Information Technology
The attorneys in the firm's Information Technology Practice Group are closely aligned with those in its Intellectual Property Group. Perkins Thompson recognizes that the high tech field offers both established firms and emerging entrepreneurs with unmatched business opportunities. The firm's clients are active in areas involving integrated chip design processes, software development, e-commerce, licensing and marketing, source code protection, medical device manufacturing and electronics. The firm's extensive retail and banking clients present an ever-changing array of issues involving point of sale equipment, automated teller contracting, protection of innovations, and legislative matters.
Perkins Thompson recognizes that today's technological advances put businesses in a larger geographic, even global, market. The Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, has invested significant resources to establish a world-class fiber optic network allowing information technology and related businesses there to flourish. The firm has taken an active role in assisting several of those entities with their U.S. operations, recognizing that clients entering Maine and New England must increasingly come from a broad geographical background.
