstances will change. We appreciate the importance of providing rapid communication as well as updates on the budget so you can make the best decisions possible for your business.
Client communication is vitally important for a successful outcome. We understand that it can be difficult to grasp all that is involved in the case. That is why we have developed case management reports that are supplied on a regular basis so that you know what is being done in the case, why, and how much it will cost. These reports help you feel more comfortable and in control of the case, which in turn helps you make better decisions on how to handle the case.
Most intellectual property cases involve complex legal or technical issues. Our team of experienced trial lawyers is highly skilled in developing the story of the case so that both the judge and jury can quickly comprehend your side of the complex issues in a straightforward manner.
Our group of trial litigators has the knowledge and experience to handle any intellectual property case. Because intellectual property is all we do, our team of experienced trial lawyers have unique skills that can help you gain an advantage over your competition.
For patent litigation, every trial lawyer in our firm has a science or engineering degree. Not all law firms can say that. As a result, all of our trial lawyers, from the lead litigator to the least senior associate, have the technical background to readily understand the technology involved in your case. In contrast, any opposing counsel without this technical knowledge may overlook or not comprehend key issues related to the technology that may dramatically affect results. Our technical expertise gives you an advantage over your opponent.
Patent litigation can involve a number of complex legal and procedural issues that can trip up the unwary or inexperienced. Our trial lawyers have the experience to avoid these pitfalls, and this experience has been recognized in the patent community. For example, a number of seasoned trial lawyers from our firm were intimately involved in drafting the Patent Case Management Rules for the Southern District of Indiana.
All of our trial lawyers are registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. With this ability, our trial lawyers are very familiar with alternative ways to efficiently resolve patent cases through the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s ex parte reexamination, inter partes reexamination, reissue, or interference procedures. Having the same trial lawyer handle the case either in court or before the United States Patent and Trademark Office allows you the assurance of continuity throughout the entire process, which can lower the risk of miscommunication or mishandling of the case whether before the court or in front of the Patent Office. To put it another way, the qualifications and abilities of our team of trial lawyers provides a one-stop shop for you to successfully resolve your case no matter how you want to handle your patent lawsuit.
Likewise, our depth of knowledge of handling trademark cases in court as well as in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office gives you an advantage with trademark litigation.
Depending on the circumstances of the case, we can provide a wide range of billing options, such as hourly billing, contingent fee, or a hybrid hourly-contingent fee arrangement, to name just a few examples.
At Woodard Emhardt, we can put the litigation team together to achieve the success to make your ideas untouchable®.