Intellectual Property & Technology

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Team is a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys formed to address issues specific to technology companies. Software, hardware, telecommunications, medical products, and high technology manufacturing companies rely on an experienced team capable of meeting their unique needs in today’s competitive marketplace.

Range of services include:

• Preparing and prosecuting US and foreign patents applications.
• Preparing software and other technology development agreements, OEM, VAR, licensing, and distribution agreements.
• Structuring mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Protecting ideas, names, identities, and technologies.
• Intellectual property audits.
• Going public; private venture capital; and bank and other institutional debt financings.
• Structuring employee stock and stock option plans, shareholder agreements, employment agreements, compensation and benefit plans.
• Business formations.
• Structuring and negotiating equity and debt infusions.
  
• Enforcing technology, employment, contractual, and intellectual property rights.
• Contracting with governmental and academic technology developers and users.
• Registering, monitoring, and maintaining trademarks, including the successful representation of clients in trademark and trade dress litigation.
• Business and personal tax planning.
• Negotiating joint ventures, alliances, and strategic partnerships.
• Preparing and arranging multi-jurisdictional coordination of international distribution and other agreements.
• Complying with multi-national governmental regulations.

Nanotechnology

Imagine textiles that you can neither stain nor wrinkle, but maintain the look and feel of fabrics made from natural fibers. Imagine materials that are 100 times stronger than steel, but weigh only one sixth as much. Imagine batteries that take up less than one cubic millimeter, but that can supply a medical implant with power for years. Imagine sensors, smaller than a pin point, that can detect anything in extremely low concentrations, from specific antibodies to toxic chemicals. You are imagining things that already exist as a result of the emerging field of nanotechnology.

The revolutionary possibilities of nanotechnology result from design at the molecular scale. Nanotechnology encompasses life sciences, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Through nanotechnology, nano-developers manipulate single atoms and molecules to create new structures to achieve previously unheard of results.

Nanotechnology is driving a new industrial revolution: one that will change our lives. Investment in nanotechnology has begun to accelerate, governments throughout the world are competing to lead this field. US Government investment in nanotechnology has gone from virtually nothing only a few years ago to well over $600,000,000 per year by 2003. And this figure will be dwarfed by proposed government spending in this field over the next five years.

Industry is also noticing this emerging field: large corporations are creating nanotechnology groups, investment firms are creating nanotechnology funds and new venture capital firms are forming around nanotechnology.

This rapid development is creating a host of legal issues that requires legal expertise and experience in numerous fields.

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP has put together a multidisciplinary team of experts in their respective legal fields to anticipate the legal needs that will be faced by all participants in nanotechnology. We offer counseling in all aspects of nano-business, from large-scale capital investments by established corporations to the emergence of new nano-business companies. We can assist a nano-business in securing patent protection for nano-inventions and we can assist that same nano-business in navigating government regulations that affect everything from funding to environmental protection and employment. By synthesizing the expertise of our diverse professionals into a nanotechnology group, we have helped to lay the foundation for this emerging industry.

Significant Group Accomplishments

News & Events > Find out about an AGG Intellectual Property Audit. > Don Hackney spoke at the State Bar of Georgia Technology Law Section Annual Meeting on "Technical, Business and Legal Aspects of Wi-Fi," May 15. > Arnall Golden Gregory Launches Nanotechnology Practice (press release) > Steve Dorvee presented "Electronic Discovery in Technology Litigation" for the 23rd Annual Institute on Computer Law, February 6-7 at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia. > Steve Dorvee was quoted in the Atlanta Business Chronicle in an article titled "Georgia keeps reeling in new patents" on January 17. > Rebecca Stone spoke at the Technology Law Institute Seminar on October 3 on "Avoid the Pitfalls of Marketing to Consumers - Here's How" and Clint Richardson spoke on October 4 on "Strategies for Drafting Technology Outsourcing Agreements".

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