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BHW

We have a long history of helping startups, mid-sized businesses, and Fortune 100 to 500 companies with their intellectual property needs. When in-house counsel needs specific help with complex IP matters, they know they can count on us. We have extensive experience in a wide range of legal and business issues related to intellectual property. Our team comprises partners with advanced engineering and legal degrees from prestigious universities. We combine top-tier big law firms and Fortune 500 in-house expertise and experience with the attitude and responsiveness only available from a smaller boutique law firm. As a result, we can provide our clients with the best possible service and results.

EXPERIENCED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTORNEYS

BHW is a high-caliber boutique intellectual property law firm. We provide small-firm responsiveness with big-firm capability. Our partners all have advanced engineering degrees and decades of experience, and often manage teams of attorneys and experts for larger projects. We understand the importance of protecting your ideas, inventions, brands, and other intellectual property assets.  

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Meet the Partners

All of our partners are Stanford Law School graduates and accomplished engineers.

 

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Reynaldo C. Barceló

Joshua C. Harrison

David B. Walker

GMGarcia

Guadalupe M. Garcia

Our Clients Trust Us With Their Most Complex Intellectual Property Challenges

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Global Patent Strategy

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Patent Pools & Standards

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Experienced Independent Evaluators

Determining Essentiality to Standards

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“I will tell you that, in my view, petitioner put together what I consider to be a kind of a poster child example of how exactly to do this the right way.”

– Judge Mitchell G. Weatherly

of the patent trial & appeal board

IPR2017-00858, oral hearing transcript, p.27, lines 3-7

Why Choose Us

We have extensive experience in a wide range of legal and business issues related to intellectual property.
Each of our partners holds both advanced engineering and legal degrees from the best universities, and has supplemented his academic credentials with years of technical experience. We combine
top-tier big law firm and Fortune 500 in-house expertise and experience with the attitude
and responsiveness that is only available from a smaller boutique law firm.

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At Barceló, Harrison & Walker, LLP, we provide premier legal services to technology companies facing tough legal challenges. We have extensive experience in a wide range of legal and business issues related to intellectual property.

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Patent Assignment Expand

Patents convey the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the inventions claimed in the patents in the country or countries that issued the patents. To enjoy the benefits of these patent rights, your business should own its patents. However, under U.S. law, only an inventor or an assignee can own a patent and businesses cannot be listed as an inventor. Patent assignment is the legal mechanism to transfer ownership from inventors to your business or from one business to another.

 

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Patent Preparation & Prosecution Expand

A patent application includes certain important sections that include, for example, the abstract, the specification, the drawings, and the claims. Each of these sections can be important in understanding an invention, but it is the claims that describe the legal metes and bounds of a particular invention. Accordingly, it is important that each section is well-drafted to provide the best support for the claims; it will be the claims that will be most scrutinized by the USPTO during examination of the patent application.

 

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Licensing & Patent Portfolios Expand

Patents convey the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the inventions claimed in the patents in the country or countries that issued the patents. A patent owner may choose to retain those rights to prevent others from practicing the inventions, particularly when those inventions are embodied in products produced or services provided by the patent owner. Alternately or additionally, the patent owner may instead choose to license some or all of those rights to other entities to generate licensing revenues. Depending on the licensing strategy, license agreements may convey exclusive rights to a single licensee or non-exclusive rights to multiple licensees.

 

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Patent Pools & Standards Expand

Development of a wide range of technologies are based on technical standards adopted by industry organizations in coordination with the companies responsible for the development of the technology and the products that ultimately incorporate and apply the industry standard. Early adoption and consistent application of industry standards for a technology allows consumers to have confidence that products incorporating the standard will be interoperable with each other and any content conforming to the standard and produced for use with those products.

 

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US and International Patents Expand

Patents grant the exclusive right to make, use, and sell an invention. But such rights are limited to the jurisdictions that grant them. For example, United States patent rights do not extend beyond its borders. In order to obtain patent protection outside of the United States, patent applications must be filed outside of the US. Filing in the US and in foreign jurisdictions can be very expensive. Accordingly, inventors must decide on a the best investment strategy for protecting their invention, marketing and developing their product lines, and maintaining or increasing the valuation of their company short- or long-term.

