Intellectual Property
By creating Signa in 1992, Rick Stone, P.E., understands the importance of intellectual property and confidentiality agreements. He and VP George Medley, P.E., help operators and service companies protect their trade secrets through expert witness reports, depositional testimony, and trial appearances.
- We showed theft of trade secrets regarding blowout preventer (BOP) technology.
- We reviewed multilateral drilling processes and conducted application studies with an economist to show a 10-year projected monetary setback suffered by the patent holder.
- We answered technical questions involving the use of well-treatment services. Service records were analyzed to determine the patent had been infringed upon.
