Nicholas Schmidbauer

Tackling the most serious IP challenges effectively

Nick Schmidbauer is a leading intellectual property (IP) strategist who works with national and multinational companies to build, secure, enforce, protect and monetize their IP. Nick and his team address the full range of IP needs, including:

• Patent, trademark and copyright applications and prosecution
• Global IP protection and enforcement
• Clearance, infringement and validity determinations and opinions
• IP litigation and dispute resolution

A highly skilled team leader and problem solver, Nick focuses a critical eye on a company’s business needs and crafts IP strategies to align with a client’s long-term business goals. Clients rely on Nick and his team to take on the most serious IP challenges and, with incisive analysis and hard work, deliver optimal results.

Nick is chair of the Consumer Product and Industrial Design sub-group of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group.

• Counseling on all aspects of IP procurement, protection, enforcement and litigation.
• Assisting with the prosecution of utility and design patent applications in more than 100 countries.
• Advising on the practice and procedure of filing for and obtaining patent rights in all of the top commercially significant nations to assure clients get broad-ranging protection. Continually maintaining awareness of updates to both domestic and international patent law, Nick is plugged in to sometimes rapidly changing prosecution strategies and pitfalls in jurisdictions around the world.
• Bringing strategic IP acumen to address unanticipated emergency situations, including new enforcement opportunities.