Headquartered in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma LLP is a world-renowned intellectual property specialty law firm providing top quality services and value in the fields of patent preparation and negotiation, patent risk assessment and pre-litigation counseling, portfolio development and management, trademark clearance and procurement, copyright registration and counseling, licensing, technology transactions, privacy law, open source analysis, and others. With a history that stretches back to the mid-1990s, the firm has amongst the most experienced teams and one of the largest groups of software technology patent professionals in the world. Its staff resources are substantial, enabling it to serve clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies with portfolios of any size.Offering a collegial office environment in a first-class urban location, Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma LLP is staffed by professionals committed to providing high-quality work for a diverse and challenging client base. The firm is committed to promoting diversity in its team, and encourages its clients to develop similar practices. It offers expertise in invention assessment and ranking, drafting and filing patent applications worldwide, demand assessment and response counseling, trademark clearance, copyright registration, privacy policies, and open source risk counseling and agreements.