Colby Nipper’s expertise includes Software and Telecom, Financial Services, Health Technologies, Aerospace and Defense, Electronics and Hardware, and Services for Foreign Clients, each of which is outlined below. For questions, please contact us at [email protected] or our main line, 208.813.3905. We look forward to hearing from you.
Computer technology encompasses much of human advancement over the last twenty years, from software on desktops, to telecommunications for mobile devices, to interconnectivity for the Internet-of-Things (IoT).
Colby Nipper continues our experienced attorneys’ and agents’ decades of protecting computer innovations for multinational clients. We have deep technical know-how, with on-the-ground experience through our team’s prior careers at Hewlett-Packard, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Agilent Technologies, Itron (wireless communications), and Micron Technology. Colby Nipper weds this technical knowledge with years of telecom and software patent application drafting for current and prior clients, including Adobe, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Nest.
Not long ago, bankers tracked accounts with paper ledgers and customers paid for most items in cash. Today, the financial services industry has exploded, providing every link in the financial chain with connectivity to quickly interpret data, make decisions, and chose how to save and spend. From RFID-enabled credit cards chips to personal finance trackers—the financial services industry continues to rapidly innovate.
Colby Nipper protects financial innovations through our deep technology know-how in data management, analysis, cloud and mesh-network based services, and the interfaces used to digest them. Our team has on-the-ground experience through their prior careers at Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Itron, while our attorneys have years of experience drafting patent applications in the financial services industry for current and prior clients, such as Adobe, Microsoft, and PE Systems (card-payment company).
Health technology is one of the truly global technologies, with advances potentially impacting every person in the world. Whether curing disease, helping people live full lives with their health conditions, or increasing people’s quality of life, few technology areas have had (and will continue to have) such a great potential for impacting the world.
Colby Nipper’s attorneys and agents have decades of experience protecting medical innovations for our multinational clients. We have deep technical know-how, with on-the-ground experience through our teams’ prior careers at Hewlett-Packard, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Agilent Technologies, Itron (wireless communications), and Micron Technology. Colby Nipper weds this deep know-how to years of health-technology patent application drafting for current and prior clients, including Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Google.
With nearly three decades of combined industry experience in aerospace and defense, including for Raytheon, and General Dynamics, Colby Nipper truly understands the complex intellectual property environment in which aerospace and defense companies live. Colby Nipper knows the technology and knows the nuances of government relationships and industry competition, including prime vs. subprime contractor dynamics. We are fluent in industry lingo and acronyms. We can help aerospace and defense companies achieve their intellectual property strategy without compromising their many government and industry relationships and we can do it with a style that is familiar to them.
Colby Nipper blends this technical and industry savvy with decades of top-tier patent drafting and prosecution. Having represented multiple top-ten U.S. patent-filing companies, we know how to best protect our clients’ national and international patent assets.
From core-to-edge computing environments, hardware provides the foundation on which modern computing devices are built. To support an ever-increasing number of applications, hardware constantly evolves as a complex system of integrated circuitry and underlying IP that provide the processing power, efficiency, and connectivity necessary for optimal user experience.
At Colby Nipper, our attorneys’ and agents’ extensive experience in hardware design and implementation uniquely position our team to assist you in protecting your hardware-related IP, from individual semiconductor devices to high-density integrations of complex systems for comprehensive on-chip or in-package computing solutions.
Our team’s hardware industry experience includes work with Hewlett-Packard, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Agilent Technologies, Itron (wireless communications), and Micron Technology. Colby Nipper weds this technical knowledge to years of telecom and software patent application drafting for current and prior clients, including Adobe, Google, HP, Microsoft, and Nest.