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Overview
Intellectual Property
We build, commercialize, and enforce IP assets globally.
Issues related to Intellectual Property (“IP”) are of great significance to our clients. In business, competition for growth is fierce and IP assets should help drive that growth. However, an increasingly complex landscape of laws, regulations, and legal decisions poses a constant challenge. Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s IP practice group prides itself on navigating this landscape to achieve results for its clients in building, commercializing, and enforcing IP rights. We stand out because we not only know our clients’ business and technology, we know our clients’ competitors and industries and use our legal and business experience to maximize our clients’ competitive advantage. We are relentless advocates for our clients. We prioritize our partnership and respond quickly to business demands by offering actionable solutions to lower risk while maximizing opportunity.
Our team of professionals with technical backgrounds, advanced degrees, and industry experience provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary IP and technology law services to clients worldwide. Our services include defending or prosecuting claims of improper taking or misuse of IP. Our team also negotiates agreements to transfer and commercialize IP and technology around the world, including licensing and mergers and acquisitions. Our services also include filing and prosecuting applications to protect and preserve new IP as well as challenging or defending patents and trademarks at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Our IP team also provides strategic counseling, including evaluating existing IP.
Our extensive IP experience includes working with top Fortune® 100 and other large companies on complex IP issues in industries such as computers and technology, semiconductors, air conditioning, oil and gas equipment and services, and petroleum refining. However, we also emphasize working with small and medium-sized companies in a broad range of technologies. In 2019 alone, our IP team filed over 380 U.S. patent applications and 350 international applications in multiple technology areas.
Our specialties include:
News
News
- Firm Welcomes New Chief Operating Officer and It's First Chief Business Development and Marketing OfficerOctober 8, 2024
- Houston-based Team Supports Client's Rapid GrowthSeptember 19, 2024
- Houston-based Team Represented NOVUM Consulting Group in New PartnershipSeptember 4, 2024
- Houston Office Adds Associates in Three Practice GroupsAugust 9, 2024
- Habeeb (Hobbs) Gnaim and David Pierson Win Deal of the Year AwardJuly 17, 2024
- Strong 2023 Performance Moves Chamberlain Hrdlicka into the Am Law 200 for the first timeMay 13, 2024
- Habeeb 'Hobbs' Gnaim Led Two Transactions Winning ACG 7th Annual Deal of the Year AwardsApril 30, 2024
- The partnership will enable DermaTouch to rapidly scale in the aesthetics industryJanuary 30, 2024
- Habeeb ‘Hobbs’ Gnaim led Two Transactions Winning Deal of the Year at the 22nd Annual M&A Advisor Awards GalaDecember 14, 2023
- Habeeb "Hobbs" Gnaim led team Represented The Tarp Depot, Inc. in its Sale to Impact Environmental GroupSeptember 28, 2023
- For the Third Straight Year, Chamberlain Hrdlicka an HBJ Best Place to WorkSeptember 7, 2023
- Best Lawyers in America® recognizes 87 Chamberlain Hrdlicka attorneys in a peer selection process for the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in AmericaAugust 17, 2023
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s continued growth in Texas drives strategic office renovations in Houston and San AntonioAugust 4, 2023
- Team led by Habeeb (Hobbs) Gnaim and David Pierson represented ZT Corporate in Acquisition of Exceptional Emergency Center’s Texas LocationsJuly 24, 2023
- Client Deal led by Habeeb ‘Hobbs’ Gnaim Wins ACG Houston Deal of the Year Award in Industrial Services – Corporate Strategic Acquisition CategoryApril 26, 2023
- Juristat’s Top Patent Firms ranks Chamberlain Hrdlicka for second year in a rowMarch 10, 2023
- Houston and San Antonio offices of Chamberlain Hrdlicka expand with recent new hiresJanuary 3, 2023
- Houstonia names 30 Chamberlain Hrdlicka attorneys as 2022 Top LawyersNovember 30, 2022
- Jeffrey Della Rocco, Lauren Herrera, Jack Li, Jason Patton and Karen Tate join Chamberlain HrdlickaMarch 17, 2022
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka ranked in the Technology Center 2100 CategoryFebruary 2, 2022
- Ali, Dean, Foreman, McMichael, Sima and Tate Join Chamberlain Houston OfficeDecember 21, 2021
- Best Lawyers in America® selects 54 Chamberlain Hrdlicka Attorneys for Recognition for 2022August 19, 2021
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka attorneys are ranked in Appellate, Commercial Litigation, Construction, Corporate, Criminal Defense, Employee Benefits, Energy, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Real Estate, Tax, and Trust & EJune 22, 2021
- January 11, 2021
- Houstonia Magazine names Chamberlain Attorneys as 2021 Top LawyersHoustonia Magazine, November 30, 2020
- Technology & IP Transactions Practice LaunchJune 10, 2020
- Sebastien Chain, Justin VandenBout and Jaime Vasquez named 2020 Rising StarsMarch 10, 2020
- December 2019
- Law360, November 22, 2019
- Law360, November 12, 2019
- August 15, 2019
- April 2017
Presentations
Seminars & Presentations
- Leveraging AI for the Middle MarketCity View, September 10, 2024
- Aly Dossa, Jennifer Karpchuk, Michael Overstreet, Nicole Shanklin & Joshua Sutin presenting: 2024 New Year, New Issues: A Day In the Life of The C-SuiteVirtual Webinar, February 6, 2024
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka Annual Tax and International Business Planning Seminar will present a variety of important and timely topicsEstancia del Norte Hotel, 37 NE Loop 410 at McCullough, November 8, 2023
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka will host Laredo Tax and Business Planning Seminar at the Laredo Country Club on November 8, 2022November 8, 2022
- Chamberlain Hrdlicka will have our 5th Annual San Antonio Tax and Business Planning Seminar at The St. Anthony Hotel on November 3, 2022November 3, 2022
- 43rd Annual Tax and Business Planning Virtual Seminar is on November 2-4, 2021November 4, 2021
- Houston Marriott Westchase, October 30, 2018
Publications
Publications
- Texas Lawyer, March 28, 2019
- Intellectual Property Magazine, March 1, 2019
- Intellectual Property Magazine, February 13, 2019