Products and services used in everyday life are continuously and rigorously put to the test. Whether buying kitchen appliances or using banking services, consumers rely on innovative companies to keep meeting their needs, making competition fierce. Companies building products and delivering services have got to stay a step ahead with innovating to keep and create markets, while taking care that their brand remains trusted across product lines. Goods and services, ranging from tangible to digital, durable to non-durable, necessary to purely pleasure, drive the consumer spending many economies depend on. Finnegan has long assisted the broad spectrum of industries catering to consumers, working with some of the world’s most well-known brands to protect their ideas and execute commercial solutions so we can help keep commerce flowing and consumers consuming.
Companies dedicated to consumer markets must know and understand the influence of IP law on their businesses. Finnegan’s professionals bring a mix of technical training and business savvy to their IP legal practices to craft with clients comprehensive and holistic IP strategies that are on pace with today’s business landscapes and forecasting ahead to tomorrow’s. We help by:
Comprehensive legal, technical, and strategic experience protecting innovations
Our Consumer Goods and Services practice includes attorneys and professionals with degrees in relevant scientific disciplines such as electrical engineering, chemistry, computer science, mechanical engineering, and physics, as well as attorneys with extensive experience in brand management and protection. Many joined Finnegan after holding positions in industry, at universities, or as examiners with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Innovation in the AR/VR space takes many forms, including branding, digital media, software, hardware, designs, and other intellectual assets. Navigating the IP landscape in this rapidly evolving marketplace is a complex endeavor.
Finnegan has a long history of working with automakers and suppliers in the automotive industry building legal strategies designed to help protect, advocate, and leverage their high-value IP assets.
Finnegan’s consumer product experience spans cosmetics, food and beverage, health and beauty, nutrition, sports equipment, electronics, and more. We have a long history of working with these diverse industries and understand the fast pace of development and improvements, the changing needs of consumers, and the power of a strong brand.
Consumers have access to an ever-growing number of affordable and portable devices designed to provide metrics and details about personal health and lifestyle. In an increasingly connected world, this type of information can be invaluable in helping healthcare professionals provide higher levels of care.
Protecting innovations related to financial services, software, and life sciences has for decades presented unique challenges. Finnegan has played a role in some of the seminal court cases involving the scope of patent protection. With our historical insight and sharp focus on the everchanging patent eligibility landscape, we work with clients across a broad range of technologies.
It is no surprise that food and beverage companies invest substantial resources creating new products and unique ways to package and market them. Companies must protect these investments by obtaining and protecting the underlying intellectual property rights that result from their innovation.
Protecting IP in this ultra-competitive market is an elaborate task due to the various technologies and intellectual properties often involved with cutting-edge gaming innovation. In collaboration with clients, we develop comprehensive, holistic IP strategies designed to protect the spectrum of their technology and innovation.
Technological advances in the fields of semiconductors, sensors, digital imaging, wireless communications, control software, and material science have contributed to the resurgence in robotics research and development. Finnegan works with leaders and innovators in the diverse markets that have contributed to recent and evolving developments in the robotics arena.
From “apps” on a phone for health-conscious consumers, to data-measuring wearables for competing athletes, to esports, a wide variety of performance technology, gaming leagues, and lifestyle products have entered the mainstream. To keep pace with customer demand, companies are tasked with continually inventing, manufacturing, and branding new and innovative products.
From protecting vulnerable crops, helping doctors improve their patient’s lives, and monitoring your vital signs, to improving the comfort of your clothing—textiles are everywhere. Textiles comprise a broad and diverse range of products used in myriad applications.
2:19-cv-01480, C.D. Cal., Judge Wu
23-1150, 4th Cir.
After a four-day trial, secured a jury ruling for Under Armour that Armorina’s use of the ARMORINA mark constitutes trademark infringement, unfair competition, and trademark dilution.
1:19-cv-02417, D. Md., Judge Boardman
2:22-cv-00507, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap
2:22-cv-0318, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap
1:23-cv-00756, N.D. Ill., Judge Kocoras
IPR2023-00815, -00816, -00817, PTAB
21-1517, Fed. Cir., Judges Moore, Newman, Hughes
IPR2019-00683, PTAB, Judges Zecher, Jurgovan, Zado
2-cv-00155, E.D. Tex., Judges Gilstrap, Payne
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