IP Essentials: Q&A Series is a toolkit for entrepreneurs, innovators, and business owners to explore complex intellectual property law topics in an easily digestible format.
About Us
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BETTER IP. BETTER WORLD. Lando & Anastasi’s dynamic intellectual property attorneys work alongside inventors, scientists, and business owners to secure their innovations, helping to build a better world . Our firm’s practice combines deep expertise in cutting-edge technologies and industry experience with a proven ability to deliver innovative, sophisticated, and strategic solutions for protecting and expanding our clients’ intellectual property assets. A Passionate Commitment to Intellectual Property Protection Since our beginnings in 2003, we have adhered to a clear set of principles. We place our clients’ business goals at the forefront. We focus on the technologies that drive innovation and growth. We believe outstanding client service is paramount. Because each client is unique, we prioritize the flexibility and accessibility of our legal team to build productive working relationships that maximize value. This approach has made a real difference for our clients and has helped L&A to be consistently acknowledged as one of the country’s leading IP boutique law firms.
“Big picture thinkers and talented portfolio developers who understand and know how to address the issues companies face when expanding. The impressive team is commercial, creative, and technically savvy, with two- thirds of its practitioners having advanced science, engineering, and business degrees, in addition to several PhDs.” – IAM Patent 1000 The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners
Effective and Innovative IP Strategies for Modern Businesses Our clients are changemakers and innovators—individuals, early-stage and venture-backed startups, small businesses, large corporations, and global conglomerates. Regardless of size, stage, or industry, obtaining expert guidance early in the development of intellectual property can be pivotal to business success. L&A practitioners deliver innovative strategies and solutions that support the sophisticated work of our clients, help them avoid potential pitfalls, and leverage their intellectual property to the fullest.
"What sets them apart is a deep understanding of the technology, to the point where they can converse with the technical people on an equal basis. This considerable understanding translates into very high-quality patents." –Client, Head of Intellectual Property, Evoqua | Xylem
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THE LAW, SCIENCE, BUSINESS, & IMAGINATION BEHIND PROTECTING YOUR INNOVATIONS The expertise of the Lando & Anastasi team spans the full industry and technology spectrum— from life sciences and medical devices to computer science and advanced manufacturing. We work passionately to understand our clients’ innovations from every angle to create a comprehensive view of commercial IP assets and future flexibility. Our fluency in the evolving technology and the legal and regulatory landscapes positions us as trusted advisors, helping our clients compete effectively in the global marketplace.
Practice Areas
Industries & Technologies
Patent
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Trademark Litigation
Computer Technology & Software
Consumer Products
Strategic Counseling Licensing & Transactions
Electronics
Chemical & Material Sciences
Copyright
Life Sciences
Trade Secrets
Mechanical & Industrial
Post-Grant Review
Medical Devices
Insights and Collaboration that Enhance Business Value Securing, protecting, and defending the intellectual property rights of our clients demands a broad range of specialized legal skills. We work with our clients to understand their unique business imperatives, and to formulate the best approach to protecting their valuable assets. Our teams collaborate across practices to achieve synergies of knowledge that produce innovative approaches to complex issues. We provide top-tier expertise while strategically investing our time with respect to our clients' budgets and timelines. We measure our success by our clients' success.
“L&A challenges us to think deeper and more broadly, while staying within the scope of reasonableness. They’re bringing both the legal aspect as well as the objective insight. They ask hard questions. That’s why we have such a good track record of getting our patents issued—they’re not just taking direction without challenging us.” – Jim Hoffman, SVP, AOBiome
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WHO WE ARE IS WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT.
• As scientists and engineers, we understand the technical intricacies of your innovations. • As attorneys, we understand the law behind protecting your IP. • As businesspeople, we understand how to position your innovations for growth. • As people, we understand you .
L&A by the Numbers
22 Years of IP Excellence
1129 Patent Applications Filed in 2024
29 Experienced practitioners on the Legal Team 20+ Dedicated Legal & Business Support Professionals 100% Percentage of practitioners with a science or engineering degree
180 Trademarks Filed in 2024 585 Patents Granted in 2024
60% Percentage of practitioners with an
advanced degree (Ph.D., M.S., MBA, etc.)
L&A has received national recognition year after year for our impressive practice, creative approach to serving our clients' needs, and for our supportive and collaborative firm culture.
IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals
WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals
The Best Lawyers in America ® and Ones to Watch ®
Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars – “Highly Recommended”; Finalist, “Firm of the Year – Patent Prosecution”
Chambers USA — Intellectual Property Nationally Ranked Firm and Practitioners
Best Law Firms ® – Tier 1: Patent, Trademark, IP Litigation
Fostering a Diverse & Inclusive Firm Culture L&A is unwavering in our commitment to fostering an environment that celebrates diversity, upholds equity, and promotes inclusion at every level. Our dedication to these principles is not just a statement; it is woven into the fabric of our culture, reflected in our policies, and realized through our actions. We promote an open, caring, and collegial workplace and recognize that the strength of our practice, the practice of law, and the broader community is enriched and strengthened by diverse perspectives.
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BRINGING ELEMENTAL EXPERTISE TO EVERY IP CHALLENGE & OPPORTUNITY
PATENT
TRADEMARK
LITIGATION
L&A’s experienced patent team has a solid track record of recognizing opportunities and devising patent strategies for our clients across a wide range of industries. Our goal is to optimize patent protection, while managing budget concerns; and to secure and defend strong, commercially significant patent portfolios that maximize future flexibility.
A company’s strong brand can be one of its most valuable assets. Our trademark team has the expertise & experience to create and implement a vigorous, proactive plan for brand protection that is both effective and efficient. We design strategies to mitigate emerging risks—from trademark infringement to online piracy and domain issues to international trademark protection.
Our knowledgeable, creative, and results-oriented litigation team has a successful history of handing complex intellectual property disputes in the most active district courts, state courts, the USPTO, and the ITC. We work closely with each client to implement winning litigation strategies which may include trial prevention when that is a viable option.
STRATEGIC COUNSELING
LICENSING & TRANSACTIONS
TRADE SECRETS
IP a cornerstone of our practice at L&A, aimed at enhancing business value through insightful guidance on IP matters. We thoroughly assess each client's business and industry, considering various perspectives to deliver innovative strategies and solutions —including due diligence, patentability analyses, and freedom- to-operate opinions. strategy counseling is
IP assets are often at the center of licensing agreements, acquisitions, and other strategic business transactions. Our skilled practitioners place a strong emphasis on taking a holistic view of our clients’ portfolios to craft agreements and advise on transactions that strongly protect and constructively leverage the IP assets and future development plans.
Trade secrets are a vital, yet often overlooked, dimension of a company’s IP portfolio and taking steps to protect proprietary secrets and business methods before misappropriation occurs is critical. Our team has extensive experience creating strategies that help our clients identify and safeguard their trade secrets and assert their rights in court when necessary.
POST-GRANT REVIEW
DESIGN PATENTS
COPYRIGHT
Copyright law can be an extremely complex component of IP law. L&A attorneys have the passion and knowledge to help clients understand those intricacies, and to defend their valuable copyrighted assets. We take the time to understand how clients’ copyrights fit into their overall business strategy , enabling our legal team to provide tailored protection and enforcement solutions that are both robust and dynamic.
Specialized procedural knowledge is essential to fully leverage post-grant review opportunities, whether you are challenging another party’s patent or looking to strengthen a patent previously granted to you. Following issuance, the patent team provides comprehensive review and support for our clients' portfolios including reissue applications, re- examinations, and IPRs to preserve, and in some cases expand, protection.
Today, product design matters. Whether you are engineering the next VR headset, designing a new line of apparel, or developing an app, it’s important to protect not only the functional aspects of your products but also their appearance . Savvy businesses know that design rights, including design patents, trade dress protection, and copyrights, are an important part of a robust IP portfolio.
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Industries & Technologies
REAL INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE AT THE HEART OF EVERY IP STRATEGY
CHEMICAL & MATERIAL SCIENCES
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
From generative AI and natural language processing to autonomous robotics and personalized medicine, AI has become a driving force behind research and innovation in virtually every sector of the economy. Our team stays up to date with the latest technological developments, regulatory and legal shifts, and emerging trends in AI and we understand the complexities of the AI innovation landscape. Our tailored approach for AI companies : • We work with AI technology startups to protect their IP assets from the earliest stages. • For established AI technology companies, we assess and manage their patent portfolios to best capitalize on their IP investments, while managing business risk.
Our attorneys and legal professionals draw upon a broad range of industry experience in consulting, field engineering, and academia to collaborate with clients representing diverse industries from cleantech venture funds to water treatment & reuse to industrial conglomerates. We provide thoughtful and comprehensive counsel to help chemical and materials companies reach their full commercial potential and to protect their most important innovations and assets. Results matter: • L&A has been the sole intellectual property counsel for Evoqua (now Xylem) in the U.S. for nearly 30 years. We help the client develop strategies to grow, protect, and enforce their groundbreaking innovations in water and wastewater treatment.
