--- title: Kagan Binder - intellectual property law description: Specializing in intellectual property law, Kagan Binder offers a comprehensive range of legal services for patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. 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Marvel Entertainment, LLC, 135 S. Ct. 2401 (2015). Kimble evaluates whether a patent owner can collect any kind of patent royalty (e.g., royalty under a license or royalty for an assignment) for activity occurring after a patent expires. ... 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[Read More](https://kaganbinder.com/library/are-you-getting-submarined-by-your-sublicenses?hsLang=en) [EXPLORE ALL ARTICLES](https://kaganbinder.com/library?hsLang=en) ## Our Services ### Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights Our intellectual property legal services revolve around guiding clients through the intricate process of preparing, procuring, and maintaining their intellectual property rights both in the United States and internationally.  From groundbreaking innovations to incremental advancements, we help our clients secure robust patent protection, ensuring our clients' ideas integrate well into strategic business planning and are safeguarded against infringement.   In the realm of trademarks, we are dedicated to assisting clients in crafting, acquiring, and sustaining their brand identities. Whether it's protecting literary, artistic, or technological creations, we ensure our clients' copyrights are secure domestically and internationally, empowering them to flourish in an ever-evolving global landscape. [Learn More](https://kaganbinder.com/patents-trademarks-and-copyrights?hsLang=en) ### Technology Agreements Kagan Binder attorneys are experienced in negotiating and preparing complex licensing, product development, and other technology-related agreements. Intellectual property agreements are indispensable protection tools when doing business with others. [Learn More](https://kaganbinder.com/technology-agreements?hsLang=en) ### Opinions Our attorneys are experienced in helping clients formulate and execute global intellectual property strategies to help clients use intellectual property to build their businesses and be more competitive as well as to avoid and defend against the intellectual property rights of others. [Learn More](https://kaganbinder.com/opinions?hsLang=en) ### Portfolio Development and Management Integrating legal, business, and technical acumen, Kagan Binder ensures you follow strategic processes to procure and maintain your patents, trademarks, and copyrights. We keep budgeting priorities in mind to make sure your portfolio is cost-effective and commercially meaningful.  We provide portfolio development and ongoing management services to businesses all over the world. [Learn More](https://kaganbinder.com/portfolio-development?hsLang=en) ### IP Due Diligence Kagan Binder attorneys help parties on both the buying and selling side to conduct due diligence for deals ranging in size from licensing or assignment of a single patent to those involving acquisitions or mergers in which the deal is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.   [Learn More](https://kaganbinder.com/ip-due-diligence?hsLang=en) ### Dispute Resolution Our attorneys help clients to attack or defend intellectual property (e.g., patents and trademarks) in administrative dispute actions in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (e.g. inter partes review proceedings) as well as in international oppositions, particularly in Europe and Japan.  Our attorneys also are called upon to team with trial counsel in technology-related litigation, especially patent litigation. Our attorneys not only have been part of the trial team but also have served as patent experts in litigated matters. 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