INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
One of the most important, yet often overlooked factors toward success in many businesses is the protection of intellectual property. From a company logo or a product name to a slogan or trade secret we provide valuable information and services regarding the protection, use, and registration of your copyrights, trademarks, service marks, and other intellectual property.

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There are two main types of Intellectual Property that we work with:

Other types that we work with include:  Trade Secrets, rights of Privacy and Publicity, and the protection of information and ideas via non-disclosure agreements.  Examples of property that we can protect are:

    People often get confused on the differences between a copyright and a trademark.  Simply put:

          A trademark is any "mark"  (logo, words, slogans etc) used in commerce, to identify the source of goods or services (it would be called a "Service Mark" if it was used for services. 

Examples of trademarks are:

Examples of things that can be copyrighted are:

PROTECTING YOUR PROPERTY
Many business of all types -- from retail business to bands to web-based businesses to construction companies -- often overlook the essential steps in protecting one of, if not their most important asset: their business name, brand names, and logos.

Searches: The first step in protecting your marks is to make sure you have the right to use it in the first place. We have seen numerous cases where businesses that have been around for many years have been challenged on their right to use their own business name. This can be extremely costly, causing a business at best expend resources to defend itself (trademark lawsuits often exceed $150,000), and at worst, can cause a business to lose their name, logo, trademark, and domain name altogether.

As experienced trademark counsel, we remove any substantial risk of this happening by analyzing your marks and determining the relative strength of the mark from a legal perspective and by further analyzing search results from proprietary and common law databases. Our innovative trademark search system combined with our use of the best databases insures that you will have the very best search results and analysis available.

Registration: Once you have the "all clear", we can assist to further protect your rights by counseling you on the best way to register your intellectual property by advising you on what classes to register and the best way to register different marks. We can then file applications, respond to office actions, and follow up to ensure that marks are properly registered.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGREEMENTS
You own it—now what? If you own a work, such as a song or piece of artwork, how do you protect it and how do you exploit it? Let us counsel you on the different types of agreements that you might encounter; for example, license agreements, sales and transfer of rights agreements, co-existence agreements, publishing agreements, recording agreements, etc.

TRADE SECRETS & IP PROTECTION EMPLOYEES & CONTRACTORS
Trade secrets require special counsel because of specific laws designed to protect only in very specific situations and their general overall lack of legal protection without proactive measures. It is important to have very specific, signed, non-compete, non-disclosure, and general trade secret agreements with employees and sub contractors if you wish for your intellectual property and trade secrets to be properly protected.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION
We firmly subscribe to the philosophy that litigation is a last resort. We believe that lawsuits rarely have a winner and are almost never beneficial to either side in the end, no matter what the outcome. However, we also realize that sometimes lawsuits are unavoidable, whether you are being sued or doing the suing. We have significant experience in IP litigation and can assist you defending your rights. If you feel that you may have an issue, please contact us as early as possible. The earlier we speak with you, the better we can protect your rights, so do not hesitate to contact us as soon as you know that there is even a small potential for a problem.

EXPERT WITNESS/LITIGATION SUPPORT
If you are already involved in a lawsuit or are an attorney representing someone in a trademark or copyright lawsuit, we can assist as an expert witness or by providing consulting with respect to IP law or your case. We have experience being a trademark expert witness and copyright expert witness as well as are vast experience as litigators on intellectual property cases.

MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION
If you are involved in a lawsuit or are an attorney representing someone in a trademark or copyright lawsuit, why not take a crack at settling?  We can help.  As an experienced IP attorney that has worked with over 1200 clients in both IP transactions and IP litigation matters, we can be an unbiased third party that can help get to the bottom of the dispute and assist in working out a common-sense compromise that both parties can live with.  In the event that mediation is an option or has failed, we can work as a neutral private judge, hear the case and make the call.  In either case, both sides can save significant litigation fees and expenses and can get to a final resolution much faster, without the threat of lawsuits and appeals dragging on for years.

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The first step to protecting your intellectual property is the search.

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