Intellectual property & technology law · San Francisco
A boutique of former engineers who became patent attorneys. We draft claims a competitor can't design around, and we negotiate the deals that turn a technical edge into leverage.
Filed a 34-application portfolio covering model-compression and scheduling techniques ahead of a competitive round; structured to survive an acquirer's diligence.
Represented a fabless chip designer in an ITC-adjacent dispute; negotiated a royalty-bearing cross-licence that kept product on shelves through launch.
Ran technical diligence on 800+ assets, cleared open-source exposure, and drafted the IP schedules for a strategic acquirer's definitive agreement.
Defeated an inter partes review petition against a client's core computational-photography patent; all challenged claims confirmed patentable.
Drafting and prosecution by attorneys who can read your codebase and your circuit diagrams.
Inbound and outbound licences, cross-licences, and the royalty structures that make them hold.
Infringement, IPR, and post-grant proceedings — asserting your patents and defending against theirs.
Clearance, registration, and enforcement for product names, marks, and trade dress worldwide.
Audits, policy, and remediation so a licence obligation never surfaces mid-acquisition.
Training-data rights, model licensing, and the IP questions generative systems raise.
Every attorney here holds a technical degree and shipped real work before law school — compilers, silicon, medical devices. It means we don't need your CTO to translate. We read the spec, understand the invention, and write claims that map to how the technology actually works.
We stay small so a partner drafts your applications, not a first-year you never meet. Fixed fees on prosecution, and no matter opens without a scope you approved.