Dority & Manning is dedicated exclusively to intellectual property law. The firm provides comprehensive IP services in the areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair trade practices, licensing, and litigation.
Each Dority & Manning attorney is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and holds a degree in a technical discipline, spanning Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Physics and Chemistry.
Providing one-on-one client service, our attorneys have enjoyed an insider's view of innovation around the world, from NASA's lunar module to advanced materials and photonics to medical devices and life sciences to automotive technologies to textile equipment.
Dority & Manning's location along the "Southeastern Innovation Corridor" enables the firm to provide responsive service to corporate and university clients throughout this explosively growing area. The firm has also developed a strong capability to serve nationwide and international clients, leveraging technology and firm infrastructure for seamless worldwide support.
Dority and Manning assists clients in the following:
Acquiring, maintaining, transferring, and litigating their intellectual property rights.
Providing patentability evaluations, patent validity and infringement studies, and right-to-practice opinions.
Preparing and prosecuting domestic and international utility patent, design patent, and trademark applications.
Defending copyrights and trademarks, protecting against counterfeiting, and solving internet-related intellectual property disputes.
Negotiating agreements for transfer and licensing of technology, and drafting and enforcing technology ownership, non-disclosure and non-competition agreements.
