Featured Practice Areas

Electrical Engineering – Electronic component designs, circuitry, metering devices, optical and electro-optical devices

Computing and Information Analysis – Software and business methods, RFID technologies and applications, internet and e-commerce

Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical – Pharmaceuticals, assay systems, anti-microbials, life sciences

Chemical Engineering and Materials – Films, polymer science, electrical component materials, textile chemistry, nanoparticles, carbon dots

Gaming and Entertainment – Lottery and card games, materials for games of chance, sporting goods

Mechanical Engineering – Vehicle components and hardware, ordnance and projectiles, printing materials, medical devices

Textile and Manufacturing – Woven and non-woven textiles, conveyors, accumulators and complex machinery, textile chemistry

Complex Patent Prosecution – Preparing, prosecuting, managing, and consolidating worldwide patents and applications, using cutting edge electronic infrastructure

Litigation and Dispute Resolution – Enforcing and defending intellectual property rights in Courts, counseling on pre-litigation strategies and/or avoidance, and negotiating settlement of disputes

Trademarks, Copyrights and Designs – Protecting, transferring, and defending trademarks, service marks, trade dress, copyrights, and patented designs

E-Commerce and E-Business – Advising on internet and electronic business issues, such as domain name registrations, meta tags, cybersquating, licensed use of materials, and business method and e-commerce patents

Intellectual Property Counseling – Managing and advising on all facets of intellectual property practice faced by in-house attorneys and other decision makers

 
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Full-Service Intellectual Property Practice:  Procurement, Litigation, Opinions, Licensing, and Related Counseling

Dority & Manning's lawyers practice all aspects of intellectual property law. Our clients turn to us for services in patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, unfair trade practices, internet issues, trade secrets, and licensing. We have a focused litigation practice with experience assisting our clients in courts throughout South Carolina and the United States and in tribunals abroad. Our attorneys provide counseling and complex portfolio management for start-up, corporate, and university clients.

We proudly say that we are "engineered to meet your needs” because each Dority & Manning attorney and patent agent has a technical degree and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Our personnel have enjoyed an insider's view of technical innovation around the world. Our experience ranges from NASA's lunar module to advanced materials and photonics to pharmaceuticals and medical devices to complex machinery to automotive technologies and more.

We serve clients along the explosively growing "Southeastern Innovation Corridor," as well as clients across the nation and around the world. We utilize cutting edge technologies, firm infrastructure, and talented personnel to meet the high expectations of our clients.

In 2009, Dority & Manning celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding by Mackie Manning and Julian Dority. The founders wished to build a collegial firm whose people performed work of the highest quality, with an efficient, business-friendly mindset, and where long term client-attorney relationships are created and maintained. Following these principles, the firm has grown steadily into a tech-savvy, full-service IP firm. Confidently, we look forward to the next twenty five years and beyond.