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Simon, Galasso & Frantz's Intellectual Property and Patent Practice Group provides clients with the complete range
of counsel and services, as needed, in the full spectrum of intellectual property law and related legal disciplines.
Those services include:
·-· • Counseling in intellectual property issues-patents, trademarks,
co yng hts, trade secrets, trade dress and unfair competition laws
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• Filing counterpart patent, trademark and copyright applications in foreign countries
U • Advising in the selection and retention of trademarks, service marks and trade names, based on searches in
domestic or international databases
I • Evaluating individual patents and patent portfolios
U • Creating and maintaining collections of competitors‘ patents and trademarks
• Advising, negotiating & drafting patent, trademark, copyright and assignment licensing, royalty sharing and
H technology agreements
` • Counseling regarding patent donations and Research & Development tax credits
H • Counseling regarding patent portfolio mining and evaluation of patents
U GENERAL IP ISSUES
‘ • Establishing and maintaining corporate IP programs
H • Conducting IP audits
_ • Negotiating and drafting IP licenses I
H • Litigating IP issues
U • Conducting due diligence investigations
• Tracking and commenting on IP legislation `
I PATENT ISSUES
I • Patent appeals and interferences y _ l
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V • Patent due diligence
U • Patent litigation
I • Patent protests, reissues and reexaminations
l • Patent audits
li ` TRADEMARK ISSUES
Ig • Trademark counseling and selection
• Trademark and service mark registration
U • Trademark opposition proceedings
I • Trademark and trade dress litigation l _
• Trademark maintenance and policing
I • Internet and domain names
• False advertising
I • Publicity rights
I COPYRIGHT ISSUES
• Copyright registration
I • Copyright litigation
I • Copyright opinions
TRADE SECRET AND CONFIDENTIALITY ISSUES l
I • Trade secret protection programs
l • Confidentiality agreements
l • Trade secret litigation
I Position: Member and Head or intellectual erdpeny Practice, Admided To Bar;
Michigan end Texas, registered Patent Attorney before U.S. Patent and Trademark
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Education: Universi of Michigan (B.S.E.E., cum laude, 1989); University of Detroit
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Mercy (JD., magna cum laude, 1994; M.B.A. magna onm iauoe, 1994), Managing
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Author: “Cooperation Between Elements of a Claim, “lntelleotual Property Today, Vol,
6, No. 11 (November 1999), "The Doctrine of Equivalents and the Seventh
I ` Amendment," The Law Works, Vo. 1, No. 10 (October 1994); "The Conspiracy of
Below Cost Sales — Wake Up America, Take the Offensive, and Start Suing Unfair
-·-- Foreign Competitors, “University of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 70 Issue 1;
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, , . . ; , ; , _ , , . , Position: member and Head of Intellectual Property . ractice. Admitted To Bar: Michigan and .
I Texas, registered Patent Attorney before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Education: University of Michigan (B.S.E.E., cum laude, 1989); University of Detroit Mercy (J.D.,
magna cum laude, 1994; M.B.A. magna cum laude, 1994), Managing Editor, University of Detroit
I MGFGY Law Review. 1992-1993.
Author: "Cooperation Between Elements of a Claim, "lnte|lectual Property Today, Vol. 6, N0. 11
I (November 1999), "The Doctrine of Equivalents and the Seventh Amendment,†The Law Works,
Vo. 1, No. 10 (October 1994); "The Conspiracy of Below Cost Sales — Wake Up America, Take the
Offensive, and Start Suing Unfair Foreign Competitors, "University of Detroit Mercy Law Review,
l Vol. 70 Issue 1; “BuSi¤eSS Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, Inc., “University
‘ of Detroit Mercy Law Review, Vol. 69 Issue 3.
` Raymond M. Galasso
Member: American Intellectual Property Association and Austin Intellectual Property Association.
I; Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Law.
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