Chernoff Vilhauer has substantial expertise in advising clients regarding their rights, obligations, plans, and internal management of intellectual property assets.

The firm offers counseling on such IP-specific matters as:

The validity and scope of U.S. and foreign intellectual property rights
Freedom-to-commercialize searches and opinions
How to protect research and development
Whether to pursue trade secret or patent protection
Selection of new product names,trademarks and designs
Licensing, joint development, consulting, confidentiality, and employee inventorship and research development agreements
Patent strategies that protect against competitors who try to design around clients' patents
Counseling with respect to actual and potential intellectual property disputes
Identifying intellectual property goals and providing strategies to achieve these goals