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

To resolve disputes are there alternatives to litigation? Expand

Many alternatives to expensive and lengthy litigation exist. If used correctly, such Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms can end costly lawsuits early on, resolve complex disputes, and sometimes even produce win-win solutions. Indeed, the vast majority of all lawsuits are settled out of court, many of them on the courthouse steps after months or years of preparation and expense.

Some ADR mechanisms work better than others in any given case. The most common forms of ADR are arbitration, mediation, summary jury trial, and minitrial, although these forms can be combined to form hybrids that may be useful in a particular dispute.

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How do competent attorneys prepare an expert witness for testifying in patent litigation or post-grant proceedings? Expand

Declarations and testimony from technical experts are often used in intellectual property (IP) litigation or post-grant proceedings to inform the court about factual disputes. The technical experts for the opposing parties rarely agree, and so there is an important role for lawyers to ensure that expert statements and testimony does not deviate from the truth, and that the facts that best support a client’s most important arguments are included in the record a persuasive and credible way.

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How is appellate litigation different from trial? Expand

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How do USPTO Inter-Partes Review (IPR) proceedings differ from asserting patent invalidity in a federal district court? Expand

Inter-partes review (IPR) is an adversarial proceeding before the Patent Trial & Appeals Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), in which a petitioner challenges the patentability of one or more claims in an issued US patent.

Other types of post-grant proceedings before the USPTO include ex-parte reexamination, post-grant review (PGR), and covered business method (CBM) patent review.

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Why do so many patent litigation defendants opt to initiate an Inter-Partes Review (IPR) of the asserted patent(s)? Expand

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What is the difference between litigation, arbitration, and mediation? Expand

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Is there such a thing as a global patent? Expand

Patents grant the exclusive right to make, use, and sell an invention. But such rights are limited to the jurisdictions that grant them. For example, United States patent rights do not extend beyond its borders. In order to obtain patent protection outside of the United States, patent applications must be filed outside of the US. Filing in the US and in foreign jurisdictions can be very expensive. Accordingly, inventors must decide on a the best investment strategy for protecting their invention, marketing and developing their product lines, and maintaining or increasing the valuation of their company short- or long-term.

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Can I enforce my intellectual property rights outside of the United States? Expand

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Should I apply for a foreign patent? Expand

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What is an invention disclosure and why is it important? Expand

Maintaining proper business records is critical to any successful business. Where technology and innovation are involved, complete invention disclosure documents can be important for assuring the protection of intellectual property. For example, invention disclosures provide attorneys important information for preparing and prosecuting a patent to protect important aspects of a company’s technology. Well-maintained invention disclosure records can also help a company fully understand the strengths and weaknesses of its inventory of innovation to better execute the right intellectual property strategy.

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How do patent attorneys draft a patent application? Expand

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What is the difference between patent drafting versus patent prosecution? Expand

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How do I obtain business value from a patent portfolio? Expand

Patents convey the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the inventions claimed in the patents in the country or countries that issued the patents. A patent owner may choose to retain those rights to prevent others from practicing the inventions, particularly when those inventions are embodied in products produced or services provided by the patent owner. Alternately or additionally, the patent owner may instead choose to license some or all of those rights to other entities to generate licensing revenues. Depending on the licensing strategy, license agreements may convey exclusive rights to a single licensee or non-exclusive rights to multiple licensees.

Barcelo, Harrison & Walker LLP handles a wide variety of licensing and transactional matters involving all forms of intellectual property in a diverse range of businesses. Our experience includes licensing, assignments, patent pool evaluations, technology transfer, consulting contracts, determinations of claim essentiality to standards, and confidentiality agreements.

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How does a patent assignment differ from a license? Expand

Patents convey the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the inventions claimed in the patents in the country or countries that issued the patents. To enjoy the benefits of these patent rights, your business should own its patents. However, under U.S. law, only an inventor or an assignee can own a patent and businesses cannot be listed as an inventor. Patent assignment is the legal mechanism to transfer ownership from inventors to your business or from one business to another.

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Can patent rights be used to prevent me from using a standardized technology or selling a product that conforms to an industry standard? Expand

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What are patent pools and what purposes do they serve? Expand

To facilitate adoption of an industry standard and to create efficiencies in granting and obtaining licenses to standards essential patents, licensors sometimes aggregate patents that cover a particular industry standard into a so-called patent pool. By aggregating standards essential patents, patent pools can significantly lower transactions costs for licensors and licensees by creating a one stop marketplace for standard essential patents that may lower barriers to entry and speed adoption of the industry standard.

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