IP Portfolio Management and Counseling

From entrepreneurs and start-up companies to Fortune 50™ corporations, Munck Carter is focused on serving technology companies and other businesses driven by innovation. We have experience in a broad range of practice areas. In each of them, our goal is the same — to help our clients grow and succeed, seizing new opportunities and avoiding potential pitfalls along the way.

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IP Portfolio Management and Counseling

Trademarks, patents, copyrights and trade secrets are important assets and often possess significant value. At Munck Carter, we counsel clients around the world in intellectual property (IP) matters, including the registration of trademarks and copyrights, the prosecution of patent applications, and the protection of trade secrets. But our work goes far beyond the mere procurement of IP protection in the United States and abroad. We develop comprehensive programs and strategies to help our clients secure, manage and enhance their IP portfolios.

Our portfolio management services are developed in close consultation with our clients in order to meet their objectives. We assess and monitor the status of the assets in a portfolio, as well as develop strategies to address how our clients’ IP rights are -- or should be -- acquired, exploited, enforced and maintained. We help identify areas of potential vulnerability and additional revenue opportunities. Taking advantage of our wealth of experience and technical background, our IP clients can improve business performance, effect organizational and strategic change and gain competitive advantages through proactive portfolio management.

Our services do not stop at the U.S. border. We manage large portfolios for clients with the need to protect their IP rights around the world. Over the years, we have developed an extensive global network of foreign associates that enables us to service the trademark, copyright and patent needs of clients outside the United States. We also offer the common sense guidance our clients demand to obtain and maintain IP protection where they need it, but avoid unnecessary filings and reduce IP costs in parts of the world where they don’t.

One of the tools we bring to bear for our IP clients is the diverse and distinguished technical background and business experience of our attorneys. Each of our registered patent attorneys has both legal and technical degrees in varying fields, including electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics and molecular biology. A substantial majority of our attorneys gained hands on experience in the business sector before entering the private practice of law. Because we understand your technology and your business, we are better equipped to work with your management and inventors to shape your IP strategies, develop and enhance your portfolio in ways that support your business goals, and ultimately protect and increase the value of your IP rights.

Ryan Loveless is a Senior Associate at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property section. His practice focuses on patent litigation and prosecution; infringement and patentability studies; intellectual property licensing and counseling; and business transactions involving intellectual property.

Mr. Loveless has experience in all aspects of patent infringement litigation, including pre-suit investigations, infringement and invalidity contentions, electronic discovery, Markman proceedings, summary judgment proceedings, expert reports, and jury trials.

Do Kim is an Associate at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm's IP section concentrating his practice in the areas of Patent Preparation and Prosecution.

Mr. Kim has experience in a variety of technical areas including microcontrollers, computer hardware and software, biomedical electronics, aircraft design, and imaging technology.

Prior to his legal career, Mr. Kim was employed as a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2000 to 2003 and as a data architect for IBM Business Consulting Services from 2003 to 2005.

Jay Johnson is a Partner at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property section.  His practice encompasses all areas of intellectual property law including patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and other technology related legal rights.

Tara Doyle is an Of Counsel attorney at Munck Carter, practicing in the Intellectual Property section and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Robert D. McCutcheon is a Partner at Munck Carter, where he practices primarily in the Intellectual Property section.  He has 17 years experience in domestic and foreign intellectual property procurement, exploitation, enforcement and counseling in patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.  His vast technical expertise includes semiconductors, telecommunications, hand-held devices, hardware, software, medical devices, fiber optics, as well as the electro-mechanical and mechanical arts.

John T. Mockler is a Partner at Munck Carter, practicing in the Intellectual Property section as a patent attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Mockler concentrates his practice on counseling domestic and international companies of all sizes in the identification and protection of their intellectual property assets, including the development and enforcement of an intellectual property licensing program. He has experience in the areas of intellectual property infringement analysis and litigation.

Michael Rodriguez is an Associate at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property section concentrating his practice in all areas of intellectual property with an emphasis on patent and trademark preparation and prosecution. 

N. Elizabeth Pham is an Associate at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property section concentrating her practice in the areas of patent preparation and prosecution.

Ms. Pham has experience in a variety of technical areas including telecommunications design standards, computer software and hardware, and semiconductor devices.

Prior to entering law school, Ms. Pham worked for three years at the Center for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center and was involved in numerous studies on cholesterol-lowering drugs and diabetes.

David Weigand is an Associate at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property section.  Mr. Weigand concentrates his practice in the area of patent preparation and prosecution, as well as counseling clients in identifying and protecting intellectual property.  He has represented numerous clients to obtain patent protection for inventions in a variety of technologies, including telecommunications, semiconductor devices and device fabrication, and computer hardware and software. 

David Roe is an Associate at Munck Carter, and is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property section concentrating his practice in the areas of patent application preparation and prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and Intellectual Property litigation.

Mr. Roe has extensive experience in a variety of technical areas including polymer chemistry, medical imaging devices, computer hardware and software, electrical and semiconductor devices.

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