Mechanical Engineering + Manufacturing

Fitch Even offers multidisciplinary skills and real-life experience to give mechanical engineering and manufacturing clients the practical guidance they need to protect, commercialize, and monetize their innovations.

Our patenting work spans a wide variety of technologies, including:

When our clients’ technologies dovetail with electronics, AI, chemistry, and other disciplines, our wide-ranging technical expertise is crucial in helping clients demonstrate the uniqueness of critical improvements over earlier devices.

Your Life Cycle Partner

Our clients, many of whom have international operations, rely on our guidance throughout the life cycle of their products both in the U.S. and abroad. We understand the level of detail that mechanical patents require, have the global focus clients need, and offer the technological and counseling diversity that enables us to provide assistance at every stage of product development and commercial implementation.

Examples of our work include the following:

• For over four decades, Fitch Even has successfully obtained both U.S. and foreign patents on behalf of a global leader in conveyor belt splicing systems and related products for nearly all their new product developments, helping it maintain its primacy in the industry.
• We represented a small U.S.-based manufacturer of auto restraint systems when it was acquired by one of the largest auto suppliers of auto safety systems in Japan. We continue to represent the U.S. division of the Japanese company, prosecuting its patent work originating in Japan and Germany, as well as preparing patent opinions and managing litigation work.
• For over 100 years, Fitch Even has helped a leading food and beverage company protect innovations relating to industry-leading high-speed packaging equipment and other complex mechanical systems.
• We have worked with PhD mechanical engineers at a major automobile manufacturer to help secure patent protection for sophisticated innovations relating to variable-stroke internal combustion engines.
• Fitch Even has assisted a major machine tool manufacturer in maintaining a patent portfolio relating to innovative cutting tool geometry.
• We help a world leader in shipping containers to maintain an international patent portfolio covering inventions relating to manufacture and handling of their products.
• Our experience in the defense industry includes patent work relating to railgun barrel concepts designed to withstand forces associated with electromagnetic propulsion of projectiles at speeds far exceeding those associated with conventional weapons.

Fitch Even’s expertise goes beyond patent prosecution, to help monetize mechanical and manufacturing inventions:

• When one of our clients, a manufacturer of defibrillators, was in negotiations to be purchased by a large national medical device company, our persuasive non-infringement and invalidity opinions regarding third-party patents were leveraged to convince the purchaser to proceed with the deal at the original purchase price.

From Concept to Real-World Application

With diverse and extensive mechanical engineering experience, we can quickly analyze complex systems and grasp the real-world significance of our clients’ technical advances. Our work spans numerous industries, including: