- Restraining OrderWe handle all phases of trademark and unfair competition disputes, including initial dispute negotiations and correspondence, temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions and seizures, declaratory judgment proceedings, trials and appeals.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsPrior to joining Renner Otto in 2022, Denis served as in-house counsel at ABB Inc. and Eaton Corporation, where he gained experience in a variety of cross-border corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, standards organizations, and commercial agreement negotiations and disputes.Denis began his legal career at Fish & Richardson in Boston.
- Business DisputesWhether you are securing patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secrets, assessing an intellectual property portfolio during a merger, acquisition, or restructuring, or using litigation to resolve business disputes over infringement or misappropriation, we tailor our approach to achieve results aligned with your business strategy.
- Business TransactionsSarah is involved in patent prosecution including preparing U.S. applications and office action responses as well as working with foreign agents to advance clients’ patent strategies. She is also involved in intellectual property litigation and has participated in copyright litigation by drafting motions, preparing discovery requests and responses, assisting in deposition preparation, analyzing documents produced by opposing counsel for relevancy, in addition to conducting patent and copyright litigation research. Sarah has experience filing consent motions with the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board in trademark opposition proceedings. Sarah had the opportunity to contribute revising and editing various chapters of the Lexis Treatise titled "The Law of Electronic Commercial Transactions.”
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual PropertyMost forms of intellectual property protection, such as copyrights, patents and trademarks, rely on publicly filing an application with the government in exchange for legal protection, but trade secrets—an often overlooked and under-appreciated form of intellectual property—are protected by preventing disclosure to others.
- Unfair CompetitionWhen it comes to her clients, their success is her success. She takes the time to truly understand each client’s business and unique legal needs, and she prides herself on providing the highest level of service and attention with each engagement. Highly regarded in her field, she is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at her alma mater Cleveland Marshall College of Law where she teaches Trademark and Unfair Competition Law.
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- Non-compete AgreementHaving previously been a career law clerk in a federal district court for almost ten years, Larry also has substantive litigation experience in various aspects of federal substantive and procedural intellectual property law. Prior to his government service, Larry was a member of the intellectual property section of a large law firm, where he focused on all phases of intellectual property litigation. His private practice litigation experience includes patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and employee non-compete agreements.