NEW TECHNOLOGIES PRACTICE
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C. offers a comprehensive new technologies practice. Our new technologies practice developed out of the synergies between the firm's various practice groups which previously provided legal services with respect to new technologies on a more individualized basis.
Our new technologies group practice attorneys have long been immersed in issues relating to the development and deployment of new technologies. In the telecommunications field, these attorneys have represented clients seeking FCC approval (type acceptance, certification, registration or notification) of equipment and devices using or emitting radio frequencies. They have also represented clients investing in, deploying and seeking authority to operate communications systems and equipment employing emerging technologies, such as fiber optic cable, wireless digital data transmission, Asynchronous Transfer Mode ("ATM") switching, Packet Switching, infrared and laser transmissions.
We have also represented the initial entrants into the domestic cellular telephone and fiber optic transmission markets; and addressed issues arising from new technology entry into established markets. This market entry representation includes antitrust and telecom act litigation against established carriers and participation in anticompetitive proceedings before regulatory bodies.
In addition, we advise clients on transaction and litigation matters, patents, trademarks and copyrights and licensing of intellectual property.
We also represent clients in international technology licensing transactions. The firm's attorneys have represented international telecommunications equipment manufacturers in connection with FCC proceedings examining the implications of conversion of analog wireless services to digital wireless technology, and advised a leading computer manufacturer of the evolving technological, competitive and regulatory landscape of the telecommunications industry and on the implications for the computer industry of development of digital high definition television ("HDTV").
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C.'s new technologies practice attorneys have also been actively involved in regulatory proceedings and have played a principal role in projects relating to integrated services digital technologies, fiber optic telecommunications, internet projects, and in other non-telecommunication industries. We have been involved in formation of a an entity to work with the federal government in infrastructure development and application projects, and have delivered lectures to federal and state officials, attorneys and other professionals on newly appearing technologies. Our attorneys participated in developing and presenting proposals for new applications of emerging technologies and in copyright and software licensing.
As Firm clients have acquired technology companies and invested in new technologies for domestic and international deployment, we have addressed international protection of intellectual property rights, technology export issues and matters relating to foreign investment in the United States.
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C.'s new technologies attorneys also represent clients providing domain server with history and related internet services.
Our litigation attorneys have represented clients in litigation involving new technologies, including trade secret, trade mark, software rights, copyright (including software copyright), government contract and anti-trust and Telecommunications Act litigation.
We have represented companies acquiring total or partial ownership of new technologies such as "softswitch" software in the telecommunications area, wireless data telemetry and data collection devices, optical-electrical telecommunications infrastructure, and chemical compositions that remove environmental hazards from water and air.
Our attorneys represented a technology company which developed telecommunications software that provides a software network providing real time access to customer networks operating with asynchronized transfer mode (ATM) switches. We advised this company in its successful offering of $125,000,000 in a private placement of securities. We also represented the company in the formation of a joint venture with a leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer for the further development and distribution of the ATM software, and now represent its successor in interest.
We represented two companies, each possessing telecommunications technology, in a reverse acquisition of a publicly owned shell corporation. The acquired company, since renamed, is in the process of becoming a leading data telemetry provider in the United States. Subsequent to the reverse acquisition, we represented the acquired company in a private placement of its securities and continue to represent the company in corporate, securities, regulatory and litigation matters.
