Solution Providers

CSC - Corporation Service Company

Website: www.cscglobal.com

Corporation Service Company provides matter management, corporate compliance and trustee services for companies and law firms worldwide; corporate identity protection services for top global brands; and due diligence and transactional services for the world’s largest financial institutions.

Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies turn to CSC to create efficiencies, reduce risk exposure and reduce legal spend through our technology and service. Our Enterprise Risk Management solutions include entity management, matter and litigation management, e-billing and XML data feeds. Our Corporate Identity Protection services include domain name management, brand protection and trademark services.

Data Cert

Website: www.datacert.com

DataCert is the premier global provider of legal operations management solutions, including legal spend, IP, and matter management software and services. Our solutions include robust electronic invoicing workflow, industry-leading business intelligence, advanced collaboration, and an unmatched automated audit & compliance engine to enable corporate legal departments to strategically manage their case load and relationships with outside counsel. DataCert has the globalization expertise and tools needed to enable legal departments to achieve compliance with the tax and privacy requirements of diverse global jurisdictions. We provide our clients’ legal vendors with extensive support during and after the onboarding process, ensuring they are not burdened with the task of supporting their vast vendor networks. Throughout the life of the project, DataCert provides strategic guidance, utilizing dozens of best practice templates, developed from experience with over 140 implementations in some of the most demanding and complex legal departments in the world, helping ensure the project’s success.

Epiq Systems

Website: www.epiqsystems.com

Epiq Systems is a leading provider of integrated technology products and services for the legal profession. Our software applications and Web-based platforms offer case management and document management solutions for electronic discovery, legal notification, claims administration, and controlled disbursement.

Epiq is the partner of choice for eDiscovery solutions. We help corporations and their counsel overcome today’s eDiscovery challenges and prepare them for future requirements.

Clients are fully supported by a team of experienced Epiq professionals and our flexible technology. That’s why we have over a 90% rate of repeat eDiscovery business.
Phone: 800 314 5550

Hammonds LLP

Website: www.hammonds.com

Hammonds LLP is a UK law firm with longstanding tradition. With around 700 lawyers, Hammonds is today one of the largest commercial law firms in Europe with offices throughout the UK, Europe, Russia and Asia advising national and international clients on both local and international law.

Hammonds’ German offices in Berlin and Munich advice since 1 April 2001 with around 45 lawyers domestic and international private and public listed companies, financial institutions as well as the public sector and public enterprises. Main areas of legal advice in Germany are: Corporate/ M&A, Private Equity/VC, Banking & Finance, Tax, Privatizations and Restructurings, Insolvency law, Employment and Pensions, Antitrust and Merger Control/State Aid, Property & Planning, Public Procurement, Construction, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Energy, IT, IP and Patents Litigation. Our Munich office specializes in Commercial and Intellectual property issues. Our team provides a one stop shop service in the field of intellectual property, reaching from the prosecution of all intellectual property rights to the enforcement, litigation, and formation of contracts. Across all areas of commercial law Hammonds’ advisers are outstandingly qualified in their respective fields. This includes not only specialist legal expertise but also requires our lawyers to be fully versant with the business of our clients.

Innography®

Website: www.innography.com

Innography® delivers a Web-based, intellectual property business intelligence application that enables companies to better manage, protect and exploit their patent portfolios. By uniquely correlating patent data with financial, litigation and other key business information, Innography instantly generates visual insights so users can rapidly access and apply meaningful results when engaged in patent licensing, market analysis, competitive intelligence, invalidation, due diligence, freedom to operate and other IP-related activities. To learn more or to request a product discovery session, visit www.innography.com or call 1.512.306.8688.

www.innography.com

IPENDO

Website: www.ipendo.com

IPENDO is the number one provider of on-demand IP solutions to companies of all sizes. IPENDO solutions bring out hidden values in your company’s IP by allowing the IP department to automate administrative tasks and extract and share crucial information with relevant parties. Being a fully web-based platform, IPENDO utilizes the power of Internet connectivity. No other IP management solution on the market can compare to the collaboration power of the IPENDO platform. Thousands of users within IP departments, R&D, Legal and Management along with attorneys around the globe communicate IP through the IPENDO platform on a daily basis. As a result of this, automating administrative tasks, placing orders and purchasing of services are by far the most streamlined and cost efficient processes you can find within the IP field, all gathered in the IPENDO platform. The IPENDO Platform is built on a modular design allowing you to pick the relevant modules for your company. Main benefits are:

• Case Management of all IP rights
• Automated workflows involving different parties
• Real-time communication with your partners and suppliers
• Create advanced forecasting and budgeting reports with a few clicks
• Order time-consuming IP services with simple step-by-step wizards

iRunway

Website: www.i-Runway.com

iRunway is an ISO 27001 certified provider of technology analysis and research services to corporations, law firms and leading technology investment firms worldwide. iRunway’s deep technology expertise delivered through its proven ‘onsite-offshore’ model has contributed to significant courtroom victories and favorable settlements for their clients, including -

