The rapid growth of high stakes intellectual property litigation in recent years demands a more proactive and multi-disciplinary approach, with an emphasis on litigation prevention. Dykema has expanded its IP Litigation practice to meet these needs and to continue to provide the highest quality of IP legal services to our clients.


Our IP Litigation practice handles matters involving three distinct disciplines: intellectual property, commercial litigation and employment law. Combining these three disciplines enables our attorneys to understand intellectual property from multiple perspectives. Today, simply obtaining a patent is not enough. A strategy is essential for anticipating where the cracks in the dam will appear and then filling in the cracks long before the sand bags are needed. 

Our IP Litigation practice can address a wide variety of issues including:

• Antitrust
• Patents 
• Trademarks
• Trade secrets
• Non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
• Employment disputes and many others

In addition to being costly and extremely complex, patent and other IP litigation is an area normally excluded by insurance policies, so defendants pay damages, court costs and legal fees out of their own pockets. Another reason to have the most bullet-proof patent and other protection possible is that companies must be concerned about losing exclusive rights to new technologies and devices as a result of ever-increasing unauthorized copying of technology.

The IP practice’s mission is to help our clients adopt a proactive approach to preventing patent litigation, as well as disputes involving other intellectual property such as trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. If litigation is necessary, the Team will provide aggressive and cost-effective representation out of the firm’s Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. offices, as well as through affiliate offices in Europe, South America and Asia.

For more information on our IP Litigation Team, contact:
Allan J. Sternstein, Director 312-627-2143