Mechanical Technologies

Overview

Volpe Koenig’s mechanical group comprises professionals with experience in a diverse array of mechanical and electro-mechanical technologies. Our lawyers, agents, and technical advisors have bachelors and advanced degrees across the spectra of the mechanical arts. Some members of our team have practical industry experience or prior experience as Patent Examiners for the USPTO. Several of our professionals are or were registered Professional Engineers.

Our mechanical group professionals prepare and prosecute both utility and design patents directed to various consumer and industrial products and processes in this field. We have an impressive record in matters ranging from patent reissues, reexaminations, and inter partes patent challenges at the USPTO, and also routinely deal with appeals of rejections to the Board of Patent Appeals.

Firm attorneys have also successfully enforced numerous patents obtained for our clients in the mechanical arts. We also provide design consultations, including design around options, as well as clearance and invalidity opinions for our clients who are designing new products for introduction. This can be critical in avoiding third party patents in certain product areas. Additionally, we have successfully defended our clients from third party allegations of infringement as well as infringement actions filed in the U.S. federal courts.

In addition to representing our clients in front of the USPTO and U.S. federal courts, we also represent our clients worldwide by working with our foreign associates to protect and enforce our clients’ intellectual property interests wherever needed.

Our professionals have legal and industry experience in many areas, including :

Advanced composite materials and manufacture technology
Aircraft systems
Appliances
Automotive engine and transmission components
Automotive parts
Battery structures, formation systems and assembly equipment
Bearings
Bicycle gear sets, shifters and wheels
Bone screws and hip replacement parts
Catheters
Clutch materials and actuation systems
Coagulation test equipment and test cells
Consumer products
Conveying systems
Cutting Tools
Dental implants
Drug delivery systems
Electronics Components – Resistors, Capacitors, Transistors
Engine and transmission components
Fasteners
Faucet components
Fluid control automation
Food preparation and packaging equipment
Hybrid vehicle drives
Industrial Cutting and Shaping Equipment
Industrial machines and equipment
Laboratory equipment and mixers
Lighting
Manufacturing equipment, injection molding
Medical devices, including endoscopes, implants, catheters, heat expandable implants, occlusion devices, sterilization systems and surgical tools
Metal forming equipment
Microfiltration test cells
Package dimensioning systems
Paintball markers, masks, and equipment
Papermaking equipment and fabrics
Polymeric spinal implants
Process controls and equipment
Process scale filtration techniques
Processing and automation controls and equipment
Racing bicycle components
RFID tracking tags, labels and monitoring/tracking systems
Solenoid valve systems
Specialized fabrics
Static control systems and components
Stents
Strollers and Playpens
Textiles and absorbent materials, cellulosics
Tissue and absorbent materials and equipment
Toys
Transmissions
Underground tubing – downhole well applications
Valve lifters
Variable valve timing systems
Water Guns