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.

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 Grealize 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.

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LAW NOTES ARTICLES

BY LEON BASS:

TRADEMARK: Everything You Need to Know about Trademark Protection and Registration" >

COPYRIGHT:  "Why You Can't 'Copyright' Your Song If You Have Already Written It!" >

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