North America - United States • Intellectual property
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Greenberg Traurig‘s ’top-notch’ team has strong national coverage of the US with co-heads of the practice Barry Schindler, Melissa Hunter-Ensor and Heath Briggs working from the firm’s New Jersey, Boston and Denver offices respectively; the three also co-chair the firm’s global patent prosecution group. The Atlanta team was bolstered in August 2023 with the arrival of patent specialist Trenton Ward from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP. The team is equipped to advise clients from start-ups to such well-known companies as Yahoo and Capital One on the array of patent matters. In Boston, ‘very well-respected attorney’ Chinh Pham has experience representing start-ups, while the ’brilliant’ David Dykeman has notable expertise in life sciences and medical tech work.
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Testimonials
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‘Our company has used this practice for our intellectual property strategy and execution and the experience has been excellent. The quality of the work is exceptional and the partners and associates are top-notch in their field.’
‘We have predominantly worked with Chinh Pham at Greenberg Traurig's Boston office. Chinh is a very well-respected attorney and was previously the President of the Boston Bar Association. Chinh brings an IP strategy that is highly focused on value creation. This strategic focus works exceptionally well for us as a start-up because so much of the value of our company is in the IP itself.’
‘The Greenberg Traurig teams we use are incredibly effective, they maximize efficiency and communicate with us often in order to stay on track. The teams have a leader who has great strategic skills to maximize the utility of the patents to our company's corporate goals, and has professionals with the unusual combination of technical and interpersonal skills which is very important.’
‘The team managing our medical device company patent work includes David Dykeman; Roman Fayerberg and Chase Means. David Dykeman is brilliant at deciding which patents are critical for the business' strategic goals and is extremely effective communicator and leader. Roman Fayerberg understands the critical innovations of the company, how to craft the innovations into valuable claims, and negotiations with the PTO.'
'Chase Means is an incredibly intelligent associate who has an amazing understanding of technology and how to protect key innovations through disclosures and patent claims
- 'Andrew Tibbetts is involved in medical digital patents and is a master at understanding patentable material and how to create a valuable patent portfolio to enable the company's strategic goals. He works with David Dykeman at the highest level of matching innovation; crafting patents, and creating patent value for the company.’
‘The team is so motivated and genuinely interested and quick to learn the IP target. They bring a wealth and depth of knowledge and are diverse. They also aren't afraid to speak up and suggest a few creative ways of looking at the issues at hand. I trust them completely with the tasks and the follow-up.’
‘Professionalism, integrity and quick turnaround and successful in patent approval matters! ’
Key clients
- Yahoo Inc.
- Unilever
- Broadridge Financial Services, Inc
- Capital One
- GoDaddy
- Embecta Corp.
- IlluminOss Medical, Inc.
- Provention Bio
- Carter’s Inc. / Skip Hop Inc.
- The Home Depot, Inc.
- PayPal, Inc.
- Aspira Women’s Health (formerly Vermillion)
- Arconic Corp.
Work highlights
- Serving as the primary provider of IP services for Broadridge Financial Services, a provider of trade-processing technology.
- Managing, developing and assisting Yahoo Inc. in growing a major portion of its worldwide patent assets.
- Helping Provention Bio Inc. with the IP aspects of its completion a $2.9bn acquisition by Sanofi.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Barry Schindler, Melissa Hunter-Ensor, Heath Briggs