Patents are perhaps the most tangible and enforceable types of intellectual property. Baker Botts' patent lawyers have extensive training and experience drafting and developing patents. A well-written patent is essential to any business with an idea: it can be a starting point for licensing negotiations, a barrier to entry for competitors or a ticket into court. Baker Botts' patent lawyers have extensive training and experience in drafting and developing patents. We prosecute patents for companies of all sizes as well as individual inventors, academicians and universities. Unlike some general practice firms with a small intellectual property presence, Baker Botts is proud of its full-service IP practice. Through skillful management of costs and the use of talented lawyers, we help our clients secure superior patents. 

During the patent process, our lawyers develop close working relationships with the innovators at your company. Through this collaboration, we explore the potential applications of the new technology or idea. The process also reveals the technological and financial ramifications of the patents, not only to your company but also to the industry as a whole. We emphasize claim construction with the goal of providing the broadest protection possible under federal law.

The diverse technical backgrounds of our intellectual property lawyers are extremely beneficial during patent prosecution. We find that our lawyers communicate well with scientists, programmers and engineers simply because most of our intellectual property lawyers have similar backgrounds. Whether you are patenting mechanical devices, medical products, computer software, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals or ideas in numerous other fields, we are likely to have a lawyer who has written such a patent.

Baker Botts will be with you every step of the way in the development and commercialization of technological innovations like nanotechnology and bioinformatics. We make sure that individual inventors, universities and companies are able to protect and profit from their significant investment in time and money.