Apex Attorneys at Law, LLP

Whether you are a startup business or a Fortune 500 company, San Francisco Bay Area intellectual property law attorneys can assist you in protecting your intellectual property. With offices in Beijing China and the San Francisco Bay Area, we have extensive experience helping our clients with their needs for intellectual property protection.

The attorneys at Apex Attorneys at Law, LLP, provide legal services to companies ranging from large multinational corpotions to entrepreneurial technology firms. The firm's practice includes intellectual property law related matters including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret protection, as well as corporate law and commercial litigation, as follows:

Patent

Patent prosecution: We prepare and file new patent applications in the following technology areas: software, internet, electronics, medical devices, biotechnology, chemical, pharmaceutical, and mechanical devices. We are also well versed in answering office action, reexamination, and post-grant review.
U.S. national stage patent application filing: Using our state-of-the-art docketing system, we ensure our clients get all the communications from the USPTO quickly and are abreast of filing deadlines.
PCT and international patent application based on Paris Convention: We not only can file your applications abroad in China, we can also help you secure patent protection worldwide.
Other services: patent licensing and assignment, freedom to operate analysis, patentability search, complex patent portfolio management, non-infringement and invalidity opinions.

Trademark

Our services include: Trademarks search, trademark registration at USPTO, international trademark application based on Madrid Protocol, and trademark infringement opinions.

The U.S. Copyright Act generally gives the owner of the copyright the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative work, distribute, public display, and public perform the original works of authorship. Whether you are involved in software development, literary work, music, movies, or photography, you can rely on us to protect your copyright.

Trade Secrets

On the prevention side, we help our clients prepare Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA) and employment agreement that includes assignment of intellectual property rights and maintaining confidential information. However, if trade secrets are allegedly divulged, we provide a steady hand in pursing litigation in order to obtain compensation for our clients.

Technology Contracts

We help our clients negotiate, prepare, and/or review technology contracts including assignment, distribution agreement, license agreement, software development agreement or other technology services agreement, and technology joint development agreement.

Corporate Law

Company formation and registration
Business contracts
Mergers and acquisitions
Private equity and venture capital investment

FDA Practice

We provide services in the following areas: patent issues in NDA, ANDA, and IND for new drug applications submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and 510(k) FDA new medical device premarket notification. Company formation and registration

Intellectual Property Litigation

Whether you are accused of infringing other people's rights, or you feel your intellectual property rights by others, we can help you protect your rights and interests to the fullest extent of law.

Our Practice