GIBSON LOWRY BURRIS LLP

Gibson Lowry Burris leverages two areas of experience in bringing to bear a tremendous commercial litigation capability: the intense litigation experience associated with high-level intellectual property litigation, and the background associated with complex corporate and finance transactions. This combination serves clients extremely well and provides the Firm with an advantage over adversaries. Moreover, in the course of the Firm’s intellectual property litigation practice, the Firm nearly inevitably grapples with commercial issues. As such, the Firm’s attorneys are well-prepared and competitively disposed to handle clients’ commercial litigation needs.

Copyrights are one of the most overlooked areas of intellectual property protection. Copyright registrations are inexpensive and remarkably powerful. Gibson Lowry Burris has been intimately involved in copyright registration and protection issues with respect to a wide array of copyright material. Many companies have not performed an adequate evaluation of the copyright protection available for their intellectual property, and the Firm stands ready to do so.

Through years of working with entrepreneurial entities, through the “tech boom” and generally, the Firm’s attorneys have tremendous experience in corporation formations and financing. Indeed, having performed large merger-and-acquisition transactions, worked with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, and handled a wide array of corporate and financial transactions, the Firm has a tremendous wealth of experience in this regard.

Gibson Lowry Burris provides all estate planning, probate and asset protection services, including probate of wills, trusts, charitable remainder trusts, family limited partnerships, irrevocable life insurance trusts, lifetime gift planning, college funding options, durable powers of attorney for healthcare, estate and gift tax planning (including income in respect of a decedent) and retirement planning. The firm also has substantial experience in legitimate (non-tax avoidance) asset protection services and structures, both on-shore and off-shore.

Gibson Lowry Burris has one of the deepest and most venerable transactional intellectual property practices in Nevada. With decades of experience in the transactional technology and intellectual property context, the Firm has developed a very substantial library of exemplars and precedents of relevant agreements and documents that serve the needs of clients doing business in the technology and intellectual property arenas. With a drafting style similar to that found in sophisticated financing agreements, the Firm develops transactional agreements in the technology and intellectual property fields that will stand the test of time. Whether a client requires a development agreement, licensing agreement, employment agreement, strategic alliance agreement, or any other intellectual property-based transactional agreement, the Firm likely has already documented the anticipated transaction.

There are a variety of ways that attorneys provide legal services to clients in the patent arena, including patent litigation, patent licensing and patent prosecution. Gibson Lowry Burris is well-experienced in patent litigation at both the district and appellate court levels. The Firm is even more experienced in negotiating and drafting agreements involving patent licensing, development and marketing. The Firm, through its affiliation with Howard & Howard, coordinates the provision of patent prosecution legal services. As such, the Firm’s patent-related practice is a vibrant component of the overall work performed by the Firm.

Our Firm assists clients with commercial lease transactions, real estate acquisitions and sales, as well as all areas of real estate litigation. Because our attorneys have substantial experience with the most modern, sophisticated, and complicated financial issues, our Firm provides world-class service regarding the myriad of financial issues that arise out of the practice of real estate law.

Gibson Lowry Burris provides a full range of tax law services, including complex tax allocations for limited-liability companies, partnerships and leveraged buy-out funds tax-free and taxable mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, financial product development, tax aspects of corporate defensive techniques and recapitalizations, tax aspects of bankruptcy reorganizations and work-outs, international taxation and foreign tax credits, net operating loss planning and executive compensation.

While any litigation is a substantial undertaking, intellectual property litigation requires attorneys that have an intense understanding of the intellectual property subject matter that is also the subject of the litigation. Intellectual property litigation also requires attorneys that understand the special procedures that are applicable to intellectual property matters. Protecting a company’s intellectual property through litigation is much too risky to leave to attorneys lacking an appreciation of the intricacies of technology and intellectual property issues. Gibson Lowry Burris is well-experienced in both the subject matter of intellectual property and the process of protecting that subject matter.

A significant advantage of Gibson Lowry Burris’s trademark practice is the Firm’s ability to provide quick and inexpensive mark clearance service. Unlike most of the Firm’s competitors, the Firm has decades of experience performing mark search clearance in-house.

Before using a trademark or service mark, one should undertake mark search clearance to ensure that no one else has either prior, relevant use or a registration of such mark. Gibson Lowry Burris performs search clearance through the same databases used by outside search services typically employed by competitive law firms, but performs these searches in-house utilizing both seasoned attorneys and intellectual property paralegals. The Firm believes that in order to make the legal determinations regarding infringement that are key to search clearance, attorneys should be brought into every phase of the relevant search. Remarkably, even though attorneys are involved in the search, the Firm is usually able to provide clients with more cost-effective search clearance than an outside search service. Moreover, as the Firm does not need to wait days or weeks for an outside search service to provide results, same-day turnaround is typically the norm.

Gibson Lowry Burris has extensive experience in commercial transactions of every nature, including loan transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, real estate (sales, purchases, development and leases), entertainment-related transactions, private placements, healthcare, leveraged buy-outs, corporate defensive techniques, bankruptcy reorganizations and work-outs, investment funds, recapitalizations and complex financial investments.