Practice Areas

Specifically, Kashfian & Kashfian, LLP specializes in prosecution of patent applications in computer science related inventions. They include inventions in chip design, chip manufacturing processes, computer architecture and network architecture. Furthermore, we specialize in drafting both software and hardware licensing agreements. Developed as a boutique practice, we are able to focus entirely on our client’s needs. Below are only highlights of some of the areas of practice within our division.

Kashfian & Kashfian, LLP can patent your innovation with regard to Semiconductor designs, particularly in the design of processor and memory chips. Also we can patent your innovation in the semiconductor manufacturing process of processor chips, memory chips and circuit boards. In addition, we can patent your innovation in the network design and architecture, including router hardware and software.

We also provide a myriad of licensing services. We are experienced in drafting software and hardware related licensing agreements, as well as effective royalty negotiations and pay out structures.

Our firm can also help you get the most out of e-discovery, including compliance with the Federal e-discovery rules and the newly-enacted California e-discovery rules.

It is important to note that a patent attorney can’t tell you if you have a good idea or not. Of course the end goal for all inventions is to see an idea become a reality. To do this an idea must be unique, feasible and have a targeted market. Once these prerequisites are met, then a patent attorney can help with the most important stage in any new invention, legally protecting it.

Developed as boutique practice, our International Law Division is comprised of multi-talented, multi-lingual and multi-jurisdictional experts, experienced to advise our clients on an array of global disputes and topics, both substantively and procedurally, and before international and domestic courts.

Our firm counsels and advocates on behalf of clients before tribunals such as the: International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the United Nations, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and other impromptu arbitral tribunals which are able to rule upon its own jurisdiction (often referred to as the doctrine of “Kompetenz-Kompetenz.”)

Our practice encompasses matters involving sovereign entities, including state-owned entities, and international organizations. We counsel our clients in both the private and public sectors on issues relating to public international law and private international law (or conflict of laws), as well as commercial trade law. Our experience involves issues of jurisdiction, foreign direct investment/expropriation, immunity, enforcement, state accountability, guarantees under international investment law, environmental law, maritime, immigration, and protection of human rights.

Our International Law Division prides itself on its focus and ability to successfully engage in complex International Negotiations, Arbitrations and Mediations in order to resolve conflicts and potential conflicts between and among individuals, corporate or business entities, and governmental or non-profit entities. Our primary goal with alternative dispute resolution, among other advantages, is to garner greater flexibility, costs below those of traditional litigation, and speedy resolution of disputes.

As the industrial, economic and political impacts of Globalization becomes more prevalent, international trade and commerce is more complex and difficult for the average person engaged in such practice. Experience and knowledge of proper trade regulations and practices, are the tools any one person needs when engaging in this type of profession. At Kashfian & Kashfian LLP we provide this support, so our clients can work in the global arena with confidence and ease. We advise private businesses, as well as governmental entities, on both transactions and investments, along with the structuring of contractual and treaty regimes.

An effective trial attorney does not necessarily make an effective appellate attorney. One reason for the foregoing proposition is the difference between an attorney’s audience at trial and on appeal. At trial, the attorney must argue and persuade a jury or a single judge. These people are often referred to as the trier of fact. The role of the trier of fact, as the name indicates, is to determine the facts of the case: whose story is true and whose story is false. As such, the trial attorney must build a convincing story, demonstrate its strength, and point out factual flaws and weaknesses in the other side’s story. The trial attorney must do this so that the trier of fact will believe his story. The trial attorney, accordingly, must be one who is able to stress the credibility and soundness of the evidence upon which his story rests.

However, on appeal, the attorney is no longer presenting his case before the trier of fact; instead, the attorney is presenting his case before a panel of distinguished justices, anywhere from three to nine. What is more, the inquiry of the court shifts from questions of fact to questions of law. In fact, all determinations of fact are over. The appellate court will presume the story of the prevailing side to be true. This is so, no matter how convincing and pleasing the story of the losing side may seem.

As such, an appellate lawyer must make several legal argues. The appellate attorney must convince the appellate court: that the trial court interpreted or applied the law incorrectly; that, even if the prevailing side’s story is true, that story is not a legally cognizable claim; or that, in the interest of justice, the appellate court must change or modify the law. Accordingly, the appellate attorney, unlike the trial attorney, must be one who is able to stress the law, capture its nuances, and uses the other side’s story to his own advantage.

Therefore, appellate law and practice requires more than a rehashing of arguments made at trial. At Kashfian & Kashfian, LLP we understand the differences that an effective appellate attorney is required to have. We are passionate and dedicated to presenting your case before any appellate court in California, District of Columbia or in the Federal system.