The Patent Group at PCZL provides the strategic vision, creative support and professional follow-through needed to successfully protect and promote our clients' inventions.

With over 40 patent attorneys and patent agents authorized to practice in the USPTO and the Israeli Patent Office, and strong of-counsel relationships with intellectual property leaders around the globe, PCZL has a well-deserved reputation for providing clients with innovative, seamless international patent strategies. PCZL clients also benefit from the synergy among our related practice areas. The wider perspective that our broad practice provides further strengthens the patent strategies we offer.

Our expertise in this practice area is augmented by a significant support staff of scientific advisors. Most of our scientific advisors have advanced degrees from the world's top universities, as well as practical, first-hand knowledge and industry experience.

The PCZL Patent Group offers complete support for:

• Drafting, filing and prosecution of local and foreign patent applications
• Filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), including filing of National Phase applications
• Analysis of prior art, patents, and patent applications, for both offensive and defensive purposes
• Counseling and opinion practice, including preparation of legal opinions with regard to patentability, infringement, and enforceability of patents
• Patent portfolio management, analysis, augmentation, and improvement

Related strategic services that we provide include:

• Counseling inventors, investors and patentees
• Aiding manufacturers in the design of non-infringing, competitive products
• Licensing, patent sale and assignment, and ownership-related issues
• Portfolio management, analysis, augmentation, and improvement litigation
• Prosecuting patent applications
• Patent-related litigation, including patent enforcement cases to assert our clients' patent rights against infringers, and patent defense cases to defend our clients from alleged accusations of infringement.

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