Kunzler & Mckenzie

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Intellectual Property Litigation
Confidentiality & Non-Compete Agreements
Internet Name Disputes

The Utah Patent Attorneys at Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe (KNMT) prepare and prosecute high-value patent applications for international corporations and innovative start-ups. Our intellectual property clients include IBM, Hitachi, Cummins, and Lenovo (), as well as local firms such as Fusion-io and MonaVie. Our international clients give us the experience to help you secure and maintain the broadest protection for your intellectual property (IP).

In business, it is hard to stay on top. Yesterdays unstoppable leaders are all too often today's bankruptcy filings. To get to the top, and stay there, you need to create competitive advantages. Unfortunately, with modern supply chains, a new competitive advantage can often be copied in weeks, sometimes days. Patent protection allows you to lengthen the life of your competitive advantages and keep your business on top.

Our attorneys are experienced in protecting a wide variety of innovations, including power systems, engine design, robotics, software, database design, semiconductors, and consumer products. Because of our experience, we understand the many different ways of implementing your invention, and can design your application to protect against those implementations. Contact us for a free consultation and begin protecting your invention.

Our attorneys also have extensive experience enforcing patent, trademark, and domain name rights through litigation and negotiation, as well as successfully defending clients that have been wrongly accused of infringement. We are particularly well versed in protecting intellectual property in China.

Some patent holders may try to extort royalty payments for patents unrelated to your products or business. We are experienced in defending clients from infringement claims, and can aid you in resolving infringement claims, often without the expense of a trial.

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