Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation
Learn more about our intellectual property litigation services and how we might help you or your business on a contingency-fee basis.
The intellectual property attorneys at Lenhart Obenshain focus on assisting individuals, start-ups and established businesses enforce their intellectual property rights and protecting them against intellectual property infringement. We have experienced attorneys with extensive intellectual property law experience, including patent litigation, copyrights and trademarks.
We know that you have invested considerable time, energy and financial resources in the development of your intellectual property. Our Virginia intellectual property attorneys understand that protecting your inventions and creations against intellectual property infringement may be critical to the very existence and future of your business.
The Lenhart Obenshain intellectual property attorneys in Virginia understand the balance between the legal and technical components of intellectual property. We have filed patent litigation actions against some of the largest corporations in the world, including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, among many others. We represent a diverse client base with wide ranging intellectual property holdings in fields that include pharmaceutical, telecommunications, cable television, software development and many others.
Intellectual property litigation is expensive. We firmly believe that expense should not alone prevent our clients from protecting their property and the future of their business.
Traditionally, law firms have only taken patent litigation cases on an hourly billing arrangement, and in patent cases, this can result in fees in excess of one million dollars. Recently, patent litigation attorneys have started handling patent infringement cases on a contingent fee or contingency-fee basis.
In a contingent fee or contingency-fee arrangement, instead of hourly billing, the contingent fee patent litigation attorney is entitled to a percentage of the settlement or trial award. If the plaintiff does not receive any compensation for damages, the attorney receives nothing. The contingent fee is to be distinguished from out-of-pocket expenses, which ordinarily remain an obligation of the client.
Contingent fee patent litigation is often the only way that small businesses and independent inventors can enforce their patents.
The Intellectual property litigation attorneys at Lenhart Obenshain regularly enter alternative fee arrangements (such as contingent fees, partial contingent fees, blended fees, flat rate fees, and others) tailored to suit the needs of our clients.
If you need legal advice on intellectual property law issues, contact Patrick C. Asplin, Mark Obenshain or, Nancy Schlichting our intellectual property and patent litigation attorneys in Charlottesville, Virginia, toll free at 877-716-6434 or call 434.220.6100.
