Industries Served

Early Stage / Innovations & Inventions

Early stage businesses have specific legal needs due, generally, to restricted financial resources and time commitments of the founders. Early legal mistakes can haunt a business for years. Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm has years of experience with early-stage companies and startups and provide you with a legal strategy designed to preserve intellectual property rights, avoid disputes (e.g. contractual misunderstandings) and explain and manage legal complexities associated with early stage or start up businesses.

Small Businesses

The strength of any business is innovation. We can help you identify, define and protect your patentable inventions and innovations to secure your competitive advantage that fits your financial needs. We can provide an intellectual property strategy as well as tools to manage them. Making the best decisions requires insight into the experience we use to craft practical legal strategies that match your specific budget and needs.

Business to Business

Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm was established to provide the highest quality legal counseling, focusing on intellectual property, without the organizational constraints and obstacles of a traditional law firm model. By involving us with your legal needs, we will work within your risk tolerance and budget to find the best solution for you.

Information Technology, Electro-Mechanical & Software

Technology and software is the backbone of our economy. From mobile applications to operating platforms, software powers today’s cutting-edge technology. It also presents a unique challenge for IP protection, as the industry is fast-moving and rapidly evolving. For this reason, it is extremely important to involve an attorney to evaluate all aspects of IP Protection for your software development as early in the process as possible.

We have experience with a wide range of technologies in this area including silicone wafers, search engines, mobile apps, educational software, battery management software, encryption, and virtual amusement rides, just to name a few.

Consumer Products

Consumer products have the widest customer base since they are client-facing and are the products that your business produces. Consumer products can embody intellectual property across any and all of the four IP realms: patents for securing the exclusive rights to your inventions; trade secrets for protecting the proprietary information about the processes and techniques that cannot be reverse engineered; copyrights for the creative manner you present your innovation be it written, website, video, or other marketing collateral; and trademarks protecting the branding (e.g., the names, logos, and taglines) that defines your valuable business by its tangible assets.

Our wide range of experience includes solar batteries, non-powered vehicles, boats, paddleboards and kayaks, outdoor sports equipment, firearms components, house improvements, video games, and virtual remote controls, just to name a few.

Engineering & Manufacturing

Engineering is involved in nearly every tangible invention and can come in many forms, from mechanical, electrical, chemical, structural, and more. Kim, Lahey & Killough Law Firm empowers your business to protect the proprietary and innovative products that make your products unique and specific.

Our experience includes fibers, chemical containers, manufacturing methods, printing, color corrections, interior design, chains, drives, just to name a few.

Medical Devices

Improving the lives of people, increasing the quality of medical services, and ensuring more positive patient outcomes is an area of technology that is rapidly evolving. Like many fields of technology, the medical device field requires patents and trade secrets protection. What can make a medical device unique is the time and expense required to bring innovations to market due to testing and regulatory approval. This necessitates extended buying cycles which in turn require extended protections to ensure a competitive advantage.

Innovations in the medical device field includes tourniquets, first responder packs, IV fluid heaters, IV line sanitary holders, and infection detection and prevention. Further, as technology advances, we will be seeing more intersections between medical devices, adaptive manufacturing, and software.

Architecture & Construction

Art that you live in, architecture and construction are marvels of design and engineering with a wealth of intellectual property found in the machines, materials, and methods to build them. IP protections can enforce your rights in the building materials, construction equipment, decking, digital and analog signage, roofs, gutters and downspouts, hand tools, fixtures and lighting systems, plumbing, design and construction, windows, and more.

Vehicles & Transportation

The past decade has seen tremendous innovations within the world of vehicles and transportation, from self-driving cars to hyperloop trains to space shuttle advancements. All of these technologies require protection and involve proprietary processes such as mechanics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, batteries, fuel systems, electronic control systems, and more.