What We Do
Valauskas Corder LLC provides comprehensive intellectual property counsel to businesses, universities, and individuals — from prosecution and registration through licensing, portfolio management, and litigation.
Patents
We prepare and prosecute U.S. and international patent applications across mechanical, electrical, software, and design technologies. Our attorneys counsel clients on patentability, freedom-to-operate, and claim strategy to build portfolios that deliver real competitive advantage.
Trademarks
From clearance searches and registration through enforcement and inter partes proceedings, we protect the brand identities our clients have built. We handle U.S. and international trademark matters and manage domain name disputes through ICANN's UDRP and URS procedures.
Copyrights
We register copyrights, perform forensic analysis of creative works, and advise on ownership, fair use, and licensing. We also initiate takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and counsel clients on open-source and content distribution issues.
Licensing
Our attorneys draft and negotiate a full range of IP agreements — licenses, hybrid licenses, cross-licenses, and technology transfer agreements — balancing risk and value for both licensors and licensees across industries.
Portfolio Management
We manage IP portfolios of all sizes, conducting offensive and defensive analysis on strategic licensing opportunities, coordinating prosecution across jurisdictions, and advising on portfolio pruning and monetization strategies.
Opinions
We prepare written opinions on infringement, validity, and inventorship to help clients make informed business decisions, manage litigation risk, and demonstrate good-faith reliance when it matters most.
Trade Secrets
We advise on the identification, protection, and enforcement of trade secrets — including confidentiality agreements, employee departure protocols, and misappropriation claims — helping clients safeguard their most sensitive proprietary information.
Rights of Publicity
We counsel clients on the right of publicity and related privacy rights in today's digital environments, including the use of names, likenesses, and personas in advertising, social media, and emerging technologies.
Technology Transfer
Drawing on deep experience with universities and research foundations, we guide technology transfer professionals through IP identification, licensing strategy, sponsored research agreements, and commercialization of university-originated innovations.
Unfair Competition
We represent clients in matters involving false advertising, trade dress infringement, passing off, and other unfair business practices — protecting market position and brand integrity through both counseling and litigation.
Hatch-Waxman
We advise pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients on Hatch-Waxman patent listing, certification, and litigation strategy — navigating the intersection of patent law and FDA regulatory requirements for both brand and generic drug manufacturers.
Litigation
Our attorneys participate in all phases of IP litigation — pre-suit investigation, infringement and validity analysis, pleadings, discovery, depositions, Markman hearings, and motions — in federal district courts and before the USPTO.
Ready to Protect Your IP?
Contact Valauskas Corder LLC to discuss how we can help you build, protect, and commercialize your intellectual property.