COMPUTER SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGY
CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Our passion and expertise span the full technology spectrum—from computer science and software to Internet, cloud security, and mobile technologies. We work to understand our clients’ innovations from every angle—including alternative applications—to create a comprehensive view of commercial IP assets. Several members of our team gained industry experience at large technology companies as software and hardware engineers and as in-house counsel. Results matter: • Developed and implemented strategy for pioneering SaaS company in the field of location- based networking, for international protection of their marks and securing registrations in the U.S. and abroad. • We have represented a prominent additive manufacturing company with respect to patents and trademarks for their 3D-printing technology, from their startup beginnings, through their IPO, and into their current stage of growth and acquisition.
We understand the intense global competition consumer product manufacturers face. Our extensive experience in this market—including serving as in- house counsel in electronics, tools, household products, apparel, sporting goods, and more— provides us the in-depth knowledge and insight to create strategies that maximize the value of our clients’ IP portfolios. Our tailored approach for consumer products companies : • Analyze and prioritize core technology elements to focus patent filings on the most valuable and protectable assets. • Collaborate with clients to develop product design protection strategies. • Provide comprehensive IP support, including licensing, budget forecasting, and analysis. • Protect valuable brands with strategic trademark counseling, clearance, and portfolio management.
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REAL INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE AT THE HEART OF EVERY IP STRATEGY
ELECTRONICS
LIFE SCIENCES
As the pace of innovation accelerates, our ever- increasing knowledge of the constantly evolving technology and legal landscape makes us trusted advisors, helping clients to compete effectively in the global marketplace. The expertise of L&A legal team covers the full electronics spectrum—from cables and connectors, electromagnetics, RF, and optics to signal processing, and semiconductors. Results matter: • We work with industry leader Schneider Electric to protect their many innovations in sustainable energy storage, supporting their mission to make sustainable energy accessible to all. • We prepare and prosecute approximately 100‒200 patent applications a year for our client, a Fortune 500 semiconductor company.
Our Life Sciences team is made up of highly qualified scientists that are also attorneys, patent agents, and technology specialists, with deep expertise spanning the full spectrum of the life sciences space—biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and AI-supported computational methods. Specific focus areas include small molecule pharmaceuticals, proteins and peptides, oligonucleotides, conjugates, cell-based therapies, diagnostics, formulations, and drug delivery platforms. Our tailored approach for life sciences companies : • Implement and manage complex patent portfolios worldwide from early discovery through commercialization. • Provide strategic counselling that integrates IP issues, such as freedom-to-operate and patentability with technical and competitive issues.
MECHANICAL & INDUSTRIAL
MEDICAL DEVICES
The mechanical/industrial space is broad in scope and enormous in impact. From developing electrical connectors to testing advances in optics, our clients are engaged in industries that are vital to everyday life. Our attorneys and legal professionals have expertise across a wide range of mechanical and industrial innovations, from imaging and control systems to sensors and communications systems. Prior to entering the field of law, several members of our team worked as in-house engineers engaged in front-line research and development. Our tailored approach for mechanical & industrial companies : • Provide strategic analysis of commercially important IP assets, from advanced fabrication technologies to novel consumer electronics. • Work with clients to develop effective IP strategies to capitalize on R&D investments, prioritizing core technology to focus on the most valuable and protectable IP assets.
Technology convergence is a driving force behind medical device innovation. Our diverse in-house expertise—ranging from chemistry and biochemistry to computer technologies and electro-mechanical systems—enables us to quickly understand the inventive aspects of even the most complex technologies behind today’s leading medical devices. This approach enables us to provide innovative solutions that are both highly effective and efficient. Members of our legal team have expertise across a range of advanced medical technologies and devices. Results matter: • We support CMR Surgical in their mission to redefine the surgical robotics market, providing strategic patent and trademark support for their core robotics technologies and R&D. • We assisted a start-up medical device company in developing and growing an international patent portfolio that attracted investors and generated millions of dollars for the client.
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Our People
PEOPLE
PARTNERS • John N. AnastasI • Gregory R. Gerstenzang • Nathan T. Harris • Peter C. Lando • Angelyn Larkin, Ph.D. • Keith F. Noe • Nicole A. Palmer • David M. Roccio • Robert A Skrivanek, Jr. • Craig R. Smith • John T. Spangenberger • Thomas M. Sullivan ASSOCIATES • M. Ari Behar • Amanda V. Cardona • Ricky Y. DeMello • Joseph W. DePalma • Kevin M. Eckert
COUNSEL • Gary C. Ganzi, Senior Counsel • Ann Lamport Hammitte, Senior Counsel
• Thomas P. McNulty, Counsel • Andrea B. Reed, Of Counsel
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