BHW attorneys work with our startup clients from the earliest concept stages, through company formation, and throughout product development and manufacturing to ensure comprehensive legal support.
Concept Phase - Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy
Businesses often want to know if their next product will be clear of their competitors’ patent claims, or if their continued sales are infringing some patent that has been brought to their attention. A clearance search is a comparison of a client’s product, service, or brand against the known or searchable intellectual property rights of others, for example a competitor, vendor, or customer. Our clients may request or benefit from a clearance search to support decisions regarding product or logo design, design-around efforts, corporate acquisitions, supplier choices and agreements, customer negotiations, determining appropriate settlement terms for infringement litigation, or other business and legal situations.
We have the credentials and experience to provide our clients with clearance opinions and right-to-use investigations that they can reasonably rely upon to manage business and litigation risk.
Company Formation
BHW can guide startups through company formation, including coordination with corporate counsel to form an LLC (Limited Liability Company) or other corporate entity.
Product Development and Manufacturing
Hundreds of decisions greet entrepreneurs starting to manufacture their products. Where should the plant be? How big? What equipment is needed? How much capital? How many workers? Skilled or unskilled? How much inventory and where to source it? What are the risks? Can we entice investors? Is this going to work?
BHW attorneys all have advanced engineering degrees and decades of involvement in manufacturing across many industries. These big-little decisions should not be undertaken without professional input. Good upfront counsel can save time, money, headaches, and heartaches. BHW can provide ongoing advice regarding intellectual property, technical and business issues to refine the product for the market and follow-on roll-out of product lines.
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.