Seann Lahey

Overview

Seann Lahey’s practice seeks to provide comprehensive and integrated legal services for companies whose products or services are technical in nature. Seann moved to Greenville in 2000, where he counsels clients in all aspects of intellectual property law and looks to develop client-centric strategies for companies to focus their intellectual property and build strong IP portfolios that maximize market value. Seann has extensive experience dealing with international and U.S. patent prosecution. His practice also regularly includes dealing with trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing of intellectual property rights, and rendering legal opinions on validity, infringement and enforceability of intellectual property rights, as well as litigation involving intellectual property rights.

Services

US and International Intellectual Property Protection, IP Evaluation and Portfolio Development, Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Contracts, Licensing, IP Litigation, Trade Secrets, Business Disputes & Resolutions

Industries

Seann Lahey’s practice involves advising startups, middle market companies, multinational corporations, universities, and individuals alike on various intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies. Seann has worked across a range of technologies and industries including automotive, agriculture, biotech, composite technology, construction, education, manufacturing, medical, and others. Seann’s experience at dealing with clients of any size across a range of diverse industries makes him well suited to understand the interaction between the legal services available to a client, a company’s available resources and the client’s business goals.

Awards

• Named, Legal Elite of the Upstate, Greenville Business Magazine (2014 – 2021)
• Named, South Carolina Super Lawyers Top Rated Intellectual Property Attorney, Greenville, SC metro

Experience Highlights

• Considerable experience dealing with U.S. and international patent prosecution across a wide range of technologies including fuel cell technology, HIV replication inhibition, genetically engineered corn plant varieties, medical equipment and accessories for the warfighter, adhesive formulations, electronic display inks, microorganism biomass conversion to fuel, object detection and avoidance systems for vehicles, vehicle mirror and camera systems, vibration dampening systems for large exterior vehicle mirror assemblies, radioactive waste vitrification systems and storage technology, affinity membrane technology, hydroponics and various machinery, among others.
• Regularly securing federal trademark registrations to assist with various brand protection strategies for clients.
• Managing and developing patent and trademark portfolios involving hundreds of US and foreign patents and trademarks for globally operating companies, including audit and triage services to focus portfolios to assist in achieving a client’s business goals.
• Successful reexamination efforts in the United States Patent and Trademark Office invalidating a patent of a client competitor.
• Foreign patent prosecution under the Paris Convention and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) further involving the management and collaboration with a worldwide network of trusted foreign legal service providers, developed over decades of international patent work, resulting in the issuance of patents in numerous countries around the world.