Young Conaway offers a broad range of intellectual property services to national and international corporate clients. We are focused on achieving our clients’ specific business objectives. With many years of experience in both jury and bench trials before Delaware’s federal and state courts, our attorneys are often asked to take a lead role in technical, bet-the-company cases. The Intellectual Property Litigation Section continues to grow and has been actively adding associates.
Filings in Delaware
The United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the State of Delaware’s Court of Chancery continue to see an increase in intellectual property filings because of the courts’ ability to handle complex, accelerated matters. Several Young Conaway attorneys have served as law clerks or interns and have gained an in-depth knowledge of the state and federal judiciary. With meticulous attention to detail and big picture strategic vision, our attorneys have developed tactics that permit them to efficiently and effectively represent clients across a diverse range of industries and technologies.
Experienced Litigators From Start To Finish
Young Conaway’s litigators can handle every stage of the litigation, from Markman hearings to motions for summary judgment, trials and appeals. Several of Young Conaway’s attorneys also have experience before the USPTO in both traditional ex parte and adversarial proceedings. If it is not in our client’s best interest to litigate a matter, the firm has attorneys who are experienced in handling intellectual property disputes through alternative dispute resolution venues.
Trademarks
Clients and companies turn to Young Conaway and its team of attorneys to evaluate proposed trademarks and engage in enforcement proceedings on behalf of the firm’s clients.
Thought Leaders
Members of Young Conaway’s Intellectual Property team are active as officers and leaders in intellectual property focused bar organizations and are asked to speak at many national and international seminars. They have been recognized by clients and colleagues as leaders in their field by Corp INTL, IAM Patent 1000, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Best Lawyers®, Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Firms and Attorneys, and Delaware Super Lawyers®.
Bunsow De Mory is a nationally recognized litigation boutique that specializes in maximizing the value of IP through strategic litigation. The firm is based in Northern California and has seasoned litigators around the country, including in Texas and Washington, DC.
The firm represents IP owners in federal district courts, federal appellate courts, the ITC, and before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board against the largest companies and law firms in the world and consistently achieves best in class results for its clients.
The firm works on matters across a range of technologies and industries, including mobile communications, consumer electronics, semiconductors, the “internet of things,” automotive, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, fintech, and life sciences.
Bunsow De Mory attorneys are strategic, technically proficient, and trial tested, with decades of experience and success litigating patent cases in venues throughout the country. And even as the landscape for patent owners has become more difficult in recent years, the firm wins. In the last four years alone, current firm partners secured more than $400M in verdicts and settlements.
The firm’s strength is its well-tested ability to formulate strategies that drive results. Bunsow De Mory knows how to maximize its client’s chances of pretrial and trial successes through effective storytelling and strategic planning, which starts before they file a case or immediately upon being retained to work on a case.
Legal experts have recognized the firm’s excellence. In 2024, firm attorneys landed on “best of” lists issued by the following ranking organizations: Chambers USA for patent litigation; Benchmark Litigation as a Litigation Star; Law Dragon as a Top 500 Litigator in America; Managing IP as a Global Top 250 Woman in IP; Global IAM 300 as a Top Patent Strategist; Managing IP as a Top Tier Firm and IPSTARS; The Daily Journal as a Top IP Lawyer; The Daily Journal as a Top Woman Lawyer; and Patexia as Top 100 and Top 250 Best Performing and Active lawyers
at the PTAB.
Leaders in intellectual property law for 100 years.
We are the trusted IP partner of choice for organizations around the world. We provide sound legal guidance and inventive IP solutions to power business—for start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between.
Banner Witcoff’s Shared Values Statement
Banner Witcoff is a law firm dedicated to providing premier intellectual property services to clients of all sizes and across all sectors. We seek to create and enforce, and—in the process—enhance, the value of our clients’ IP assets. The firm believes that its clients, from marquee corporations to start-ups, all deserve creative and strategic guidance in developing and protecting the brand equity of their IP assets.
To achieve the goal of being the firm of choice for innovative companies that understand and seek to maximize the value of their intellectual property, Banner Witcoff commits to values that attract and foster attorneys and staff who share in clients’ quests for market leadership.
To that end, we are committed to:
PROTECTING IP. PROPELLING BUSINESS.
Our tagline is a direct reflection of our brand promise. We use our extensive knowledge of IP law to better our clients’ businesses, and we work in partnership with them, our success becoming theirs.
Leadership
Banner Witcoff is led by our board of directors made up of attorneys representing diverse backgrounds, practice areas and geography. Members of the board are elected by the shareholders and serve three year terms. The firm’s officers, including the president, are elected by the board on an annual basis. Led by the president, our board oversees the firm’s strategic direction. The day-to-day operations of the firm are overseen by the firm’s executive director and senior administrative leaders.
Haley Guiliano started as the patent practice spin-off from Ropes & Gray LLP. The Haley Guiliano team has extensive experience with representing clients of all sizes and across a multitude of industries around the globe in connection with intellectual property matters. All of our attorneys and patent agents have technical and scientific backgrounds, many of whom have graduate degrees. We are used to counseling and representing clients on high stakes complex matters – relying on both our legal analysis expertise and technological know-how.
We tailor our relationship for every one of our clients, recognizing that a cookie-cutter approach to IP representations is not adequate. We make it a point to understand our client’s business, its needs, and its goals. This underpins the work that we perform in the course of our representation.
Haley Guiliano is selective in hiring talented candidates with exceptional legal and technical/scientific backgrounds. We invest in our legal team and support staff. This includes providing each person with opportunities to work on a wide scope of projects in addition to specializing in a respective practice area. Haley Guiliano has developed an environment that fosters professional development and collegiality.
As a client, this means your matters will be handled by a team of Haley Guiliano professionals with a broad range of experience, who are able to learn about your business and your needs. This institutional knowledge will be a continuous mainstay during the course of our representation.