Mechanical &
Consumer Products

CONTACTS

Jason Perilla
Partner, Atlanta
E: j.perilla@pkhip.com

Kenny Knox
Partner, Atlanta
E: k.knox@pkhip.com

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Protecting the products that move ideas into the marketplace.

Innovation is often tangible. From sophisticated mechanical systems and industrial equipment to everyday consumer products, competitive advantage can depend on the engineering, functionality, and design choices that make a product work better. Protecting those innovations requires an intellectual property strategy grounded in both the technology and the commercial realities of bringing products to market.

At Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt, we help companies and inventors protect innovations across mechanical engineering, product design, manufacturing, industrial technologies, and consumer products. Our patent attorneys work with technologies ranging from complex machinery and electromechanical systems to medical devices, sporting goods, household products, tools, fixtures, and other commercially valuable products.

We work closely with engineers, product developers, designers, founders, and in-house legal teams to identify protectable features and develop patent strategies around them. Depending on the product, those features may involve mechanical structures, mechanisms, components and assemblies, materials, manufacturing processes, control systems, ergonomics, or ornamental design. Our experience includes both utility patents and design patents, allowing us to consider multiple forms of protection for innovative products.

Engineering understanding. Practical patent strategy.

Strong mechanical and consumer product patents begin with understanding how a product works, how it is constructed, and what makes it different. Seemingly small changes in geometry, component relationships, materials, manufacturing methods, or mechanical operation can represent important innovations—and can require careful consideration when preparing patent claims.

Our attorneys engage directly with technical and product teams to understand those distinctions and translate them into effective patent applications. We assist clients with innovations involving mechanical systems, electromechanical devices, manufacturing equipment, industrial machinery, robotics, automotive technologies, medical and laboratory devices, tools, appliances, sporting equipment, packaging, fixtures, and consumer products.

That technical understanding allows us to develop patent applications and prosecution strategies around the commercially important aspects of a product while anticipating issues involving prior art, novelty, obviousness, claim scope, enablement, written description, inventorship, and design-around considerations.

Our Clients.

We represent companies and innovators across the product lifecycle, from entrepreneurs, inventors, and emerging companies developing their first products to established manufacturers and global businesses managing substantial patent portfolios. Our clients operate across consumer, industrial, manufacturing, medical, automotive, and other product-driven markets.

Whether protecting a new mechanical invention, developing a coordinated utility and design patent portfolio, expanding protection around successive product generations, or evaluating intellectual property in a competitive market, we work closely with technical and business teams to develop patent strategies aligned with the product, competitive landscape, and broader business objectives.

Our Services in Mechanical & Consumer Products

  • The litigation practice group at Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt represents clients in complex patent, trademark, unfair competition, false advertising, copyright, trade secret and other intellectual property matters in federal and state courts and tribunals across the country. Our attorneys regularly appear in the nation’s top patent trial courts, including the Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Texas, Northern District of Georgia, Central District of California, Northern District of California, District of Delaware, and Southern District of New York. We also maintain an active appellate practice, most notably in cases at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has exclusive appellate jurisdiction of federal patent cases.

    In addition to being skilled advocates, nearly all of our attorneys have technical backgrounds in science or engineering. This combination allows us to simplify complex technical and legal concepts for judges and juries, so we can achieve remarkable results for our clients.

  • The trademark attorneys at Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt have extensive experience protecting the names, logos, slogans, and other branding that makes their products and services distinguishable from those of their competitors. Our attorneys are experienced at clearing potential trademarks for use, obtaining trademark registrations, and developing cohesive brand protection strategies for AI and software companies. In addition to obtaining federal and state trademark registrations, our attorneys have substantial experience in securing foreign trademark protection overseas.

  • The registered patent attorneys at Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt are highly skilled in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a wide range of technologies. All our patent attorneys have technical backgrounds in science and engineering, which they have used to secure thousands of patents for inventions in fields such as computing, software, communications, networking, power transmission, semiconductors, quantum devices, and consumer products. We have extensive experience in patenting technologies relating to electronic commerce, electronic device security, FinTech, virtualization, computing environment architecture, data storage, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, semiconductor devices, semiconductor device packaging, connectors, medical devices, robotics, and others.

    We recognize there is no one approach for patent strategy and portfolio development. We evaluate each case individually, and we tailor our strategies based on the objectives of our client, the field of technology, the state of the art, the desired domestic or international reach for patent rights, and many other factors. In addition to having extensive experience in representing clients domestically at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), we also represent clients in obtaining patent protection in foreign jurisdictions

  • For products where appearance and visual design contribute to commercial value, design patents can provide an important complement to utility patent and trademark protection. Perilla Knox & Hildebrandt prepares and prosecutes design patent applications covering the ornamental features of consumer products, mechanical devices, components, packaging, graphical user interfaces, and other product designs. We work closely with clients and designers to identify the aspects of a design that warrant protection and to develop drawings and claiming strategies that preserve meaningful scope while accounting for alternative embodiments and potential design-arounds. From initial design review and application preparation through USPTO examination, prosecution, continuation practice, and international design protection, we help clients build design patent portfolios that protect the distinctive visual features of their products.