Protecting Manufacturing Processes
Manufacturing innovation can create significant competitive advantages through improved processes, equipment, quality, efficiency, repeatability, or product performance. Those improvements may be protectable even when they occur behind the scenes rather than appearing in the finished product.
Manufacturing Equipment & Production Systems
Our experience includes manufacturing technologies associated with semiconductor processing and packaging, coatings processes, jet-engine turbine blade and component manufacture, chemical technologies, automotive systems, and other industrial equipment and processes. This range of experience is useful when manufacturing innovations combine process engineering with specialized materials, equipment, electronics, or mechanical systems.
Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing
We assist manufacturers, engineers, and technology developers in protecting new production methods, process improvements, manufacturing equipment, material-treatment techniques, assembly approaches, and related technologies. Depending on the invention, patent claims may focus on the manufacturing process, specialized equipment, intermediate products, finished products, or combinations of these features.
Coatings and Materials Processing
A strong manufacturing patent strategy begins with understanding where the technical advantage actually occurs. Our approach is to identify the process steps, equipment relationships, operating conditions, or material interactions that distinguish the innovation and develop patent protection directed to those commercially important features.
Related technologies
Patent Strategy for Process Improvements
Our manufacturing experience includes technologies related to semiconductor processing and packaging.
Manufacturing innovations may also involve specialized chemicals and advanced materials.
Where new machinery or production equipment provides the technical advantage, the invention may also fall within mechanical and industrial technologies.
Learn more about our approach to patent preparation and prosecution for technically complex inventions.
Discuss Your Technology
Developing a new technology or preparing to file a patent application? Contact us to discuss your invention and intellectual property objectives.