Telecommunications technologies have blurred industrial boundaries. Telecoms now are both digital and analog point-to-point data providers. They deliver television content, connect computers and telephones to the Internet and provide all manner of telephone service (digital, analog, wireless). As broadcasters, telecoms face potential IP issues relative to content. And as manufacturers of phone devices add ever-expanding functionality (recording/photographing), new IP issues are emerging. This is in addition to the industry’s core IP issues: protecting the intellectual property of proprietary product manufacturing and communications technology innovations. CPLP knows the telecom industry and has the broad technical and legal experience to guide telecom clients through their various IP challenges and to defend and protect against infringement worldwide. The firm provides world-class litigation services, and approaches all IP matters as potential litigations to be won or avoided. Telecommunications companies rely on us to apply this approach in our substantial patent prosecution, licensing, opinion work and counseling practices.

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