Every engagement starts with budget and deliverables. We define both clearly before any work begins — no surprises on scope, no invoices that catch you off guard three months in.

From there we embed with your engineering team. We educate, we train, and we build the process by which your engineers identify, disclose, and contribute to your company's IP. We review employment, contractor, and NDA agreements to make sure no inventor inadvertently compromises the company's position. We establish the review and approval infrastructure — whether that's a single person or a committee — and train them to evaluate and rank inventions according to your strategy and budget.

We also understand that good engineers need to feel the program is working for them, not just the company. Communication, recognition, and incentive design are part of what we build — because a patent program that loses engineer participation loses its engine.

See our full Services page for a complete description of our process.

We manage the full preparation and prosecution process before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, coordinating with foreign counsel where needed. Our attorneys and agents handle office actions, examiner interviews, amendments, and appeals with an emphasis on efficient, business-oriented outcomes.

But prosecution is only part of the work. We keep clients informed at every step — with regular portfolio status reports, strategic conversations about continuation opportunities, and ongoing analysis of how to maximize portfolio value while minimizing cost. Where multiple related inventions share a common specification, we structure filings to amortize costs across them — more patents, less spend per patent.

We monitor dockets, maintenance deadlines, and portfolio health — but maintenance at HLG is an active process, not a passive one. We regularly review allowed patents for continuation opportunities, advise on pruning and strategic renewals, and keep your portfolio aligned with where your products and roadmap are actually going.

For patents filed across multiple countries, we mandate single-point prosecution — the same attorney who wrote and prosecuted the US application manages it in every jurisdiction. This ensures that claim scope and prosecution arguments remain consistent across all family members, protecting the integrity of the portfolio across borders.

We handle all post-issuance matters — domestic and foreign docketing, maintenance fees, annuity payments, and regular portfolio reporting on whatever cadence works for your team: monthly, quarterly, or annual.

What sets us apart is continuity. Every patent attorney ever hired by Huffman Law Group is still here. The attorney who drafted your patent handles its post-issuance analysis, responds to maintenance decisions, and is available for pre-litigation review years later. No handoffs. No institutional memory lost to turnover. When your portfolio matters most — in licensing discussions or acquisition due diligence — the person who knows it best is still at the table.

Every matter ever handled by HLG lives in our secure, paperless online repository — immediately accessible, fully indexed, and never lost. Thirty years of work, one search away.