R. Mark Halligan

FisherBroyles recognizes that the success of many companies in today’s economy depends upon their ability to create, identify and protect their intellectual property rights.  From high-tech startups to established Fortune 500 companies, FisherBroyles attorneys have assisted their clients in establishing and protecting their intellectual property rights, both in the U.S. and abroad.  Because of our experience working within companies, we can help our clients at all stages in the life cycle of intellectual property, from helping employers ensure that they own the intellectual property work product of their employees and contractors, to helping companies identify new intellectual property they have created, to obtaining formal protection for new brands, ideas and innovations, to defending those valuable property rights from third-party infringers.  Our expertise includes the following offerings:

• Patent Prosecution and Licensing
• Trademark Prosecution and Licensing
• Domestic and International Trademark Portfolio Management
• Copyright Registration and Licensing
• Rights management
• Domain Name Registration
• Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Transactional Matters
• Intellectual Property Agreements with Employees and Contractors
• Trade Secret Agreement
• Intellectual Property Audits
• Patent and Trademark clearance and enforcement
• Patent and Trademark portfolio management
• Trade secret protection
• Internet and Social Media advice

Disputed Matters:

• Infringement Opinions
• “Design-Around” Assistance
• Cease-and-Desist Letters
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Proceedings
• Domain Name Disputes
• Patent Inter partes review
• Patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation

Our focus is on long-term client satisfaction; not short term profits. We eliminated billing quotas because we believe they encourage inefficiency and conflicts between what the attorney wants and what the client needs. We do not employ inexperienced attorneys who require partner supervision and add an additional layer of fees. All FisherBroyles attorneys are full partners and veterans of some of the largest and most sophisticated law firms and corporate legal departments in the U.S.

Our Law Firm 2.0® business model simply allows FisherBroyles to produce high quality work product, deliver it faster and more efficiently, and offer rates that are logical, predictable, and flexible.