Costa Mesa, CA, United States, California

IP Litigation

We handle patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes—protecting your intellectual property through strategic legal action.

Patent Infringement Litigation

The basis of patent infringement litigation is one party’s assertion that another party is violating its legal rights with regard to intellectual property. Particularly in cases in which a violation is found to be willful, the penalty for patent infringement can be harsh enough to sink a smaller company or significantly damage a larger company. Serious patent infringement matters call for serious representation from an attorney with the necessary technical and legal expertise.

An experienced patent attorney can protect a company’s interests in pre-emptive or reactive ways. The former tend to involve careful evaluation of patent claims and the prevention of litigation, while the latter may involve working strategically to mitigate the impact on a respondent in patent litigation.

Orange County patent infringement attorney Roland Tong has exceptional experience and resources in the area of patent infringement litigation. Equipped with a strong track record in court and a proven commitment to client service, he represents parties in patent matters involving:

  • Willful infringement: Respondents wishing to avoid maximum penalties through findings of willful infringement — these are often known as treble damages — need experienced counsel.
  • The need for noninfringement opinions and counseling, services that help a business understand conclusively whether patent infringement has occurred
  • Literal infringement, contributory infringement, infringement by inducement and cases involving multiple patents
  • Clearance opinions: Also known as a clearance investigation and a freedom to operate opinion, a clearance opinion can be invaluable for a company wishing to avoid patent disputes or prevent exacerbation of an existing problem. To that end, I facilitate thorough patent searches and formulate opinions regarding the launch of new products
  • Injunctions and Declaratory Judgments
  • Patent Defenses such as the First Sale Doctrine or Patent Exhaustion, Inventorship, Patent Invalidity, Patent Misuse, Laches and Inequitable Conduct
  • Claim Construction and Markman Hearing
  • Local Patent Rules
  • Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
  • Calculation of Patent Damages

If you are seeking a Southern California lawyer with patent litigation expertise, complete an online contact form, call 949-693-1537 or text 949-331-2889 to schedule an appointment. 

Trademark Litigation

Trademarks and trade dress may have enormous inherent value for a business. Trademark litigation usually boils down to the protection of marks and the preservation of successful ways of doing business — or defending against assertions that infringement or other wrongdoing has occurred.

Trademark litigation that threatens a company’s success calls for expert legal guidance. It calls for focused representation that is as cost-effective as possible. Complete an online contact form, call 949-693-1537 or text 949-331-2889 to schedule a consultation.

Orange County trademark litigation lawyer Roland Tong provides advice and result-oriented counsel in trademark disputes. He represents parties in complex trademark litigation involving:

  • Trade dress infringement
  • Seizure of counterfeit goods
  • Cancellation of trademarks that violate (or allegedly violate) existing trademarks
  • Opposition, a process that typically involves one party trying to stop another party seeking registration of a trademark
  • Concurrent use rights
  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings, which can address competition and concurrent use agreements
  • Domestic and international trademarks

Equipped with extensive legal and technical knowledge and a proven commitment to responsive client service, he provides solutions to very difficult problems involving intellectual property.

If you are seeking a Southern California attorney with significant trademark litigation experience, complete an online contact form, call 949-693-1537 or text 949-331-2889 to schedule an appointment. 

Trade Secrets And Unfair Competition

A trade secret is like a special family recipe — it is unique and valuable — but often with much greater commercial value. A trade secret can be defined as information that derives value from being confidential. It can take the form of a technology, a process, a method, an algorithm or a formula that is not available to everyone.

In the business world, competition can be a good thing. Unfair competition generally refers to illegal forms of commercial competition that can create an unjust advantage — an unbalanced playing field — for one company over another. Complete an online contact form, call 949-693-1537 or text 949-331-2889 to schedule a consultation.

Orange County trade secrets attorney Roland Tong is committed to providing effective representation in complex intellectual property litigation involving trade secrets and unfair competition. Equipped with a strong track record in court and a proven commitment to client service, he represents parties in matters involving:

  • Misappropriation of trade secrets and other unauthorized uses of proprietary information
  • Breaches of confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements
  • Labels, stamps and marks
  • Customer lists, formulas, manufacturing processes and other secrets
  • False advertising
  • Related claims in state courts
  • Rights of publicity

As an attorney who concentrates on intellectual property law, he has extensive experience with trade secret matters and unfair competition cases related to computer technologies, gaming devices, mechanical devices, medical devices, nutritional supplements, pet products and other products and services.

If you are seeking a Southern California lawyer with a proven track record in the areas of trade secrets and unfair competition, complete an online contact form, call 949-693-1537 or text 949-331-2889 to schedule an appointment. Attorney Roland Tong offers a free initial consultation, competitive rates and alternative fee structures.

Defend What’s Uniquely Yours

Whether you’re facing infringement or unfair competition, we provide focused legal strategies to protect and enforce your IP rights—ensuring your ideas stay yours.

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Roland Tong is a partner at the law firm of Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP. He represents businesses throughout Southern California in a wide range of matters including Intellectual Property and Business Litigation.

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