Neil J. Friedrich favors a multifaceted strategy for IP protection for clients. He relies on a combination of patents, design registrations, trademarks, and copyrights to protect inventive and aesthetic features of clients’ most important products and brands. Neil’s technical background is in biomaterials and medical device design. He assists clients in securing comprehensive IP protection for medical inventions and products in the form of patents, design registrations, trademarks, and copyrights both in the United States and abroad.

Neil’s patent practice involves drafting and prosecuting domestic, international, and PCT patent applications directed to material, mechanical, and electrical features of medical devices, including surgical tools, drug delivery devices, cardiac monitoring and therapeutic systems, electromechanical sensors, and medical implants. Neil also assists clients in creating and managing domestic and foreign trademark portfolios to protect important marks and brands. Neil also regularly conducts patentability, freedom-to-operate, and landscape patent searches, as well as design and trademark clearance searches. Through detailed analysis of patent and clearance search results, Neil provides strategic counseling for clients considering issues including patent and trademark validity, enforceability, and non-infringement.

Neil is an active member of the Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law and Allegheny County Bar Associations. He strives to stay up to date on the most recent developments in intellectual property law by attending local meetings, lectures, and events, as well as through frequent collaboration with a network of intellectual property attorneys in major jurisdictions around the world.