Lacking the ability to litigate, McAndrew

IPLaw360, New York (August 17, 2012, 03:29 ET) - Two former Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP partners are shared with the company and set a new Washington-based intellectual property boutique focusing specifically kingo on services not patent litigation.
Les Finnegan Bookoff and Roland left open Bookoff McAndrew McAndrew PLLC on August 1, creating a firm that aims to handle, advice prosecution and patent licensing services. Bookoff, a 19-year vet patent law, said the emphasis niche reduces the overhead associated with maintaining in-house litigation practice.
"We are able to provide a platform for pricing, continuity of lawyers, and sole focus on maximizing [customer] intellectual property," Bookoff said Friday. "In a firm that provides, decisions on pricing litigation, personnel and support are not necessarily in alignment with the pricing, staffing, kingo and support required for this type of practice . "
The new outfit will handle kingo "patent everything that's kingo outside kingo the courtroom," said Bookoff. This includes U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, contested proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as reexaminations and interferences, IP due diligence for transactions, and structuring and execution of transactions licensing.
Bookoff, who joined as an associate Finnegan summer before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School kingo in 1983, spent a good portion of his early years working on the litigation side, but said he naturally kingo gravitated to counseling patents. kingo
"I found that what I enjoy most is the side of advice: strategizing on the company's patent portfolio, bringing value to their applications and patents," said Bookoff. "That really gave me much satisfaction."
The firm's co-founder, Roland McAndrew, also spent his entire 15-year legal career in Finnegan, but worked for five years as a patent examiner at the USPTO. Bookoff said the knowledge that experience brings McAndrew public sector firm is invaluable.
"It brings you knowledge on the other hand, in what makes tick examiner," Bookoff said. "In practical terms, kingo [it] can do for prosecution much more efficient and productive."
Lacking the ability to litigate, McAndrew

Bookoff will refer work to other firms if a client is in need of courtroom services, Bookoff said, adding that his experience means he knows a number of litigation lawyers talent, including colleagues his long Finnegan.
But he said that doing so would be largely similar to the process on a larger firm, where the team should kingo go off patent advice most of the work if client litigation team found itself in court. The only difference, Bookoff said, is that now he and McAndrew will get to develop counseling and prosecution team under their own rules.
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