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for Innovative Companies

Our business is…

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Your Business
Your Success

Your Success is Our Success

Fountainhead attorneys are experts in technology and law. Most of our attorneys hold degrees in science, engineering, or computer science, and many have years of experience in the technology industry. We speak the language of engineers and technologists, and we are leaders in the legal profession. We know the law.

Fountainhead specializes in providing legal advice to the world’s most innovative technology companies. We strive to understand your legal challenges and provide solutions that will increase value.

We listen. We advise. We take your direction. We achieve results.

From protecting intellectual property rights with patents and trademarks to monetizing or enforcing your rights and/or defending you against attacks, Fountainhead attorneys put your best interests and your success first.

Our IP attorneys are the best of the best. We are a premier team of high performers from top Law Schools and BIGLAW firms, carefully selected based on past technical and industry experience, legal acumen, and dedication to excellence. We hold ourselves to the highest standards, and work tirelessly to surpass them.

Our valued clients deserve nothing less than the very best.

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Qualcomm
PAM
Microsoft
Ensenta
SAP
Summit
In my thirty years of experience in Silicon Valley, Fountainhead Law are in a class of their own amongst patent attorneys. They are a team of technically savvy lawyers who focus on quality not quantity.. Their carefully crafted work enabled us to protect our I.P. maintaining our clear technology lead in huge markets, which unquestionably contributed to our $300M+ sale to Qualcomm.
Pat BrockettCEO | Summit Microelectronics (acquired by Qualcomm)
In contrast to most other firms I have worked with, Fountainhead approaches IP law with a broad business perspective to link patent strategy with broader business value. Their unique combination of technical abilities and business acument make them an automatic referral for all my companies and Silicon Valley contacts.
Abid Hussain Venture Investor
When we started Blendid, we needed cost effective patent counsel who could understand our unique combination of a wide range of technologies, including cloud software, mechanical systems, and robotics. Fountainhead attorneys are engineers at heart and are adept at learning and protecting new technologies using creative IP solutions.
Vipin JainCEO | Blendid
Fountainhead attorneys are highly intelligent with even higher integrity. As an expert in one of the biggest Data Warehousing cases of the post-dot-com era, I was impressed with the skill, deftness, and commitment of their attorneys in protecting their client’s rights.
Bill Inmon Father of Data Warehousing | Inmon Data Systems
Fountainhead attorneys are all very accomplished patent attorneys and I would have no hesitation in recommending them.
Girish Basarkar Senior Corporate IP Counsel
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Ensenta, Inc. (acquired by Private Equity fund)

After linking Ensenta’s core technology innovations to its target market space, Fountainhead successfully navigated Ensenta’s patents through the Patent Office to protect their innovations and markets. Over the years, Fountainhead worked with Ensenta to successfully fend off IP attacks from competitors. These efforts culminated in a successful exit when the company was sold to a private equity firm.

Microelectronics

Power Analog Microelectronics (acquired by Diodes Inc.)

Power Analog Microelectronics (PAM) was a multinational analog and mixed signal startup. Fountainhead’s expertise in analog, mixed signal, and global IP strategy helped PAM to build a comprehensive IP program to support their global marketing efforts, leading to a successful acquisition by Diodes Inc.

Microelectronics

Summit Microelectronics (acquired by Qualcomm Inc.)

Summit’s battery charging technology changed the world. When Summit invented a charging algorithm that reduced battery charge time by orders of magnitude (“TurboCharge”), they turned to Fountainhead to protect these vital IP assets. Knowing that companies around the world would stop at nothing to “design around” Summit’s innovations, Fountainhead worked with Summit engineers to craft numerous claim strategies to make their IP as impregnable as possible. Summit was later sold to Qualcomm for hundreds of millions of dollars based in large part on their IP portfolio, portions of which was later asserted against Apple.

Software

SAP is a global leader in business process software. Since the seminal Supreme Court case of Alice Corp. v CLS Bank, which significantly raised the bar for patenting business process software patents, protecting these key IP assets has been no easy task. For almost two decades, Fountainhead Law has worked with SAP to lead the field in patenting business process software patents, having successfully obtained hundreds of valid and granted patents for SAP and other clients in this nuanced and challenging technology space.

Wireless

When wireless titan Qualcomm launched its seminal patent lawsuit against Apple, from over 200,000 patents in their arsenal, they selected just 12 patents deemed capable of withstanding the rigors of Apple’s rigorous patent defenses. Fountainhead Law proudly prosecuted two (2) of the selected 12 Qualcomm patents, contributing to Qualcomm’s favorable settlement with Apple of this epic patent battle.

Software Systems​

When Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, set out to transform Microsoft’s strategic vision, the legal team turned to Fountainhead’s broad range of expertise in software, hardware, AI, and other technologies to protect the new technology areas that Microsoft was venturing into. Fountainhead has helped Microsoft preserve the wealth of innovations along their technology roadmaps from software to AI and spanning both the analog and digital semiconductor worlds.