Skillful intellectual property management helps you plan intelligently for the future and avoid potential problems. We will help you claim future markets, secure your supply channels, and assess the risks and benefits of asserting your intellectual property rights and challenging the intellectual property rights of others.

Check the horizon for ways to manage risk

S&L advised a Fortune 100 building-products client to pursue "picket fence" patent applications for an incipient technology. This protected the technology - which turned into a multi-million dollar market and the exclusive province of the client - for many years. When a competitor later attempted market entry, the patents kept the contender at bay and let the client recover damages for the infringement.