Trusted Intellectual Property Lawyers
Your intellectual property (or “IP”) strategy can harness your most valuable information and intangible assets including your name, your brand, your designs, your content, your services, and your products — what makes your business stand apart in a competitive world. We can help you evaluate and build your IP portfolio, then secure it, monetize it, and protect it.
IP encompasses multiple areas of law and different types of information, materials, and rights.
Our Intellectual Property services include:
- Evaluations and Audits of Intellectual Property Assets
- Trademark Clearance Searches and Strategies
- Trademark Applications and Registrations
- Federal Trademarks
- State Trademarks and Business Names
- Office Action Responses
- Maintenance and Renewals
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) Oppositions, Cancellations and Disputes
- Copyright Clearance and Registration
- Design & Service Contracts
- Independent Contractor Agreements
- Master Service Agreements
- Materials Releases
- Software License Agreements
- Terms and Conditions of Use
- Privacy Policies
- Endorsement and Appearance Agreements
- Film, Video, Music, and Other Media Production, Licensing, and Distribution Contracts
- Non-disclosure and Confidentiality Agreements (“NDAs”)
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Notice & Takedown Prosecution and Defense
- Interstate or Intrastate IP Licensing, Assignments, and Transfers
- Creative Rights Enforcement or Defense in Infringement Disputes
- Cease and Desist Letters
Trademark
Trademarks include names, signs, logos, designs, phrases, slogans, expressions, and sometimes even colors, sounds, or smells that identify or distinguish one business compared to others. Trademark protection is fundamental in securing your “brand.”
Copyright
Copyright covers original works of creative authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. This includes literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, designs, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. Depending upon the type of work, “moral rights” (such as the right of attribution) may be implicated as well.
Trade Secret
Trade secret laws can vary somewhat between states, but generally trade secrets cover information, including drawings, cost data, customer lists, formulas, recipes, patterns, compilations, programs, devices, methods, techniques or processes that derive economic value from not being generally known and are the subject of efforts that are “reasonable under the circumstances” to maintain secrecy.
Privacy
Depending upon where you live or operate, there is a special patchwork of laws and regulations that protect and regulate personal information. If you are handling or giving out personal or potentially sensitive information, you may be implicating privacy laws.
Publicity
Publicity rights address the commercial use of an individual’s face, name, image, or likeness. These rights vary state-to-state. Marilyn Monroe, for example, lived in multiple states which created complex questions about her publicity rights.
