Paul Taufer is experienced in handling all aspects of domestic and international intellectual property law. This includes patent prosecution and litigation; trademark and copyright prosecution and litigation; trade secrets; unfair competition; licensing infringement; clearance investigation and analysis; interferences; trademark oppositions and cancellations; reexamination and reissue; product development and acquisition; and inventorship and ownership.

Mr. Taufer has served as trial counsel in domestic and international litigation. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in inter-party and ex parte proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Taufer's patent litigation experience includes both asserting and defending claims of patent infringement and invalidity. In the US, he litigated cases in the federal courts and in bankruptcy court. Internationally, he litigated cases in Germany and the United Kingdom. The subject matter covered various technologies in the electrical, electro-mechanical and mechanical fields.

Mr. Taufer has also represented clients in relation to issues of inventorship, including interferences in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. His trademark litigation experience includes asserting and defending claims of trademark infringement in the federal courts. In addition, Mr. Taufer has also represented clients in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings in the trademark offices in the US, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia. He has litigated copyright infringement actions in the US federal courts and in the United Kingdom. Mr. Taufer has also advised US and international clients on issues including corporate structuring, research and development, product acquisition and proprietary rights.

Mr. Taufer handles patent matters for clients in the electrical, electromechanical, mechanical and software technologies including:

• communications, computer hardware and software, e-commerce transactions, networking and Internet-related patent applications, business methods, electronic data storage and retrieval, remote actuators, signal regeneration, monitoring devices, electronic controls, access hardware and closure fasteners and hinges.
• medical appliances and procedures, metering, ophthalmology, semiconductors, valve design and operation, pulmonary aerosolizers and inhalers, blood collecting and purification, fuel dispensing, ice generation, roofing materials, packaging and sludge processing.

Admissions

• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• US Patent & Trademark Office

Memberships

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• New Jersey Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association