Pennington Oliak PLLC is a firm dedicated to protecting, enforcing and defending the intellectual property rights of clients. Our attorneys have achieved remarkable success for a wide variety of clients, from governmental agencies, including the Department of Energy and NASA, to Fortune 50 companies, as well as independent inventors working hard to make a startup become a success. The firm’s attorneys have trial experience in every major patent venue in the United States, including the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the District Courts of Delaware, Virginia, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, New York and California, among others. Firm attorneys have also litigated the full range of intellectual property cases besides patents, including copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, tortious interference, and contracts involving sale of IP assets and licensing.
The firm includes attorneys and agents licensed to practice at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and are actively engaged in post-issuance proceedings including Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs). Firm attorneys are also experienced in handling governmental investigations, such as those brought by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and states Attorneys General. Often these investigations are preceded by Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs), which involves our interaction with governmental agency staff counsel as well as attorneys from the Department of Justice. Our attorneys are also experienced at the appellate level, having multiple victories at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the various other Circuit Courts of Appeals, and various International Tribunals.
Our technical expertise covers the full gamut of engineering and scientific fields, including electrical, computer and software engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering, mechanics and mechanical engineering, and biotechnology. Some of our attorneys have been staff engineers for some of the most well recognized technology companies in the world, and others have been post-doctoral researchers in some of the most respected universities in the world. Our litigation strategy is based on the premise that a SWAT team is more effective than an army. We staff cases with resources necessary to win, not with what is needed to keep lawyers busy.
In spite of the fact that patent cases can generate terabytes of data in discovery, only a handful of important documents end up convincing a jury who is right and who is wrong. We pride ourselves on finding and using those important documents to the greatest effect in the most efficient ways. By doing so, we can operate on a much lower budget than our opposing counsel.
We are a 50% woman-owned law firm with litigation experience per attorney unequaled by any firm of any size.
