Patent Preparation & Prosecution

Crafting a quality, comprehensive, valuable, and enforceable patent requires an appreciation for the power of language as well as skill in balancing clarity and precision with breadth and wide scope. These qualities can only come from decades of experience in drafting, revising, negotiating, and advocating for quality results—and Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma has it all. We have deep experience in capturing inventions and working with engineers and scientists on their own terms to obtain disclosures with minimum friction and maximum efficiency. We offer high-quality drafting of patent applications and industry-leading expertise in management of the specification, claim drafting, and negotiation with patent examiners. We have lawyers with best-in-class skills in oral advocacy to achieve success in inventor interviews, appeals, and pre-appeal argument. Whether the task is to prepare a provisional submission in a few days to beat a bar date or to craft a series of related applications to comprehensively cover all valuable features of a complete product family, we have the expertise, brilliance, and bandwidth to execute effectively, timely, and efficiently.

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Software

Virtually all of Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma's patent attorneys have education or experience in software development, software engineering, systems engineering, or testing. Selected fields of experience include complex medical systems, voicemail, defense systems, databases, AI/ML systems, and more. Several of our people hold Ph.D or Master’s degrees and have extensive industry experience in dev, programming, sysops, dbadmin, and related roles. We closely monitor developments in protection of AI/ML innovations worldwide. We speak Java, Objective-C, C++, LISP, and more. Our services include identifying inventions, developing disclosures, conducting disclosure meetings at any level of formality, studying disclosure materials at any level of formality, drafting, revising, filing, and negotiating with the USPTO or other agencies.

Electronics

Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma's services with regard to patents for electronics include identifying inventions, developing disclosures, conducting disclosure meetings at any level of formality, studying disclosure materials at any level of formality, drafting, revising, filing, and negotiating with the USPTO or other agencies. We have experience working with gate-level, chip-level, or board-level architectures.

Mechanical

Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma has experience in a variety of mechanical technologies including medical devices, surgical tools, consumer products, footwear, food and beverage equipment, and robotic actuators. Our services with regard to mechanical patents include identifying inventions, developing disclosures, conducting disclosure meetings at any level of formality, studying disclosure materials at any level of formality, drafting, revising, filing, and negotiating with the USPTO or other agencies.

Semiconductor Devices

Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma has filed and negotiated numerous patents for gate-level chip architectures, SoC architectures, fabrication techniques, fab robots, deposition methods, and allied technologies for the Valley’s leading fabbed and fabless foundries and design houses. Our services with regard to patents for semiconductor devices include identifying inventions, developing disclosures, conducting disclosure meetings at any level of formality, studying disclosure materials at any level of formality, drafting, revising, filing, and negotiating with the USPTO or other agencies.

Physics & Geotechnology

Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma's services with regard to physics and geotechnology patents include identifying inventions, developing disclosures, conducting disclosure meetings at any level of formality, studying disclosure materials at any level of formality, drafting, revising, filing, and negotiating with the USPTO or other agencies.