Established in Charleston, SC in 1938, Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms, LLC serves and counsels businesses and professionals throughout South Carolina and beyond. Celebrating 75 years in business under the same banner, the firm's 17 member and associate attorneys focus on intellectual property protections, civil litigation defense, professional malpractice defense, construction law, business law and products liability defense in both state and federal courts. Barnwell Whaley's Intellectual Property Practice Group has more than 80 years of combined experience and provides services and representation in areas of patent and trademark litigation, licensing, inter-parties proceedings, copyright litigation, acquisitions and prosecution (US and foreign to include United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Asia), trade secrets, unfair competition, alternative dispute resolution and mediations.

Barnwell Whaley intellectual property attorneys hold advanced related degrees, have experience as patent examiners, expert witnesses and include one attorney who literally "wrote the book" on the subject of patent law: Lipscomb's Walker on Patents and Lipscomb's Patent Claims. Our team takes client services seriously, working to advance each individual client's business goals in the most effective, cost-efficient manner possible.