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STRATEGIC INTERDISCIPLINARY COUNSELING
We see solutions through a different lens. Our diverse group of experienced attorneys understands our clients’ business objectives. For decades, our attorneys have served a broad spectrum of clients spanning the globe in the technology and life sciences industries.
All Services All IndustriesIntellectual Property Litigation
Haug Partners’ Intellectual Property Litigation team is recognized globally for its experience representing innovator companies. Many of our attorneys have advanced scientific and technical degrees in areas such as electrical engineering, molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, and pharmacology. This combination of legal and scientific acumen provides critical insight when litigating complex and challenging intellectual property cases and is key to Haug Partners’ effective representation of our clients.
All Services All IndustriesPatent Prosecution
We collaborate with our clients to provide comprehensive legal strategies from the inception of an idea through commercialization and next-generation planning. Industry leaders trust and rely on Haug Partners to help them procure, manage, protect, and maximize the lifecycles of their most valuable intellectual property assets
All Services All IndustriesTrademarks & Unfair Competition
Haug Partners’ Trademarks & Unfair Competition team focuses on all aspects of global brand management, including trademark strategy, procurement, and enforcement. Our attorneys have a wide breadth of experience in trademark, trade dress, copyright, unfair competition, online and social media infringement, and other areas of law relevant to the protection of our clients’ intellectual property.
All Services All IndustriesLife Sciences
As a technology-focused firm, Haug Partners has represented many of today’s pioneering pharmaceutical and biotech companies, including Takeda, Baxalta, Nektar, Supernus, Ipsen, and Celgene. We know that the intellectual property of a life science business is its lifeblood, driving its growth and its future. As scientists and engineers ourselves, we know full well what it takes to innovate and just how important it is to protect those innovations. Many of us have significant industry experience or advanced academic degrees or both in moleular + cellular biology, chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology.
All Services All IndustriesAutomotive
Our attorneys have experience not only in automotive technologies, but in many other high-tech areas relevant to modern automotive concepts. We understand that a single vehicle can potentially touch on thousands of patents and license agreements. Haug Partners’ automotive team has a global perspective, a wealth of industry experience, and foreign language skills, so that we can comprehensively consider every aspect of our clients’ businesses.
All Services All IndustriesBiotechnology
Haug Partners’ Biotech Litigation Team is experienced in representing biopharmaceutical companies before federal district courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has even made several appearances before the United States Supreme Court.
All Services All IndustriesAppellate Litigation
At Haug Partners, our attorneys have extensive appellate experience and routinely appear before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. During its twenty-three year history, Haug Partners has handled more than one hundred Federal Circuit appeals, as well as numerous other appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States and federal Circuit Courts of Appeals.
All Services All IndustriesDue Diligence & Investigations
At Haug Partners, we understand the value of a strong intellectual property and regulatory strategy, and we aim to help our clients realize the maximum value of their intellectual property, achieve the longest possible exclusivity in the relevant markets, and avoid costly litigation by skillfully conducting due diligence.
All Services All IndustriesAntitrust Litigation
Haug Partners’ expertise in antitrust litigation runs deep. Our attorneys have successfully litigated countless antitrust matters, including government actions and private class actions concerning horizontal and vertical price fixing, reverse payment patent settlements, market allocation, boycotts, resale price maintenance, price discrimination, tying, and monopolization.
All Services All IndustriesCommercial Litigation
Haug Partner’s Commercial Litigation team is known for its exceptional advocacy skills and extensive practical business experience. Our attorneys’ litigation strategies are informed by substantive legal knowledge and robust trial and dispute resolution experience, and have garnered the firm a record of successful resolution of commercial disputes across multiple industries.
All Services All IndustriesFinancial Technology
Financial technology is about much more than computers handling money—it exists at the cutting edges of business, technology, security, performance and opportunity. The result is an environment of constant innovation with billions at stake, and the need to safeguard this innovation.
All Services All IndustriesMobile Technologies & Telecommunications
Haug Partners helps emerging companies protect and defend their technology, develop exit strategies, and navigate through the complex legal and compliance issues brought forth by disruptive technologies. We help established companies protect and defend their technology, develop new business models, and partner with or acquire emerging companies.
All Services All IndustriesSTRATEGIC INTERDISCIPLINARY COUNSELING
We see solutions through a different lens. Our diverse group of experienced attorneys understands our clients’ business objectives. For decades, our attorneys have served a broad spectrum of clients spanning the globe in the technology and life sciences industries.
All Services All IndustriesSelected Clients & Testimonials
The Haug Partners lawyers are the most talented litigators I have ever worked with. Their in depth knowledge of intellectual property law and science is unrivaled in the legal profession.
Jim Harrington
Shire
Haug Partners have an extraordinary ability to combine their deep understanding of science and technology with their legal expertise resulting in a positive outcome. The firm looks at legal matters in the context of the overall business, and has a strong record in successfully litigating Hatch-Waxman cases.
Jack Khattar
Supernus
Through working with Haug Partners over the years, we have come to rely on their knowledgeable counsel, expertise and dedicated service for our most sensitive and high profile IP matters. Our trust in the Firm has led us to expand our relationship to a seamlessly integrated partnership in which they assist us in managing our IP estate. The firm is a respected and valuable part of the team.
Peter Cicala
Celgene
Perspective is a significant differentiator. The firm looks at legal matters in terms of overall business objectives rather than mere legal tactics.
Clive Meanwell
The Medicines Company
In brief my experience with Haug Partners as a client from outside the US: professionality, speed and the ability to explain in an understandable, yet not simplified way – and all of that on the highest, possible level.
Arne Loebel
Classen Group
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- Federal Circuit Affirms Reference Documents Relied on in Samsung’s Petition Are Publicly Accessible
- Haug Partners and Ben Natter Have Been Recognized by World Trademark Review 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals
Offices
Conveniently located in Midtown Manhattan, Haug Partners’ New York headquarters occupies three floors of the historic Plaza District building on Fifth Avenue.
Our New York office is home to our state-of-the-art litigation suite, which features a fully functioning mock courtroom, war rooms, conference space, witness-preparation rooms, and document/duplication services.
Haug Partners’ Washington, DC office offers quick access to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; the U.S. International Trade Commission; the Department of Justice; the Federal Trade Commission; the Food and Drug Administration; and federal district courts in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
With spectacular views of Boston Harbor, Haug Partners’ Boston office is located at One Post Office Square, and is within walking distance to South Station, the Seaport, Boston’s courthouses, and the Red Line to Cambridge. Haug Partners’ Boston team is focused on providing the full-range of our services to Boston’s biopharma and technology companies.