Intellectual Property
Our firm's intellectual property practice includes protecting the intellectual property of innovators and brands for creators of all sizes, including individual inventors and entrepreneurs to established institutions. The intellectual property litigation group handles a broad spectrum of intellectual property matters, including disputes regarding names and logos, confidentiality agreements, licensing agreements, intellectual property transfer agreements, unfair competition and enforcement of trademark, patent, copyright and trade secret rights. Our firm's intellectual property prosecution group represents clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office to register trademarks and prosecute patent applications. Our firm also represents clients before the United States Copyright Office to register software code, art, literature and the like.
Intellectual Property Procurement
- Trademark registrations, including word marks, logos and slogans
- Patent applications and prosecution for inventions involving aerospace, agricultural, electrical, artificial intelligence, cryptography, software and other technologies
- Design patent applications and prosecution
- Copyright registrations
- Intellectual property development agreements, including software development agreements
- Intellectual property assignments and licenses
- Invention harvesting
Due Diligence
- Review of intellectual property rights for business mergers and acquisitions
- Software licensing
- Trademark registrability searches
- Patentability opinions
- Trademark and patent infringement opinions
- Freedom to operate opinions
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Intellectual property portfolio reviews
Intellectual Property Disputes
- Online retailer (e.g., Amazon) intellectual property disputes
- Enforcement of trademark, trade dress, patent, copyright and trade secret rights
- Intellectual property ownership disputes
- Name, image, likeness (NIL) disputes
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