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Intellectual Property

Patent Lawyers of Excellence

Success in complex industries relies on protecting and commercializing your intellectual property, especially your patents. Providentia boasts a team of over 20 senior patent lawyers and technologists, many at expert-witness level. They provide advice to the software, hardware, electrical, and mechanical industries.

Seasoned, tech-experienced, IP counsel

With experience representing Fortune 50 companies, Bay Area stalwarts, and mid-sized and emerging companies nationally, our team provides seasoned counsel. We offer advice that is understandable, risk-balanced, and actionable across the full range of IP transactions.

IP Strategy

Providentia offers guidance and thought-leadership on IP strategy. We ensure your designs, branding, and technology are protected. Additionally, we optimize your commercialization opportunities. We advise on patent portfolio development and asset management, creating strategies that grow with you.

Patent Analysis

Providentia’s patent analysis team offers unmatched expertise. From audio, video, and wireless to AI, AR/VR, and NLP, we cover it all. We advise on Open Source Software compliance and commercial differentiation. Furthermore, we assist with Standards participation, candidate contribution risk analysis, and pool formation and licensing.

IP M&A Support

Providentia addresses IP issues during mergers and acquisitions. Whether buying, selling, or going public, we assess and capture the value of patent portfolios. Our team advises on strategic IP acquisitions and divestitures. We also perform technical due diligence for M&As, focusing on monetization from program formation to asset integration.

Pre-Litigation Patent Defense

Providentia advises on patent defense, from non-infringement charting to design-around opportunities. Whether suing or being sued, we formulate non-infringement positions, investigate invalidity, counter assertion opportunities, develop response plans, and mitigate risk. Our expertise makes us patent lawyers of excellence.

Trademarks

Our attorneys prosecute trademark applications, including landscape searches and clearance. We help protect your brand and its goodwill. We choose distinctive word marks and designs in the right classes of goods and services.

Copyrights

Our professionals register and manage copyrighted assets, ensuring all rights are secured. Our attorneys stay updated on copyright law developments, especially regarding AI-generated works. We assist with open-source licensing, development, and compliance.

Trade Secrets

Our lawyers assist with due diligence analysis of trade secrets and develop best practices for secrecy.

Virtual In-House IP Counseling

Our professionals register and manage copyrighted assets, ensuring all rights are secured. Our attorneys stay updated on copyright law developments, especially regarding AI-generated works. We assist with open-source licensing, development, and compliance.

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About Providentia

Providentia is a tech law firm that’s designed to provide counsel and services which are tailored to the needs of tech companies. We take an integrated approach to legal services, working directly with your team to provide comprehensive strategies that go beyond traditional legal analysis.

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Our Solutions

Dual model law firm

Based in Silicon Valley, Providentia‘s dual model of secondment and outside counsel solutions attracts top attorney talent and provides lower legal costs to clients. Our model, and our focus on relationship building and growth enablement, distinguish us from both traditional law firms and legal staffing agencies.

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Providentia is a secondment law firm in san francisco. Illustration of the concept of secondment in law, with a greek statue filling a hole in a legal team.

Prolawyer by Providentia

Our secondment solution, Prolawyer by Providentia, offers enterprise clients seasoned attorneys to support specific legal projects or in-house legal teams. Clients are assured that our attorneys, backed by a law firm with the highest ethical and professional standards, deliver exceptional results.

Business Savvy
Through Prolawyer by Prolawyer by Providentia, we provide a stable, consistent platform that clients use to access high-quality, often long-term secondment support at rates meeting the most stringent budgetary requirements. Our clients range from public enterprise companies to the uppermost echelon of the Fortune 100.

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Outside Counsel Solution

A team of senior, pragmatic, relationship-building lawyers with high-level in-house experience at some of the world’s greatest tech companies who combine across several practice areas to offer competitive legal services to clients.

Tech Savvy
Tech growth companies engage with us because of our collective experience in the tech industry, our focus on supporting go-to-market strategy, and our cost efficiency. Clients range from pre-seed tech entrepreneurs, to late series/pre-IPO start-ups, to public tech companies.

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