Friedland Cianfrani has the expertise of a large IP firm and the focus, service, and efficiency of a boutique. The firm provides outstanding representation in patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation, trademark prosecution, and IP agreements and transactions. We protect our clients' IP strategically, enforce their rights aggressively, and defend them fiercely.
Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret, and Copyright Litigation
We’ve delivered wins for clients of every type and size, from some of the largest and best-known companies in the world to small start-ups, including U.S. and international clients. We're at home in nearly every industry, from medical devices to software, semiconductors, electric vehicles, consumer products, apparel, accessories, sporting goods, tactical products, beauty products, furniture, beverages, and fast food.
We’ve achieved client goals in every type of IP case: utility patent, design patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright. We've designed and executed our clients' brand protection and patent enforcement campaigns, and we've defeated cases brought by competitors and non-practicing entities.
Our lawyers have represented both plaintiffs and defendants in more than 300 IP cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts across the country, as well as IPRs before the PTAB, oppositions and cancellations before the TTAB, and mediations and arbitrations. We have also managed our clients’ litigation overseas.
Name the type of client, the industry, the case, the venue; we’ve most likely already done it.
Trademark Prosecution, Search, and Clearance
We prosecute and manage trademarks for businesses of all sizes. We've represented some of the largest and most aggressive trademark owners in the world, as well as small businesses and start-ups. Our expertise includes all aspects of brand protection, from counseling to trademark filing and prosecution (U.S. and international), oppositions and cancellations before the TTAB, searching and clearance, enforcement, defense against trademark assertions, and domain name disputes before the World Intellectual Property Organization.
IP Counseling, Transactions, and Agreements
We advise our clients on all IP issues, from developing strategies for protecting our clients' intellectual property to strategies for avoiding the IP of competitors. We advise our clients on intellectual property transactions and due diligence, and we negotiate and prepare our clients' agreements relating to intellectual property, including licenses, assignments, and non-disclosure agreements.
Recognized Excellence
Our partners have been named to the “World’s Leading Patent Professionals” list for litigation in the Patent 1000 guide by Intellectual Asset Management Magazine; Legal 500 for Patent Litigation; Best Lawyers in America for Intellectual Property Litigation and Patent Law; Best Lawyers/Ones to Watch for Intellectual Property Litigation and Patent Litigation, Lawyer of the Year for Intellectual Property Litigation; Best Lawyers of Orange County Litigation/Patent Lawyer of the Year; Leading Trademark Lawyer by World Trademark Review; and Super Lawyer by Thompson/Reuters.
We’ve been invited to speak by the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the International Trademark Association (INTA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, the Orange County Intellectual Property Law Association, the Orange County Bar Association’s IP section, the Association of Corporate Counsel, Orange County Innovation Week, the Harvard Business School Association, the Harvard Law School Association, and the Intellectual Property Rights Practice Group Teleforum, among others.
We have written articles published in Law360, ABA Landslide, The Trademark Lawyer, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Recorder, Law.com, The Orange County Business Journal, IP Watchdog, The Licensing Journal, and Engage, among others. We’ve authored and edited dozens of amicus briefs submitted to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the AIPLA and other organizations.
The Benefit of Experience
We personally prepare our cases, from developing strategy, to drafting pleadings and motions, to taking and defending depositions, to arguing motions, to working cases up for trial. Our clients get the benefit of our commitment and experience, and the efficiency that comes from that experience, in every project.
Our experience also means we don’t spend our time—that is, our clients’ time—figuring out how to do something for the first time. We’ve seen it and done it before. We’ve already written that motion, or we’ve already opposed it. We know the courts, the controlling cases, and how to make the winning arguments.
The Power of Teamwork
We come to our office. Not just when we have meetings. Not two or three days a week. We're in, enthusiastically, every single day. We do it because we really love what we do, and because the best way to ensure that our clients receive the highest quality of representation is in-person collaboration. We enjoy bouncing ideas off each other, strategizing together, inspiring each other. We know that some of the best ideas and best outcomes can come from the accident of proximity. Another lawyer will overhear a conversation and suggest a better way to frame an argument. It’s happened hundreds of times in our careers, and it can only happen when lawyers work together in person.
Latest News and Coming Events
Joe Cianfrani will speak at a webinar on "The Federal Circuit's Reliance on One-Word Affirmances Under Rule 36: Is it Lawful?" The webinar will be presented on February 25 and will also feature Robert J. Rando of Greenspan Marder LLP and Amit R. Vora of Kasowitz Benson Torres. For more information and to register for the webinar, visit here.
David Kim has been named to the Board of Directors of the Orange County Intellectual Property Law Association.
The firm is proud to announce that Nicole Townes has joined the firm as partner. "We're so excited to have Nicole join us," said Joe Cianfrani. "We'd worked with her for years at our prior firm, and we saw first-hand what an incredible IP litigator and trademark prosecutor she is. On top of that, Nicole brings a fresh perspective--she served for the past three years as in-house trademark counsel for one of the largest companies in the world." For more information, visit here.
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