Smith & Hopen represents clients world-wide in a practice limited exclusively to intellectual property services. These include patents, trademarks and related litigation. The firm is one of the largest IP practices in the State of Florida and represents clients ranging from independent inventors to Fortune 100 institutions. All attorneys at Smith & Hopen are registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Why you should hire Smith & Hopen P.A.
- Patent Clients: Startups, publicly traded companies and universities
- Experience: Hundreds of patent and trademark grants each year.
- Exclusively IP: Focused… practicing patent, trademark and copyright law exclusively.
- Board Certification: Board certified attorney specialists in IP.
- High-Tech: All our attorneys have scientific and engineering degrees.
- Success: Record-setting patent awards exceeding $70 million.
Patents
Utility patents protect the way something works, an arrangement or composition of matter. Design patents protect the ornamental shape of an article of manufacture.
Trademarks
Trademarks protect source-identifiers….the unique origin of a product or service. Unlike patents and copyrights, properly maintained trademarks may last indefinitely.
Copyrights
Copyrights protect artistic expression reduced to tangible form. This also includes more functional expressions like computer software code. Depositing copyright works provides for substantial damage recovery in the event of infringement.
Trade Secrets
Utility patents protect the way something works, an arrangement or composition of matter. Design patents protect the ornamental shape of an article of manufacture.
Litigation
Trademarks protect source-identifiers….the unique origin of a product or service. Unlike patents and copyrights, properly maintained trademarks may last indefinitely.
Licensing
Copyrights protect artistic expression reduced to tangible form. This also includes more functional expressions like computer software code. Depositing copyright works provides for substantial damage recovery in the event of infringement.