Intellectual Property
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Provided by Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP
Smith Anderson’s intellectual property lawyers work with you to develop, protect and promote your knowledge, discoveries and innovations. We support our clients engaged in transactions to acquire, sell, finance, support, develop and monetize key intellectual property assets.
This includes a variety of transaction arrangements, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic licensing and technology transfer, partnering and alliances, sponsored research, financing and manufacturing/sourcing arrangements. We also help clients to build and protect their brands through strategic development, maintenance and enforcement of trademark and service mark portfolios. We regularly assist clients with complex information privacy and data security issues, including breach notice and incident response.
We also work with clients to resolve intellectual property-related disputes, such as patent and trade secret litigation, trademark litigation and oppositions, copyright litigation, licensing disputes and internet disputes.
Our intellectual property clients range from publicly-traded companies and well-established privately-held businesses to start-ups, emerging companies and university spin-outs. As a full-service firm, we also advise our clients on labor and employment matters, employee benefits, tax strategies, governmental relations, real estate and other business-related matters.
Chambers Review
Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP continues to handle substantial work on transactional and contentious IP matters for a variety of technology companies in the Research Triangle. Especially well regarded for its work in the field of agricultural technology.
Work Highlights
- Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP acts as copyright and trademark counsel to Pinehurst, LLC, owner of the world-famous Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina that will be the 2024 site of the US Open golf tournament.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Smith Anderson attorneys I have worked with are highly skilled and well respected in their field."
"They have a deep bench. While we were sad to lose a long-tenured attorney (who left to another firm), they had other lawyers who picked up the responsibilities and got up to speed quickly."
"Local team is extremely strong and knowledgeable about our business; anything that can't be answered is referred to other counsel members who are also strong."
"The Smith Anderson attorneys I have worked with are highly skilled and well respected in their field."
"They have a deep bench. While we were sad to lose a long-tenured attorney (who left to another firm), they had other lawyers who picked up the responsibilities and got up to speed quickly."
"Local team is extremely strong and knowledgeable about our business; anything that can't be answered is referred to other counsel members who are also strong."
Notable Practitioners
John Therien focuses on representing clients in the agrotechnology industry, including in connection with collaboration and licensing agreements.
"John is a deep biopharma expert. We've been in a lot of litigation and he is very detailed and understands the details of how deals are done to an uncommon level of depth."
Joey Morris is an accomplished litigator with strength in copyright, patent and trademark infringement claims.
"Joey has been a great business partner and a trusted resource."
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Industries
Provided by Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, LLP
Banking
Building Materials
Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Electronics
Healthcare
Industrial Machinery
Life Sciences
Pharmaceuticals
Software
Video Games