Alston & Bird LLP

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Alston & Bird has had an exceptional state and local tax (SALT) practice for over 25 years. Our wide-ranging facility with multistate tax issues, experience representing clients in countless administrative and judicial forums, and strong relationships with state tax professional across the country—as well as the nation’s state tax administrators—allow us to provide unparalleled expertise to our international client base.

From an inventor’s vision to the grant of a U.S. or foreign patent, our attorneys provide clients with a full range of patent services, including patentability assessment; patent application preparation and prosecution, both in the United States and worldwide; appeals; oppositions; patent maintenance; counseling regarding infringement avoidance; and validity and infringement studies and opinions. Our group is comprised of over 110 attorneys, patent agents and specialists registered at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

We have an active foreign patent practice, filing approximately 160 PCT applications and 1,000 patent applications in over 30 countries worldwide in 2012. Several of our attorneys have had extensive involvement in opposition proceedings and hearings before the European Patent Office in Munich. Others have significant experience in managing patent and trademark enforcement proceedings in China.

Attorneys from the firm’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Group successfully represented client Ultrafryer Systems®, a leading producer of commercial deep fryers for restaurant and commercial installations, and its shareholders in the sale of the San Antonio-based company to Standex International Corporation (NYSE: SXI).

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