In addition to a large number of other technologies and sciences, Michael Best's intellectual property team includes 22 patent attorneys and engineers having at least one degree in mechanical engineering. This mechanical engineering intellectual property team works in a wide variety of mechanical engineering technologies to provide a full range of intellectual property services to large and small companies, universities, and organizations throughout the United States and around the world. A large number of these clients have developed patent portfolios representing significant investments in various aspects of mechanical engineering technology.
Our mechanical intellectual property team has deep knowledge and experience in thermodynamics, heat transfer, vibration, statics, dynamics, nanotechnology, fluid dynamics, and other mechanical engineering disciplines. Michael Best's mechanical intellectual property team leverages this wide scope of expertise to counsel clients in protecting and enforcing intellectual property in all types of mechanical engineering applications. For example, we provide intellectual property legal services to clients in the business of developing and manufacturing pumps, compressors, brakes, clutches, fans, engines, fuel cells, turbines, intake and exhaust systems, devices and systems for automobiles, motorcycles, farm and construction vehicles, recreational vehicles, aircraft, and other vehicles, heat exchangers, medical and biomedical devices, HVAC and other heating and cooling systems, locks and security systems, paper manufacturing and converting equipment, packaging equipment, conveyor and other automation systems, sensors, power tools, bedding products, water and wastewater treatment systems, printers and printing systems, optical and imaging systems, electrical and mechanical power transmission systems and equipment, child safety devices, laboratory equipment, ovens, and consumer appliances and products of all types.
Over a period of several years, Michael Best has accumulated an extensive amount of mechanical engineering institutional knowledge as applied to intellectual property protection and enforcement, including patent searching, patent application preparation, filing, and prosecution, and patentability, noninfringement, and right-to-use opinions.