• Fourth-largest patent jury verdict in the U.S. in 2009
• A strategic cross-licensing deal with a Fortune 200 technology company
• Favorable settlement with a medical systems company in a copyright case

iRunway’s service offering are designed around their expertise in domains such as networking, software, telecom, semiconductor, web technologies and biomedical devices. Services include-

• Technology analysis services for litigation including product analysis, claim charts, source code review, document review, invalidity searches, amending PICs and more
• Freedom-to-operate analysis, landscape analysis, infringement identification, prior art searches, patentability search and more
• Patent portfolio analysis
• Technology evaluation services for M&A due diligence

With offices in Austin (Texas) and Bangalore (India), iRunway also leverages a world-class team of technology experts to help counsel improve capacity and optimize costs.

Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

Website: www.KunzlerIP.com

Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe is a full service intellectual property law firm that specializes in patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Our practice is primarily focused on electrical, electronic, software, mechanical, medical, and chemical patents. We represent numerous corporate clients including IBM, Lenovo, Hitachi, Fusion io, and Cummins as well as other high tech companies. Our litigation department consistently achieves outstanding results for our clients, including a recent win at the Federal Circuit.

Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe was founded in 2000 and has grown rapidly ever since. Our growth is the direct result of our dedication to providing our clients with exceptional intellectual property representation at a great value.

ICAP Patent Brokerage

Website: www.icap.com

ICAP Patent Brokerage leverages the talents of experienced patent monetization professionals to match buyers and sellers for the sale of patents and other intellectual property assets. The Patent Brokerage team has more than 45 years of experience in monetizing and leveraging intellectual property assets, drawing upon extensive knowledge of the marketplace across many sectors throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. ICAP Patent Brokerage brings credibility, stability and liquidity to the marketplace and we are the intellectual property brokerage of choice for IP assets in both the primary and secondary markets.

ICAP Patent Brokerage achieves results for our clients through strategic thinking, focused, comprehensive research and analysis, and providing buyers and sellers with unparalleled access to the financial, legal and business resources needed in the monetization process.

ICAP Patent Brokerage partners with clients, taking a fee only upon successful sale of the patent portfolio, and we fund the portfolio sale process costs. This allows us to focus our resources and expertise on providing our clients with the best and most timely result possible.

King & Spalding

Website: www.kslaw.com

King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in 14 offices across the U.S, Europe and the Middle East. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and, according to a Corporate Counsel survey in August 2009, ranks fifth in its total number of representations of those companies.

King & Spalding's Intellectual Property Practice consists of more than 110 lawyers and patent agents in offices across the United States. The group houses a full-service intellectual property practice, focusing on patent litigation and prosecution, as well as trademark, false advertising, and other IP disciplines. The firm has a particular emphasis on high-tech and biotechnology-pharmaceutical patent litigation, representing several of the country's leading technology companies. Nearly one in four of our IP professionals hold Ph.D.’s and other advanced scientific degrees.

In Corporate Counsel’s “Who Represents America’s Biggest Companies?” survey of the Fortune 250, King & Spalding ranks among the top firms for intellectual property. In IP Law & Business magazine’s annual survey of the country’s 50 most innovative companies, King & Spalding was recognized as one of the law firms most frequently mentioned as legal counsel on intellectual property matters.

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan

Founded in 1985, Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan is a full service firm practicing in intellectual property, tax, international trade and corporate laws. The firm provides complete drafting, filing and litigation services in patents, trademark, copyright and plant variety protection. The IP division has a strong team of scientists and technologists specializing in the areas of Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Mechanical, Electrical and Software Engineering. The firm handles patent filings, prosecutions and several high profile litigations including the Novartis case. Its clients include Microsoft, Monsanto, Merck, ITW, P&G, Rohm & Hass, Citibank, Tata, TVS, Bharti Cellular and Reliance

LexisNexis

Wesbite: www.lexisnexis.com/ip

LexisNexis offers the intellectual property professional a suite of solutions that includes TotalPatent™, PatentOptimizer™, Global IP Law Service, IP DataDirect – Patents, REEDFAX®, and intellectual property sources at lexis.com®. LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of business information solutions to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide.

MarkMonitor

Website: www.markmonitor.com

MarkMonitor, the global leader in enterprise brand protection, offers comprehensive solutions and services that safeguard brands, reputation and revenue from online risks. With end-to-end solutions that address the growing threats of online fraud, brand abuse and unauthorized channels, MarkMonitor enables a secure Internet for businesses and their customers. The company’s exclusive access to data combined with its patented real-time prevention, detection and response capabilities provide wide-ranging protection to the ever-changing online risks faced by brands today.

McElroy Translation

Website: www.mcelroytranslation.com

McElroy Translation provides legal, technical, medical and business translation and software/website localization. A profitable Austin-based company for more than 40 years, McElroy has deep experience in intellectual property, patent translation, litigation support and foreign filing. The company’s 27 consecutive years of service with the United States Patent and Trademark Office reflects McElroy’s quality standards and expertise in intellectual property.

