Intellectual property (IP) is an increasingly important and complex area of law, critical to long-term success and viability of a business. Intellectual property law involves taking advantage of federal and state IP laws to perfect and use rights in intellectual assets. Reston Law Group, LLP (Reston Law) IP attorneys practice in all areas of the protection, licensing and enforcement of individual and corporate inventor innovations and creative works. Reston Law attorneys protect ideas using confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements to maintain rights in trade secrets and know-how, and draft original Letters Patents to obtain US and international Patent rights. Reston Law lawyers protect client’s works of authorship using copyright registrations. Our attorneys assist in building brands and protecting corporate identity via filing federal trademark registration applications, and worldwide using international treaty conventions. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing client businesses and individuals. An experienced IP lawyer can help you secure your rights in these important assets. Our partners Ralph P. Albrecht and Jesse A. Fenty are US Registered Patent Attorneys with decades of experience drafting patents, copyrights, and trademarks for clients. Reston Law attorneys have extensive experience preparing technology license agreements, IP licenses (exclusive and nonexclusive), and related agreements.
Providing Complete IP Services
Each partner in our intellectual property practice has more than 25 years of experience helping clients protect their interests in intellectual property matters. They have comprehensive understanding of the law and provide customized solutions designed specifically to accommodate the requirements of your unique situation. From researching and filing initial trademark applications and handling trademark prosecution issues, to drafting and prosecuting patent applications, to registering copyrights in and the licensing of software and other technology, we are committed to obtaining a favorable outcome in every IP-related matter.
Our attorneys have an international network of law firms in foreign jurisdictions, which we use to seek protection of client patents, trademarks and other IP in foreign countries. Our attorneys have extensive experience counseling clients on protecting patent rights abroad by filing direct foreign patent applications in various countries and multi-national regions including the European Patent Organization (EPO), under the Paris Convention, and via international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications and related national phase patent applications, as well as foreign counterpart trademark applications directly abroad under the Paris Convention, or in various regions including the Community Trademark (CTM) in Europe, and internationally via the Madrid Protocol system.
We help clients in the following areas of intellectual property law:
Reston Law attorneys help clients from a variety of high technology industries including:
- Air vehicle technologies – unmanned air vehicles (UAV), vertical take off and landing (VTOL), electric VTOL (eVTOL)
- Athletic training and sporting equipment
- Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality(VR), mixed reality and metaverse
- Clean Energy technologies
- Computer Hardware and Software Systems Technology
- Communications Network protocols for wireless and wired telecommunications networks
- Communications processing
- Computer and information systems network security, including cryptographic systems
- Computer application software, including application, middleware, and operating systems
- Computer memory storage devices, including magnetic and solid-state semiconductor memory technologies, (e.g., DRAM, SRAM, Flash, etc.)
- Computer power supply systems and power management subsystems
- Computer processor system architectures, microprocessors, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), microcontrollers, and systems on a chip (SoC)
- Cryptographic algorithms
- Cybersecurity and Information Security
- Database Systems (Flat file, Hierarchical, Relational and Graph)
- Data Center & Cloud infrastructure, hardware, networking (routers, gateways and switches), and software
- Electric vehicle (EV), car and automotive related technologies
- Electronic devices and electrical circuit schematics systems
- Electro-Mechanical devices
- Energy and Power generation systems (Renewables, Solar, Wind, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Nuclear, Small Reactor, and Nanofuel Engine technology)
- Energy-related technologies, including power generation, alternative energy, renewable, and energy distribution technologies
- Energy storage devices including battery technologies, and solid-state battery technologies
- Financial services and asset allocation quantitative information system technology business methods, and banking and payment processing systems and financial technology (Fintech)
- Hospitality, Travel and Guest Services Support Technologies
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Medical device systems and remote medicine
- Robotics, Automation, Autonomous and Sensor-based systems
- Semiconductors and solid-state devices
- Space, satellite communication, and launch based systems
- Telecommunications, wearables, and internet-of-things (IOT) devices
- Transistor logic and digital design process flow
- Trusted information systems, zero trust networking, encryption, and cryptographic systems
- Video and data compression technologies and algorithms
- Wireless communication connectivity protocols, including Wi-Fi, personal area network, and WiMax
