Experience

The McIntosh Legal Group is a firm whose attorneys possess experience in a wide range of technologies. We are experienced in preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the fields of mechanical, biotechnology, computers, business methods, composite chemistry, paints, glues, chemical engineering, telecommunications, satellites and electrical technologies. This blend of skills and experience enables the firm to handle a variety of clients.

Our philosophy relies on creating a customized Patent Strategy for each of our clients.

Patent Strategies: The Key to Financial Success . . .

Determining what to patent involves much more than simply sending your inventions to a patent attorney. Real value results from careful planning and the execution of a well-conceived patent strategy. The McIntosh Legal Group has over 30 years experience creating and implementing patent strategies for large and small companies. Whether your intellectual property business opportunities are at the protection stage, the technology transfer stage, or the enforcement and defense stage, we can help you build real value and avoid potentially disastrous pitfalls.

Our consulting group directs the strategic planning and implementation of intellectual property protection, transfer, litigation, and the formation of business alliances involving proprietary technology.

A Strategy Blueprint . . .

The protection of technology is commonly misperceived as simply filing patent applications or maintaining information as a trade secret. In reality, many factors have significant bearing on the realization of the full value of the technology. Each technology project is unique. The McIntosh Legal Group works with your company’s technical, business, and marketing personnel to understand the technology and develop a protection strategy. The protection strategy then serves as a “working blueprint". The McIntosh Legal Group considers many factors during the course of this analysis and implementation, including, for example:

  • What subject matter can and should be protected by patents? -- The full spectrum of what can be protected is often either overlooked or not appreciated by even experienced managers and patent attorneys. This analysis does not focus on the company's "inventions", but on protectable subject matter to enhance the company's value.
  • What information and data is necessary to properly support the patent applications?
  • How to deal with inventive contributions coming from outside the company?
  • How to deal with improvements made subsequent to the filings?
  • When should the patents be permitted to issue?
  • When may publications be made and what information is appropriate to publish?
  • When sales activities may commence in conjunction with the patent filings?
  • When and through what approaches should international filings be made and how to contain costs in conjunction with such filings?
  • What procedures are required to establish and maintain trade secret protection?
  • Selected Current and Former Clients

  • Adolph Coors Corporation
  • Celestial Seasonings
  • Chronopol, Inc.
  • Composite Technology Corporation
  • CoorsTeck, formerly Coors Ceramics Company
  • Coors Biomedical
  • Coors Biotech
  • CTC Cable Corporation
  • Golden Aluminum Company
  • Golden Photon
  • Golden Technologies
  • Hazen Research Inc.
  • MEMX, Inc.
  • Peak Sensoor Systems LLC
  • Superior MicroPowders LLC
  • Tribal Technologies LLC