Always an innovator, McElroy is a leader in human-optimized machine translation (HOMT), a 3.0 technology that produces higher quality translations at a fraction of the cost and time. With its continuous human feedback loop, HOMT steps beyond traditional SMT by using human experts to hone searches yet preserve quality. As a result, litigators can more quickly cull through information and more often find the most relevant pieces that are then translated by a human translator with subject matter expertise.

McElroy Translation has 500+ technical linguists with patent translation experience and works for corporate legal departments, law firms, and governmental entities. McElroy works with designated or recommended foreign associates to provide accurate, properly formatted translations in accordance to guidelines of foreign patent offices—placing the control over translation cost and translated text in the hands of the corporate legal team.

Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services

Website: www.melbourneitdbs.com

Melbourne IT is one of the world’s leading providers of corporate domain name management and brand protection services. We are an active participant in the development of global domain name policy, working to advocate on behalf corporate domain owners. Melbourne IT was one of the first five com/net/org registrars, and was a joint venture partner in establishing one of the first new gTLDs (.biz) in 2000. Our experience and industry insight can benefit corporations in planning their strategy for IP management in the upcoming expansion of gTLDs.

Specifically for companies seeking assistance with new gTLDs Melbourne IT DBS offers consulting service which includes assisting with analysis for business case development, application preparation for a top level domain, monitoring of activities in other new gTLDs, and full ongoing operation of a new gTLD. In addition to these services Melbourne IT DBS provides corporate domain name management and brand protection services

Miller Thompson

Website: www.millerthomson.com

One of Canada’s largest business law firms, Miller Thomson has close to 450 professionals based in nine offices across Canada, including Toronto, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia. We offer a complete range of business law, advocacy and personal legal services to corporations, financial institutions (including banks, dealers and insurance companies), governments and government agencies, municipalities, hospitals, entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations.

Along with a number of lawyers recognized as leading Canadian practitioners, Miller Thomson is also proud to have been named a Go-To Law Firm by American Lawyer Media in its 2008 In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies.

Pangea3

Website: www.pangea3.com

Pangea3 is the industry leading legal process outsourcing company, providing global legal solutions to Fortune 1000 corporations, in-house counsel and their law firms. Utilizing dedicated client teams of U.S., U.K. and Indian attorneys, scientists and professionals, Pangea3 offers superior quality corporate, risk management, litigation and intellectual property services. Founded in 2004, Pangea3 has since grown at a record-setting pace and received numerous accolades and third party rankings as the leading legal outsourcing services provider. Pangea3's advantage lies in its people, technology, and process expertise including Six Sigma and Lean tools and methodologies -- to deliver U.S. quality services at a compelling cost.

Patent Solutions Group

Website: www.patentsolutionsgroup.com

Patent Solutions Group, Inc. is a Puerto Rico corporation that specializes in providing high-end patent prosecution, patent searching, patent clearance, and patent litigation support services to global corporations and law firms at a reduced price lowering the costs of obtaining and enforcing patents without sacrificing quality, confidentiality or security.

PSG is uniquely positioned to tap the U.S. market due to Puerto Rico’s political compatibility with the U.S., advanced telecom infrastructure, moderate labor costs, yet highly talented pool of English proficient engineers. Puerto Rico boasts 2 of the 20 largest engineering programs in the U.S. When added together they form the 6th largest engineering pool in the US concentrated in a very limited geographical extension. Puerto Rico is a leading country in presence of pharmaceutical and aerospace industry. Finally, there are efficiency gains from working close to the U.S. and in the same time zone.

The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company has included PSG’s patent support solutions as part of the value-added services to be offered through PRIDCO’s emerging Aerospace Cluster and as a local offering to potential companies wishing to establish their research and development centers to develop intellectual property in Puerto Rico.

Yulchon

Website: www.yulchon.com

Yulchon’s IP practice profoundly reflects Yulchon’s key values of commitment and excellence as a top-quality general service law firm. Yulchon’s IP practice covers a wide range of areas, such as patent, copyright, trademark, prevention of unfair competition and any other IP issue that involves another field of the law, such as antitrust or tax. As a result of unrivaled success in many crucial contentious cases involving foreign parties, Yulchon’s IP team is widely recognized as “the last harbor” of intellectual property disputes, on which firms with critical cases that will determine the fate of their business success depend. Yulchon also has a comprehensive advisory practice, providing high quality advisory services to prevent disputes or ensure better leverage by formulating the best strategy for foreign firms. Notable issues on which Yulchon successfully advised include on-line piracy and industrial design protection.

Furthermore, Yulchon has formed a strategic alliance with the domestic patent law firm Y. P. Lee, Mock & Partners, the largest patent law firm in Korea with 110 patent attorneys. The alliance, which creates the largest IP law group in the country, aims to expand and strengthen Yulchon’s IP practice, enhancing the firm’s ability to serve its clients.