Kean Miller maintains one of the largest patent, trademark and copyright practices in Louisiana.  Our intellectual property team provides counseling on how to best protect proprietary assets and represents clients in infringement litigation or other types of litigation involving intellectual property.  Kean Miller handles intellectual property cases in many areas, including the preparation and prosecution of patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patentability studies, patent infringement opinions, evaluation of trademark searches, the preparation and prosecution of state and federal trademark registrations, and preparation of copyright registrations.

We establish proprietary programs for businesses, to include the preparation of non disclosure and non compete agreements, representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in infringement litigation involving patents, trademarks, or copyrights and in business litigation with claims of unfair competition or theft of trade secrets, and intellectual property valuations.

Representative Experience:

• Representation of a Fortune 500 company in all aspects of its intellectual property portfolio.

• Representation of a publicly-traded advertising company in various aspects of its intellectual property portfolio, patent protection, and patent infringement litigation.

• Representation of regional grocery cooperative in all aspects of its intellectual property protection, licensing agreements, consulting agreements, and other arrangements relating to the development and application of computer software.

• Representation of designers and manufacturers in copyright infringement and unfair competition actions in United States District Court.

• Representation of a regional telecommunications company with respect to trademark protection and in connection with false advertising claims.

• Representation of a national home health provider in a complex copyright infringement claim.
  

• Representation of a bottler of distilled water in a trademark infringement matter.
  

• Successful representation of a manufacturer of a home improvement product in a significant patent infringement lawsuit.

• Negotiation of a biotechnology joint venture involving a major medical foundation.  

• Representation of large industrial company in defending claims of conversion, misappropriation of trade secrets involving project control system software.

• Representation of a national manufacturer of wildlife nutritional products in protecting and enforcing its trademark portfolio.

• Representation of chemical research corporation in a patent infringement lawsuit. 

• Representation of major hunting industry manufacturer in all aspects of its intellectual property development and technology licensing program. 

• Representation of various retailers, restaurants, advertising companies and other businesses in a wide variety of trademark and copyright matters.

• Representation of a large manufacturer in enforcing copyrights and trademarks and in defending antitrust allegations.

• Representation of trademark owners in unique issues involving the Anti-Cybersquatting Piracy Act (“ACPA”).

• Representation of a manufacturer in defending trade secret and unfair competition claims.

• Representation of authors and artists with respect to protection of designs and characters.
  

Representative Industries:

• Advertising
• Engineering
• Telecommunications
  
• Hunting and Fishing
• Bioscience
• Chemical and manufacturing
• Computers and technology
• Electronics
• Healthcare and medical devices
• Energy and electricity
• Software
• Waste treatment
• Retail
• Restaurants

Areas of Expertise:

• Patents
• Trademarks
• Copyrights
• Trade secrets
• Trade dress
• Unfair competition
• False advertising
  
• Business method patents
• Infringement litigation
• Internet legal issues