About Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP

Kleinberg & Lerner, LLP has particular expertise in providing legal support to enterprises, entrepreneurs, inventors and authors in technology and related media fields. Our practice is directed to acquiring, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights to maximize the benefits of the underlying technology, and to integrating the client's technical expertise into long range and strategic plans.

We work closely with our clients to identify and obtain the optimum combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret protection. Besides conventional patent, copyright and trademark activities, our particular areas of expertise include:

1) defense of advertising injury claims regarding trademark, copyright and patent infringement, and trade secret, unfair competition, defamation and false advertising claims for clients, for insurance carriers and their insured;

2) the preparation and negotiation of agreements regarding the licensing or transfer of intellectual property and contracts and agreements necessary to protect intellectual property;

3) assistance in business plan development, directed to the analysis and integration of intellectual property assets to establish and maintain a strategic marketplace position; and

4) counseling the organization of small business enterprises and the operation of established businesses having a strong technological base to maximize shareholder value.

The members of the firm have extensive expertise, as both in-house and outside counsel, representing enterprises and individuals in a broad range of technical disciplines, including electrical, chemical, mechanical, biological, biomedical, electronic media and computer arts, as well as representing personalities and companies involved in the entertainment, telecommunications and multimedia industries.