Firm Profile

Meet Van Court & Aldridge LLP

Van Court & Aldridge LLP is a boutique patent law firm that provides a wide range of patent-related legal services including:

  • Preparing, filing, and prosecuting patent applications in a wide range of technology areas
  • Developing patent portfolio strategies in line with client goals that allows small companies to obtain a competitive edge and larger companies to retain theirs
  • Managing patent portfolios including analyzing portfolio status and pruning to save cost, attending technical review meetings to match the patent portfolio to the latest product developments, establishing and maintaining an invention program, and targeting prosecution to capture client competitors
  • Conducting due diligence analyses of client or third party intellectual property assets
  • Rendering opinions on patent infringement, validity, and enforceability
  • Performing freedom-to-operate studies for new products
  • Providing advice with respect to asserting patents and defending against patent infringement claims

Van Court & Aldridge LLP provides big-firm quality legal representation at small-firm prices based on our law firm experiences at Fish & Neave (now part of Ropes & Gray LLP), Ropes & Gray LLP,  and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, and our in-house experiences at Apple.