Intellectual Property
Attorneys
ESSENTIAL PATENTS GROUP LLP, est. 2014
Essential Patents Group (EPG), located in Lake Oswego, Oregon, is a patent law firm focusing on patent procurement and portfolio management for corporate clients.
EPG attorneys have extensive engineering experience spanning many different technology spaces, enabling us to work efficiently with inventors.
Most EPG attorneys have practiced patent law for decades allowing every client to receive guidance based on extensive experience. EPG attorneys also have substantial experience partnering with corporate counsel in the management of their patent portfolio. Examples include temporarily providing in-house counsel and/or paralegal services for clients lacking adequate internal resources.
EPG is extremely flexible with fee arrangements and seeks cost-effective, customized pricing structures for all patent-related services.
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Areas of Practice
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EPG attorneys have drafted thousands of patent applications in a wide range of technology spaces including computer hardware, robotic systems, semiconductor devices, fiber and optical devices, electrical circuit design, e-commerce, networking, software applications including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and many other mechanical and chemical fields including medical devices, consumer devices, and industrial and manufacturing processes and tooling.
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EPG attorneys have prosecuted to issuance thousands of patent applications pending before the United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). EPG attorneys can be trusted to prepare office action responses with or without direct involvement of the client. EPG attorneys draft claim amendments and arguments tailored to each client’s priorities, such as minimizing prosecution history estoppel, minimizing time to issuance, and/or maximizing claim breadth.
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EPG attorneys can efficiently analyze patent portfolios to report out strengths and weaknesses. Competitive portfolio analysis data may be applied in targeted patent claiming to better ensure a client covers trends in a technology space and not just their own products or services within that space. Portfolio analysis may also be leveraged to prune a patent portfolio for cost reduction.
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EPG attorneys maintain relationships with international patent law firms and together have prosecuted thousands of patent applications to issuance in many jurisdictions including, but not limited to, Australia, China, the European Union, Germany, India, Japan and South Korea. EPG attorneys can be a liaison between corporate counsel and various patent law firms in other jurisdictions to respond, with or without client involvement, in a manner that is consistent across all jurisdictions.
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EPG attorneys can assist clients with many other patent-related matters, including drafting Freedom to Operate Opinions and Non-Infringement Opinions, and supporting a client’s Patent Licensing and Litigation efforts.
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