Patent and Technology

The Patent and Technology Group at HBD is a nationally recognized leader in successfully representing major corporations and entrepreneurs to acquire, maximize and enforce their intellectual property asset portfolio. HBD lawyers have also enjoyed extraordinary success in defending clients in technology and trade secret disputes. HBD’s senior members have been and continue to be lead trial counsel in major, high stakes patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation for major corporations like Avery Dennison Corporation, and also for well-known inventors and entrepreneurs, like Mr. Ron Popeil.

The most senior member of the Group, Roderick G. Dorman, served as national lead trial counsel, throughout the 1990’s, in intellectual property litigation matters for Gemstar Development Corporation-a company that acquired a $7 billion market cap during that period by the successful acquisition, licensing and enforcement of its patent portfolio directed to interactive, on-screen television program guides and VCR-Plus technology.

The partners of the Patent and Technology Group at HBD have been lead trial counsel in over 170 patent, copyright, and trade secret cases. We also repeatedly and successfully have handled important patent matters before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Whether engaged to assist an owner of intellectual property or to defend against charges of infringement or misappropriation, the attorneys in HBD’s Patent & Technology Group strive to achieve the business goals of the client as effectively and quickly as possible.

For more information about our experience and expertise, please click on the links to the right for additional information about our areas of focus.