Practice Areas

Underwood & Associates represents clients ranging from multinational corporations to individual inventors. Our scalable teams include patent practitioners and scientists with advanced degrees and paralegal support ready to accept even the most challenging patent intellectual property initiatives. We provide the full range of services necessary to obtain patent protection for your inventions: from patentability searches and opinions, to drafting patent applications and prosecuting them through the United States Patent Office. We partner with a network of excellent foreign patent attorneys and agents to provide global patent intellectual property coverage for those seeking extensive patent protection. Our practice areas include (but are not limited to):
  • Mechanical Engineering / Devices
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • Optics / Lasers / Spectroscopy (especially ultrafast spectroscopy)
  • Medical Devices
  • Nanotechnology
  • Renewable Energy
  • Software
  • Aviation
  • First-Responder Inventions (for police / paramedics / firefighters)