Phil Walker

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Copyrights, IP and Competitive Practices Litigation, Patent Procurement, Management and Counseling, Technology Transactions, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, International and Cross Border, Patent Litigation, Life Sciences

Career

Phil focuses his practice on intellectual property counseling, including the procurement and enforcement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He counsels his clients on the economic benefits and implications of intellectual property protection and litigation. Phil advises his clients in the evaluation and protection of complex technologies, including inventions in the mechanical, medical, telecommunications, optical, materials, chemical, computer software and Internet business arts.

In addition to filing and prosecuting hundreds of patent applications, he routinely advises his clients on the potential scope of patent protect available for a given idea and the potential liability, level of protection or enforceability associated with issued patents. He also counsels his clients on a wide variety of trademark, Internet, unfair competition and copyright issues, including dispute resolution, licensing, intellectual asset management and strategic counseling.

Phil efficiently manages large intellectual property portfolios, advising multiple clients having over 500 registrations each. He guides clients through comprehensive domestic and international properties strategies to maximize company value and maintain competitive advantages.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association; Tennessee Bar; Nashville Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section