Dickstein Shapiro attorneys have considerable experience litigating, licensing, preparing, and prosecuting semiconductor patent applications. Our IP attorneys have handled patent litigations for both patent owners and parties accused of infringement in a wide diversity of semiconductor technologies, including chip and circuit designs, semiconductor structure, fabrication processes and equipment and software for designing and manufacturing chips. We also prosecute hundreds of such applications each year in the areas of chip packages, processors, advanced memory structures, imager structures, optical and bio chips, as well as applications directed to various IC components including transistors, resistors, capacitors, and others. Applications to a wide variety of fabrication process and equipment have also been prepared and prosecuted.
Our attorneys are also involved in numerous ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings before the PTO involving patents in the semiconductor area representing requesters and patent owners. In addition, we also represent semiconductor clients in interference proceedings before the PTO.
Both in deciding whether to make major investments in new technologies and to minimize risks of litigations, many clients seek opinions and guidance as to patents that may block their future paths of development. Working closely with our clients to determine their business needs, our attorneys have prepared numerous opinions of counsel relating to the infringement or validity of semiconductor patents, including in the field of manufacturing and fabrication of semiconductor chips and related machinery. Our attorneys have experience negotiating well more than 1,000 patent licenses, many of which relate to semiconductor processes or chips. The firm has also engaged in client counseling in the field of semiconductors, including with respect to the monetization and valuation of semiconductor patents.