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With one of the largest intellectual property practices in the Southeast, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings offers a full range of IP services, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and licensing, as well as assistance with other technology transactions. More than 30 attorneys devote substantially all of their practice to the group; they possess a broad base of legal experience, as well as the advanced technical and educational backgrounds needed for the industries they serve. As a result, these lawyers understand the crucial role that a company’s IP assets play in its success, and are able to provide seasoned, cost-effective counsel based on deep industry knowledge.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings handles all aspects of patent and trademark prosecution, copyright protection, and IP portfolio management. Our litigators defend and enforce clients’ intellectual property rights before federal, state, appellate, and administrative courts, as well as international forums and tribunals. We also help clients to leverage the full value of their IP portfolios with comprehensive counsel concerning intellectual property development, licensing, and commercialization.

The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings IP Group works with a diverse client base, ranging from start-ups and technology incubators to midsized companies and large multinational corporations. Nearly100 of our clients are companies listed on Fortune 500. Our clients do business in industries that include accounting, automotive, banking and finance, biotechnology, construction, education, emerging business, energy, equipment leasing, forest products, health care, insurance, information technology, manufacturing and design, materials and aggregate production, media and communications, mining, municipal and public finance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, life sciences, public utilities, real estate, retail, steel, telecommunications, textiles, transportation, and venture capital. Our firm has been at the forefront of e-commerce and Internet law, serving as counsel to leading companies in this emerging sector.

Our IP lawyers and staff possess the prior work experience, technical educations, and legal knowledge to advise clients efficiently and cost-effectively about all of their domestic and foreign IP matters. The firm’s patent prosecution attorneys have extensive industry backgrounds and advanced degrees in key technical disciplines, including electrical and mechanical engineering, software and computing, and biochemistry. They have held positions with companies such as General Electric and IBM, and understand the bottom-line business importance of securing intellectual property protections for key technologies. The Bradley Arant Boult Cummings IP Group also helps clients protect critical market share and positioning through trademarks and copyright, and provides counsel on issues such as trade secret protection and unfair competition.

Today’s challenging marketplace demands that companies leverage the most value possible from all of their assets – especially their IP portfolios. Our attorneys help clients protect these assets and realize their full value through licensing arrangements, assignments, securitization, outright sales, and other transactions.

Clients count on Bradley Arant Boult Cummings to help protect and defend their valuable IP rights with an experienced team of litigators. We have tried many of the leading cases in the Southeast and have a strong national IP litigation practice. Our lawyers realize IP litigation hits at the core of a client’s business, and success is often key to a company’s survival. With that in mind, our litigators work tirelessly to secure the best possible results for our clients. In fact, we were named a “Go-To Law Firm for Leading Technology Companies” in the 2008 American Lawyer Media survey of in-house counsel. We were also named a “Highly Recommended Firm,” the top ranking given, among leading litigation firms for Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi in the Benchmark Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms in 2009.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
1 Federal Place
1819 5th Ave N
Birmingham AL 35203
Tel: 205 521-8000
Fax: 205 521-8800

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is a regional law firm with a global perspective. The firm has more than 370 attorneys serving individuals, emerging businesses, and established regional, national and international companies. Clients rely on us for innovative legal services that reflect a deep understanding of their business realities.

We are one of the largest firms in the Southeast, with offices strategically located in Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and the District of Columbia. These offices provide an extensive geographic base from which to serve clients on a regional basis, as well as clients located elsewhere in the country and the world. We frequently serve as national coordinating counsel, regional counsel, and statewide counsel for clients in various industries. Our lawyers work for major construction companies in Europe and Asia, for multinational pharmaceutical companies in New York and California, for major insurance and financial clients in Texas, Indiana, and Alabama and for national tire manufacturers in Tennessee and Georgia.

Our clients work in a broad range of industries, including accounting, automotive, banking and finance, biotechnology, construction, economic development, education, emerging business, energy, equipment leasing, forest products, health care, insurance, manufacturing, materials and aggregate production, media and communications, mining, municipal, project and public finance, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, private equity, public utilities, real estate, retail, steel, technology, telecommunications, textiles, transportation, and venture capital. Each of these sectors presents unique challenges and opportunities, which demand specific legal and business experience. We meet those challenges with client and industry teams combining the talents of seasoned legal professionals from a variety of disciplines. These teams provide strategic solutions tailored specifically to our clients' industries and operations.

As a firm, we believe we have particular strengths and core competencies in the areas of construction, economic development, emerging and family owned businesses, financial institutions and services, health care, intellectual property, litigation, private equity, and real estate.