IP Litigation, Arbitration & Mediation

The IP litigation, arbitration and mediation team at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd is highly experienced in the field, and dedicated to their clients' success.

IP LITIGATION, ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION EXPERIENCE:

• Creation of strategy to protect patent rights against multiple infringers, and prosecution of first action
• Defense of original equipment manufacturer against successive claims of copyright and trademark infringement by one of the world's largest software developers
• Prosecution of defective software action in arbitration on behalf of a multi-national client who had purchased an enterprise-critical software system for handling client's product development know-how
• Settlement of client’s claim that its customer was violating the license terms for client’s proprietary inventory-control and order-processing supply chain software
• Defense of scholarly non-profit against copyright infringement claim by major university regarding unpublished first novel manuscript of important author, in significant Fourth Circuit fair use case
• Representation of architects and construction firms, as both plaintiffs and defendants, in a series of Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act cases
• Representation of parties in patent infringement litigation from simple to complex technologies
• Settlement of client’s claim that its customer was violating the license terms for client’s proprietary inventory-control and order-processing supply chain software