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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 practice is recognized globally for its experience and excellence representing innovator companies. When called for, our team of 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 and Unfair Competition practice 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 intellectual property matters. We rely upon this experience to achieve exceptional results for our clients while actively managing global trademark and intellectual property portfolios and enforcing our clients’ intellectual property rights in proceedings around the world.
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 the 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. The automotive team at Haug Partners includes attorneys with a global perspective, industry experience, and foreign language skills (when needed).
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
Our attorneys have substantial appellate experience, and routinely appear before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. During its 23-year history, the firm has handled more than 100 Federal Circuit appeals, as well as numerous other Supreme Court and Circuit Court appeals.
All Services All IndustriesDue Diligence & Investigations
In today’s complex technological landscape, a skillfully conducted due diligence on the front end can help clients avoid millions or more in monetary losses on the back end. We understand the value of a strong intellectual property and regulatory strategy, and we aim to help our clients realize the maximal value of their intellectual property assets, achieve the longest possible exclusivity in the relevant markets, and avoid costly litigation. We take pride in immersing ourselves in the relevant technology to identify critical issues, and we have the resources and experience to timely deliver on the most urgent and time-sensitive due diligence projects.
All Services All IndustriesAntitrust Litigation
Haug Partner’s antitrust litigation expertise 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 group is known for their effective advocacy skills and business judgment. Our attorney’s litigation strategies are informed by substantive legal knowledge and robust trial and dispute resolution experience, and have garnered the firm with a remarkable commercial litigation record of successful resolution of commercial disputes for our clients across a number of industries.
All Services All IndustriesFinancial Technology
Financial technology is about much more than computers handling money. It is the intersection of business, technology, security, regulation, and opportunity. With billions potentially at risk, financial technology exists at the cutting edges of performance, reliability, and security. The result is an environment of constant innovation and the need to protect it.
All Services All IndustriesMobile Technologies & Telecommunications
Clients rely on Haug Partners’ experience in mobile technologies and telecommunications for patent prosecution, due diligence, licensing, opinion work, counseling, and litigation. Many of the firm’s attorneys hold advanced science degrees in fields such as electronics, semiconductor device physics and fabrication technology. For decades, the firm has been on the cutting edge of electronics technology, having prosecuted high-tech patents for clients such as Sony since the firm’s inception.
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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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.