Townsend Lockett offers patent prosecution services for companies and individuals looking to obtain patent protection for their inventions. Townsend Lockett is positioned to prepare and file patent applications, and prosecute them to registration at price points that are cost-effective for individual inventors and businesses alike. In addition, Townsend Lockett is able to assist its clients with a number of related services, including:
- freedom to operate analysis and opinions (determining the infringement risk of new product launches);
- patentability studies (determining whether an invention is likely to be patentable);
- reissuance analysis and prosecution (determining whether current patents require modification or broadening);
- design around analysis (assisting clients in developing and/or modifying products, processes, systems and methods to avoid problematic patent claims);
- third-party patent review and analysis (determining validity of third-party patents and infringement risk);
- intellectual property diligence (reviewing and analyzing patent portfolios for potential mergers and acquisitions);
- patent mapping (analyzing technology markets and facilitating the understanding of technology and intellectual property within a market and identifying space within that market to create, develop and operate); and
- re-examination procedures (challenging the validity of issued third-party competitive patents through the administrative re-examination process).
Townsend Lockett’s patent prosecution service offerings span various technological fields, including electrical, mechanical, chemical and other fields of endeavor. Likewise, Townsend Lockett’s patent attorneys are able to assist with a variety of patent types, including utility patents, design patents, business method patents, etc. and have extensive experience filing both provisional and non-provisional patent applications.
Townsend Lockett’s lead patent prosecutor is a seasoned patent-barred attorney and has both bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Complimenting Townsend Lockett’s lead prosecutor is a team of patent-barred staff attorneys. Townsend Lockett’s staff attorneys have years of industry and legal experience, and provide Townsend Lockett with substantial capacity across a wide technical array, including patent-related services in the following fields: mechanical devices; organic chemistry; inorganic chemistry; pharmaceuticals; biotechnology; electrical; electronic systems; software; telecommunication; cable television systems; etc.
