Woodcock Washburn counsels manufacturing clients on protecting their intellectual property. The application of manufacturing technology spans a broad and diverse range of applications.

We help clients prosecute and license patents related to manufacturing methods/processes for products such as beverage cans and bottles, automobile and truck parts, medical devices, electrical equipment, chemicals, petroleum products, adhesives, data storage devices, electrical connectors, semiconductors, electronic displays, and more. Representative clients include Crown Cork and Seal, DuPont, Elster Electricity, GKN Sinter Metals, Henkel, and Johnson & Johnson.

Woodcock Washburn attorneys' technical and scientific backgrounds allow us to grasp a client's technology quickly. In addition, we thoroughly study each client's business and strategic direction. Our lawyers actively participate in industry groups such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the New Jersey Technology Council, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies.

Our firm also litigates intellectual property disputes involving a wide variety of manufacturing technologies. Some recent representative cases include:

• Dentsply v. Hu-Friedy (M.D. Pa.). Our firm successfully represented Dentsply in this case involving an ultrasonic tooth-cleaning tool manufacturing process.
• CFMT Inc. v. Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co. (N.D. Calif.). Woodcock Washburn won this case for CFMT involving semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
• Checkpoint Sys. Inc. v. All-Tag S.A. et al. (E.D. Pa.). The firm's attorneys successfully represented Checkpoint in an action involving deactivation mechanisms and methods of fabricating deactivatable resonance labels used in electronic article surveillance systems.
• Crown Packaging Technology Inc. v. Rexam Beverage Can Co. (D. Del.). Woodcock Washburn won this case for Crown involving the process and equipment for manufacturing beverage containers.