PROTECT. DEFEND. ENFORCE.®
Large Corporations
Large Corporations
Even our billion-dollar-revenue clients want a good return on their investment in legal services. With more patent attorneys than many large law firms, we can handle large intellectual property portfolios. No matter the size of your company, you still get personalized services, responsiveness, and legal counseling tailored to your company’s specific needs. Meanwhile, being an IP boutique with lower overhead and less firm bureaucracy allows us to provide flexible fee arrangements. And we can work with our network of associated IP firms to achieve international protection for your products and processes, and your goods and services.
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Large Corporations
We are an IP boutique firm in Charlotte with enough attorneys to handle any IP portfolio, but with the flexibility to tailor services and fees to corporate requirements.
Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
A pressing legal issue requires an attorney ready to put you and your company first. Our patent attorneys will provide the personalized service you need when you need it. Protect your inventions with patents. Protect your brands with trademark registrations. Protect your designs and written works with copyright. Ensure your trade secrets are protected. We provide a full range of intellectual property legal services — it’s like having your own in-house IP department when you need it. Like you, our small business works to keep overhead low so we can provide you with large-firm-quality services at small-firm rates.
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Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
We are a full-service IP firm able to handle all your intellectual property needs. It’s like having your own in-house IP legal department at a more reasonable cost.
General Practice Law Firms
General Practice Law Firms
We stay in our lane. You want us to handle your client’s intellectual property matters while you handle the rest. Consider us your firm’s IP department — we are here when you need us. When your valued client has an IP need, rest easy knowing we will help you provide the results your client demands. Client sued for patent infringement? We can handle it, or we can work alongside you as co-counsel. Need to update an employee manual? We can help you draft it to ensure that your client’s trade secrets are protected. Client wants to acquire a company? We can perform due diligence on the target’s patent and trademark portfolio. As your client prepares to launch an important new product, we can perform a trademark clearance opinion to minimize the risk of infringement. Let our complete range of IP capabilities help your firm be a full-service law firm.
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General Practice Law Firms
We can help expand your firm’s capability to provide the full spectrum of legal services to your most valued clients. We help you handle the IP; you maintain the client relationship.
Technology Entrepreneurs
Technology Entrepreneurs
All of our attorneys are registered before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We have the qualifications and experience to help you protect your investment in technology. Talk to us about your goals, and we will help you identify and prioritize the patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret projects that will afford you meaningful protection while working within your budget. Our patentability opinions can help you decide whether you want to invest in the patent process. Our patent infringement opinions can help you avoid or resolve conflicts. Our IP litigators can help you defend against claims of patent infringement, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and related claims. Or if someone uses your technology without permission, we can bring a claim in state or federal court to obtain an injunction.
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Technology Entrepreneurs
We provide a full range of IP services to protect your investments and inventions. We provide experienced counseling to help you prioritize projects to get the most protection from your IP budget.
Universities
Universities
We have experience working with technology transfer offices to achieve patent protection for faculty innovations. Our breadth of experience and diversity of technological backgrounds allow us to help your institution achieve the broadest possible patent protection, thereby maximizing your ability to monetize the technology. We can help negotiate and draft patent license agreements to govern the use of your patented technology in the marketplace. We will work closely with your technology transfer office and your inventors to maximize protection while providing flexible fee arrangements to meet your budgetary requirements.
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Universities
We are registered patent attorneys from diverse scientific backgrounds, including chemistry, physics, computer science, and various engineering disciplines. We collaborate with your inventors to achieve broad protection.
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WHY US?
Additon, Pendleton & Witherspoon, P.A. is dedicated exclusively to the practice of intellectual property (IP) law. We provide a full range of intellectual property services for U.S. and international clients, with a focus on patent and trademark prosecution, litigation, licensing, and counseling.
We are a boutique intellectual property law firm. Our practice is focused entirely on intellectual property. Every one of our attorneys is a registered patent attorney. While other law firms may have IP attorneys as part of their practice, intellectual property is our exclusive focus. We are able to dedicate all of our resources to protecting, enforcing, and defending your intellectual property beginning at conception.
MORE THAN JUST LAWYERS
When you hire us, you are getting more than just lawyers. You are getting scientists and engineers possessing education, work experience, and expertise in the following industries.
- Biotechnology
- Chemical
- Computer technology
- Fiber Optics
- Materials Science
- Medicinal chemistry
- Mechanical
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear
- Optoelectronics
- Petroleum
- Pulp and paper
- Semiconductors
- Software