Intellectual Property
USA Guide 2024 : Michigan
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+1 313 465 7000About
Provided by Honigman LLP
Honigman’s Intellectual Property (IP) department focuses on patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets for client portfolios worldwide, including search, registration, enforcement, anti-counterfeiting, litigation, and a range of transactional work involving intellectual property rights.
Our IP team offers a wide range of intellectual property services to large, mid-size, and small businesses throughout the nation and around the world. We also assist foreign clients in extending protection for intellectual property rights developed in their home countries to the U.S. market and assist U.S. clients in securing U.S. and global protection of intellectual property rights.
Our attorneys and IP specialists have extensive legal and professional training, including wide-ranging backgrounds and advanced degrees in electronics, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, e-commerce, information technology, chemistry, mechanical and chemical engineering, biotechnology, biology, medical devices, and structural and civil engineering. In addition, many of Honigman’s lawyers have worked for major corporations, national law firms, and IP boutiques and as examiners in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), giving them valuable, multifaceted perspectives on our clients’ IP issues.
Chambers Review
Honigman is a distinguished firm in the IP market offering a full range of services ranging from copyright matters to trademarks and patents. The team is particularly experienced in patent preparation, procurement and prosecution. It regularly acts for clients in the hi-tech and pharmaceutical industries.
Work Highlights
- Honigman represented Neapco Drivelines and Neapco Holdings in defending against patent infringement claims brought by competitor American Axle in the District of Delaware.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Honigman is a sophisticated firm on which I can count to think deeply about strategy before we take an action. The firm possesses all the litigation tools, paralegals and support staff required for complex litigation."
"This firm can unpack a complicated situation and distill out the important issues to help find a path for client success."
"Honigman has always been highly responsive and provided excellent service."
"Honigman is a sophisticated firm on which I can count to think deeply about strategy before we take an action. The firm possesses all the litigation tools, paralegals and support staff required for complex litigation."
"This firm can unpack a complicated situation and distill out the important issues to help find a path for client success."
"Honigman has always been highly responsive and provided excellent service."
Notable Practitioners
Anessa Kramer is noted for her trademark expertise, regularly handling enforcement and opposition work.
"Anessa is a thoughtful, creative and highly skilled trademark attorney who has been a true partner to our business in every sense of the word."
"Anessa provides business savvy advice quickly."
Michael Huget is widely recognized as a leading IP attorney in Michigan and has represented an array of clients from the automotive and pharmaceutical sectors in the protection of their patent portfolios. He also assists clients in infringement claims.
"Mike is a top notch litigator and unbeatable counselor. I rely upon his judgment without question."
Jonathan O'Brien is a respected attorney in the Michigan IP market. He is held in high regard for his expertise in patents and is well versed in pharmaceutical matters.
"There is nobody I have worked with whose judgment I trust more than Jonathan's."
"He is very strategic and thinks about things from a bunch of different perspectives."
Ranked Lawyers at
Honigman LLP
Michigan