Automotive and Smart Mobility Tech is part of our work in Consumer Goods and Services, Electronics and Information Technology, and Transportation and Logistics.
To keep pace with customers’ ever-changing needs for new designs and features, the automotive industry is constantly innovating. Alongside technical advancements such as autonomous and electric vehicles, automakers and suppliers continue driving innovations related to internal combustion, hybrid, and electric powertrains; supply and exhaust systems; instrumentation, batteries, sensors, autonomous guidance, and safety devices and systems; diagnostics, audio/video devices, connectivity, and wiring harnesses. To expand market share, increase profitability, and remain competitive, automotive manufacturers and suppliers constantly seek to develop new product lines, enhance supply chains, improve inventory control, consolidate or outsource resources to improve efficiencies, and identify alternative components or parts. Innovators like these need solid IP protection. 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.
Protecting advancements within the automotive manufacturing and supply chain requires a multidisciplinary IP team. Finnegan’s lawyers and professionals have deep experience in mechanical, electrical, and computer hardware and software technologies, as well as materials science. Over 40 of our professionals are former U.S. patent examiners, many with experience in automotive-related fields such as transmissions; powertrains; suspension systems; brakes and braking systems; lubrication and cooling systems; body and component parts; pump and valve assemblies; car seats and other interior items, including airbags and other safety devices; exhaust systems; GPS and other guidance systems; instrumentation; batteries, alternators, and generators; fuel cells; hybrid vehicles; tires and wheels; and various types of engine systems. In high-stakes cases involving complex matters, our professionals rely on their legal and technical backgrounds to provide insight and advice to clients on issues that have critical business implications.
From determining the competitive landscape for new products to developing sophisticated litigation strategies, we help by:
4:23-cv-02961, S.D. Tex., Judge Rosenthal
337-TA-1267, ITC, Judge Bhattacharyya
IPR2021-01321, -01531, PTAB, Judges Baer, Fenick, Iftikhar
2:21-cv-00054; -00172, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap
337-TA-1267, ITC, Judge Bhattacharyya
22-2012, Fed. Cir., Judges Hughes, Reyna, Stark
IPR2021-00181, PTAB, Judges Deshpande, Hagy, Wieker
1:20-cv-01907, N.D. Ga., Judge Grimberg
1:21-cv-00030, D. Del., Judge Bryson
Representing client ePropelled in a patent infringement suit filed in the District of Massachusetts, and in a co-pending IPR before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Defending ePropelled against claims of defamation in co-pending Massachusetts Superior Court action. The matters relate to clean power electronics and electric vehicle motors.
IPR2022-01154, PTAB
1:22-cv-10090, D. Mass., Judge Sorokin
2281-cv-01038, Massachusetts Superior Court, Judge Wall
2:21-CV-00389, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap
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