Protecting intellectual property assets is often paramount to a company's success. Our intellectual property lawyers handle patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright registrations, licensing and litigation. Our lawyers concentrate in electronics, mechanical engineering and computer hardware and software, among other key areas. The firm's intellectual property lawyers regularly assist our healthcare lawyers with distribution and development agreements and formulate effective intellectual property protection strategies. We also prosecute and defend cases involving unfair use of intellectual property, and assist clients developing programs to monitor and detect improper use of intellectual property.
Many new companies use equity to retain and reward their employees.
Later, as companies grow, other employment law, human resources and employee benefits issues become important. In each of these areas, Morgan Lewis lawyers help emerging healthcare companies design regular, incentive and deferred compensation arrangements that enable a company to attract and retain key executives. Our employee benefits lawyers are experienced in designing qualified and non-qualified plans. The firm has one of the country's largest and most diverse tax departments. We represent a large number of major for-profit and nonprofit healthcare institutions on the tax consequences of organization, reorganization, financing and fundraising.