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The Intellectual Property and Technology (IPT) Service Group of Stites & Harbison serves the growing needs of the firm's business clients. The group helps clients identify, protect, acquire and transfer their intellectual property. Its lawyers practice throughout the nation in the areas of IP litigation (including infringement and unfair competition), patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, computer software property rights, privacy, e-commerce and Internet transactions. Seventeen of its IP lawyers are Registered U.S. Patent Attorneys. More than 30 attorneys with the firm, including members of this service group, have technical backgrounds, including electrical, nuclear, mechanical, metallurgical, mining, civil and industrial engineering and all of the natural sciences. The firm's IPT Group has handled a wide variety of sophisticated transactions and difficult litigation matters for some of the nation's leading businesses and institutions. For example, the group's attorneys regularly represent Microsoft in software copyright and trademark infringement litigation. They also represent educational institutions such as Vanderbilt University, University of Mississippi, University of Mississippi Medical Center, the University of Louisville and David Lipscomb University in their trademark and technology transfer matters. One of the group's attorneys argued the only intellectual property case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during its Spring 2000 term—Nelson v. Adams USA, Inc., 120 S.Ct. 1579 (2000). Finally, the firm handled what is believed to be among the largest trademark transfers in history—the assignment and license of the mark, ELECTROLUX, to a Swedish corporation. For more detailed information about our intellectual property practice, click on one of the following: