At Russ Weinzimmer & Associates, we understand the needs of corporations as both an experienced provider, and an experienced consumer, of patent services. Our experience includes working as Chief Patent Counsel at a global high tech corporation. We now work with small businesses and large corporations to prepare and file patent applications, and to prosecute them to issuance.

We also provide Corporate Patent Services, services that most law firms are not positioned or qualified to offer, including Strategic Patent Portfolio Development, and Patent Program Management. Strategic Patent Portfolio Development includes doing an inventory of your patentable technology, and then determining the most strategically important aspects of that technology by analysis of the market, as well as by analysis of the patents of competitors. Patent Program Management includes in-house educational and motivational seminars on Patents and Intellectual Property for employees and management, as well as specialized programs on Engineering Notebooks, Patent Review Board Leadership, and Trade Secret Protection.

Corporations have found that in many instances, it is more effective and less expensive to send work to an independent senior-level patent attorney than to use an in-house attorney or a large patent law firm. It is not cost-effective for a large firm to allow a senior-level attorney to do patent preparation and prosecution, instead delegating complex and subtle tasks to an often inadequately supervised junior-level attorney, sometimes with only a few years of experience. Also, an in-house attorney cannot render truly objective patent infringement and validity opinions.

Another drawback to using a large patent law firm is the high turnover-rate of the junior attorneys at the firm. The junior attorney that prepares a patent application will most likely not be available years later when the patent is litigated. The senior attorney that supervised the junior attorney typically has only a passing familiarity with the subject matter of the patent. Alternatively, using an independent senior-level attorney to prepare and prosecute a patent application will result in a higher quality patent, at a lower cost - and that same senior-level attorney will be available years later to work with a large firm that specializes in patent litigation. Thus, your corporation gets the highest quality patent work at both the patent preparation phase, and the patent litigation phase.

Russ Weinzimmer & Associates P.C. is positioned to serve corporations throughout the United States, including clients located in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Richmond, Chicago, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, the high-tech corridor along Rte. 128, Nashua, Manchester, and New York City. We also serve English-speaking International clients, such as companies or individuals in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Europe.

For More Information or to Schedule an Appointment with a Patent Lawyer, Call Us at (800) 621-3654