Trademarks & Copyrights

We’re not patent or corporate attorneys dabbling in trademark and copyright projects. We’re creative thinkers with creative backgrounds who stand by clients as true allies in protecting, enhancing and trouble-shooting their brand assets to provide you with a competitive edge in the marketplace.

We clear, register, maintain, and protect clients’ trademarks (including trademarks, service marks, and trade dress) and copyrights, and we help them develop and implement creative intellectual property protection and enforcement strategies for maximizing brand value around the globe.

The services we offer clients include:

• Worldwide trademark registrability and availability searches
• Trademark validity and infringement opinions
• Preparing, filing, and prosecuting trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and internationally through a broad network of foreign associates
• Trademark and brand counseling, including portfolio management and watch services
• Conducting trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
• Trademark enforcement and litigation, including infringement, counterfeiting, cybersquatting, and grey-market goods
• Copyright validity and infringement opinions
• Preparing, filing, and prosecuting copyright applications before the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) and internationally
• Copyright enforcement and litigation, including infringement of traditional copyrighted media such as books, artwork, photography, motion pictures, musical compositions, musical recordings, and architectural works, as well as new information technologies, software, proprietary digital media, online and social media content, and big data
• Trademark and copyright settlement agreements and trademark co-existence agreements
• Trademark and copyright license agreements
• Music and synchronization license agreements
• Trademark and copyright assignment agreements
• Domain name acquisition and disputes
• Due diligence for intellectual property transactions

Representative Cases

• Provide ongoing trademark and copyright advice, prosecution, maintenance and enforcement to the estate of a world-famous musician.
• Provide trademark clearance advice to a Fortune 200 manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods.
• Provide international portfolio management services to a global mineral exploration company.
• Provide trademark, domain name, advertising, and sweepstakes advice to one of the world’s largest hair salons.
• Provide copyright clearance advice and infringement analysis to national retail clothing store.
• Manage Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and commercial co-venture (CCV) matters for a beverage brewing system manufacturer.
• Provide advice on copyright and intellectual property matters to television production company with successful series on TNT Network and History Channel.

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