IP Litigation

The IP litigation, arbitration and mediation team at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd is highly experienced in the field, and dedicated to their clients' success.

Our attorneys assist our clients by drafting agreements to protect against unauthorized disclosure or misappropriation of trade secrets and other intellectual property, to facilitate limited information sharing among parties to our clients’ business arrangements and to limit the use of confidential information as a basis of competition with our client.

The IP team at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd supports clients with infringement evaluation determinations relating to trade secrets and other forms of intellectual property and provides counsel on an appropriate enforcement action when infringement occurs.

IP LITIGATION, ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION EXPERIENCE:

• Creation of strategy to protect patent rights against multiple infringers, and prosecution of first action
• Defense of original equipment manufacturer against successive claims of copyright and trademark infringement by one of the world's largest software developers
• Prosecution of defective software action in arbitration on behalf of a multi-national client who had purchased an enterprise-critical software system for handling client's product development know-how
• Settlement of client’s claim that its customer was violating the license terms for client’s proprietary inventory-control and order-processing supply chain software
• Defense of scholarly non-profit against copyright infringement claim by major university regarding unpublished first novel manuscript of important author, in significant Fourth Circuit fair use case
• Representation of architects and construction firms, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in a series of Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act cases
• Representation of parties in patent infringement litigation from simple to complex technologies
• Settlement of client’s claim that its customer was violating the license terms for client’s proprietary inventory-control and order-processing supply chain software