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ECKERT SEAMANS CHERIN & MELLOTT, LLC www.eckertseamans.com 302-574-7400
Attorneys at Eckert Seamans have experience assisting clients with patents in chemical, electrical, mechanical, medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, computer and metallurgical fields.
INCNOW
www.incnow.com 800-759-2248
Run by two licensed Delaware attorneys, IncNow has helped entrepreneurs, startups, law firms, incubators and businesses get started for more than 40 years.
IP GROUP
www.ipgroupplc.com
302-752-1055
An IP commercialization company focused on evolving the best ideas, mainly from partner universities, into innovative businesses.
MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP
www.mccarter.com 302-984-6300
McCarter & English attorneys help clients prepare IP applications and portfolios, preserve corporate brands, and protect software patents and trade secrets.
MORRIS, NICHOLS, ARSHT & TUNNELL LLP www.mnat.com 302-658-9200
The firm’s IP Litigation
Group specializes in complex disputes involving patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition and antitrust issues.
POTTER ANDERSON CORROON LLP
www.potteranderson.com 302-984-6000 defirm@potteranderson.com The oldest law firm in Delaware, and one of
the largest. Specializing in corporate litigation,
corporate counseling, M&A, IP, employment and bankruptcy.
RICHARDS LAYTON & FINGER
www.rlf.com
302-651-7700
In 2017 alone, Delaware’s largest law firm acted
as Delaware counsel on 57 M&A transactions valued at $100 million
or more. IP and other corporate litigation is also a specialty.
SAUL EWING ARNSTEIN & LEHR LLP
www.saul.com 302-421-6800
Saul Ewing attorneys counsel clients on protecting and managing their IP assets, conduct post-grant procedures, and perform due diligence, infringement and invalidity studies. They also help companies analyze their patent portfolios, evaluate competitive products and develop design-around alternatives.
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIPS www.oeip.udel.edu 302-831-7140
The office’s mission is to guide entrepreneurs from ideas to the marketplace, facilitating patent applications and other steps in setting up
a business.
YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, LLP www.youngconaway.com 302-571-6600 jlofink@ycst.com
Young Conaway has helped shape legislative and case law in Delaware for half a century. In addition to appearing before Delaware’s state and federal courts,
its attorneys actively participate in issues before the Delaware legislature.
DELAWARE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE:
Setting the First State on a Path to Growth
www.dbrt.org
The Delaware Business Roundtable is a coalition of approximately 60 CEOs and other leaders representing the state’s largest businesses.
Members include executives from many Delaware companies including AAA Mid-Atlantic, Bayhealth, Capital One 360, Delmarva, Verizon, WSFS, JPMorgan Chase, Christiana Care and DuPont. Collectively, the member businesses employ more than 75,000 people in Delaware.
“We’re engaged in putting Delaware back on a path to economic growth,” says Executive Director Bob Perkins. Just over a year ago, the Roundtable developed a Growth Agenda (dbrt.org/delaware-growth-agenda) that outlines three overarching goals for the state:
1. Create and nurture an entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem
2. Create a new approach to economic development via a public-private partnership
3. Improve the state’s overall business climate.
The agenda resulted from a study — commissioned by the Roundtable and published in 2015 — which showed that the state faces significant structural budget challenges. “The state- finances study and working to bring the growth agenda to life are among the Roundtable’s most important accomplishments over the past several years,” says Perkins.
In his first executive order, issued Jan. 18, 2017, Delaware Gov. John Carney called for the creation of a working group that would study the establishment of a public-private partnership, as called for in the Roundtable’s Growth Agenda. Working closely with the Carney administration, the Delaware General Assembly passed legislation that created the Delaware Prosperity Partnership (see profile, p. 136), a new public-private partnership approach to economic development that replaces the Delaware Economic Development Office.
“We in the business community have raised over $1.3 million to work collaboratively with the state in funding this new organization that will drive economic development and make Delaware more competitive,” says Perkins.
The Roundtable also worked in concert with the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce (see profile, p. 141) to support the modernization of the Coastal Zone Act, which will pave the way for the opportunity for more jobs in Delaware. In addition to advocating for a regulatory environment conducive to innovation, the Roundtable is closely involved with First State Innovation (see profile, p. 142) in fostering the next generation of Delaware entrepreneurs. ID
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