MBHB Launches Quantum and Semiconductor IP Practice

Insider Brief

• McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB) has launched a Quantum, Optics, and Semiconductors Practice Group to advise companies and research institutions on intellectual property protection.
• Led by partners Andrew Velzen and Aaron Gin, the group will provide patent preparation and prosecution, portfolio management, licensing and litigation services, drawing on the team’s technical backgrounds in fields including electromagnetics, optics and nanotechnology.
• The practice will serve startups, universities, research institutions, government contractors and large companies as quantum, optics and semiconductor research expands across the United States.

PRESS RELEASE — Full-service intellectual property law firm McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB) has launched a Quantum, Optics, and Semiconductors Practice Group. The team of attorneys and patent agents, which includes former nanotechnology, electromagnetics, and optics researchers, will help innovators secure patents, assemble patent portfolios, and enforce their intellectual property rights.

“Federal funding is accelerating quantum research, and AI is driving rapid innovation in optics and semiconductors,” said MBHB Partner Andrew Velzen, Co-Chair of the Quantum, Optics, and Semiconductors Practice Group. “Inventors in these highly competitive industries need to proactively protect their intellectual property with technically precise patent portfolios that stand up to scrutiny. The IP decisions these organizations make today will have a long-lasting impact on their business success.”