Our practice has grown in all areas of intellectual property law and is well balanced in providing service to local, domestic and international clients. Our practice counsels on a range of complex technical issues.

We have been successful on behalf of these clients. Our success is the result of a comprehensive ability to grasp all facets of technology and expertise in legal issues guiding the acquisition, defense and transfer of valuable intellectual property assets.

By its very nature, the practice of intellectual property law requires that our attorneys be on the forefront of new and emerging technologies.

All of the patent attorneys at Wood, Herron & Evans have undergraduate science/engineering degrees. Many have graduate and doctoral degrees in their technical specialty. Our attorneys are trained engineers, chemists, metallurgists, computer and software scientists, biologists, microbiologists, biochemists and physicists. Many have industry experience that allows them to better understand their clients' needs and technology. In addition to industry experience, many are published authors in various trade journals and national publications. We are proud that approximately one-third of our partners are listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Our range of experience includes younger associates recruited intensively for their legal abilities and training in emerging new technologies to veterans whose proven success spans several decades.

We deliver quality legal counsel with a managed team approach. In our system, a lead attorney is closely associated with the client's research and commercial activities and directs a team knowledgeable in relevant areas of technology and business to handle the client's legal concerns. We handle our clients' IP needs with respect to patent, trademark, copyright and other trade-related issues.

This managed team approach enables us to maximize our clients' results and the impact of Wood, Herron & Evans' technical and legal expertise. For our clients the results are:

• Cost-effective service.
• Focused legal strategy and thoughtful counsel.
• Timely response to deadlines and challenges.
• Service appropriately tailored to our clients' business goals.

Cost efficiency is a priority of our client service. We undertake tasks only with client approval. We charge reasonable fees well below those often found in most other major metropolitan areas. However, our attorneys have qualifications that meet or exceed those of other IP attorneys throughout the country and the world. We work to develop cost consciousness in each client relationship by:

• Assisting them in handling procedures they can perform themselves.
• Educating their personnel to be sensitive to potential problem areas before they become crises.
• Creating form contracts for use in standard situations.
• Providing cost estimates to encourage client cost/value analysis of planned procedures.

Monthly client billings are based on detailed computer printouts of time and cost records, which are maintained by an experienced accounting department. We encourage clients to review services and to grade our cost efficiency.

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