K. P. Correll & Associates, LLC fee structure is mainly flat-fees so you know in advance what you will be paying for a service. We provide various intellectual property legal services such as patent searches, patent applications, trademark searches, trademark applications, licenses, infringement litigation, legal opinions and intellectual property due diligence. Our law practice is in most areas of technology including mechanical, electrical, process, software and e-commerce type of inventions.
In addition, we also specialize in international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent applications.
Establishing your IP...
We help our corporate clients to establish their intellectual property methodologies, e.g., establishing invention examination boards, to help determine which technologies or R and D investments the company should protect through patent application filing.
If left unprotected, a good invention, or service, may be lost to larger competitors that are in a better position to commercialize the product or service at a more affordable price, leaving the original inventor or creator without any financial benefit or reward. Adequate protection of a inventor's intellectual property is a crucial step in deterring potential infringement and in turning ideas into business assets with a real market value. Taking full advantage of the IP system enables companies to profit from their inventor's innovative capacity and creativity.
For the individual inventors we provide low cost invention protection alternatives before the inventor commits to higher cost patent applications.
In Underwater Devices, Inc. v. Morrison-Knudsen Co., the Federal Circuit stated:
"Where...a potential infringer has actual notice of another's patent rights, he has an affirmative duty to exercise due care to determine whether or not he is infringing."
We provide infringement analysis opinions and/or intellectual property licensing options for your patents or IP portfolio.