Knobbe Martens Intellectual Property Law - Financial Services &
Business Methods
Our Financial Services and Business Methods Group handles patent
matters and manages patent assets for some of the world’s largest
software, e-commerce and financial services companies. We also
frequently assist startup companies in developing procedures and
strategies for protecting their innovations. Our extensive experience
includes patent landscape searching, patent clearance analysis, and
detailed evaluation of third-party patent infringement assertions. We
also counsel clients regarding strategic development of technologies,
indemnification issues, and licensing agreements. We have developed
and implemented comprehensive intellectual property programs for
pre-litigation, licensing and enforcement purposes. In the financial
sector, we advise our clients regarding non-disclosure agreements,
trade secrets, and patents. We have particular experience with systems
for market analysis and trading, credit processing and monitoring, and
provisioning structured securities. Our experience in the financial
services arena, together with our experience with the relevant law,
allows us to provide our clients with valuable insights into complex
issues such as evaluating tradeoffs between the various forms of
intellectual property protection. The growing impact of business
methods in a connected, global economy is reflected in our success
with prosecuting patent applications in foreign countries. Working
with select attorneys around the world, we have experienced successes
in places such as Europe, India and China. Our attorneys have
experience in all areas of Financial Services and Business Methods,
including: Cloud computing platforms Coordinated multi-computer data
processing Mobile computing paradigms and systems Content caching and
delivery Personalization algorithms Advertisement provisioning User
interfaces Social networking deployment and integration Cutting edge
e-commerce systems Financial indices and products Mobile payment
systems Mobile applications Digital content creation and distribution
Web services Credit Monitoring & Reporting
