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Worldwide business and commerce continue to grow through rapidly developing means of communicating and sharing documents and data. It becomes increasingly more important for our clients to take effective steps to protect their Intellectual Property. We help our clients protect these assets. In addition, our clients can extract additional revenues by licensing the use of their Intellectual Property, and we assist our clients in developing effective licensing agreements to capture that revenue.
Intellectual Property includes a wide variety of information that is valuable to our clients and provides or clients with a competitive advantage. We work with our clients to develop effective strategies to protect this valuable information, including non disclosure agreements, employment agreements, and counseling regarding effective security measures to protect proprietary information from unauthorized or inadvertent release.
Legal protection for Intellectual Property covers many different kinds of valuable
business assets and various methods to protect those assets, including:
Trademarks and Service Marks are valuable business assets
and represent the integrity, quality, and good name of a business, its products,
and its services. Trademarks and Service Marks include:
There are a variety of ways to protect a Trademark or Service Mark, and we help our clients to employ the methods of protection that best meet their needs. We can register a trademark or service mark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, register with any of the 50 U.S. States and Territories, and advise about proper usage to enhance the legal protections available to Trademarks and Service Marks. Even marks that are not registered may be protected from infringement, and we can help our clients improve that protection.
Trademark/Service Mark Searching and Clearance is an important way that we are proactive and work with our clients in selecting new marks. Searching helps our clients avoid potential problems. Searching also alerts our clients to potential infringements of their marks. We can conduct comprehensive U.S. and worldwide searches for a client before our client selects a new name for a business, product, or service. This prior searching helps avoid choosing a name that already is in use, and it reduces the chance that our clients will be the target of an infringement claim.
Searching is available for:
Searching reduces the potential for future conflict with a name or mark that already is in use, thus reducing the possibility of an infringement claim. It also avoids losing the investment in the marketing of a new name, mark, or logo that has to be changed because of a potential infringement discovered only after introduction of the new marketing.
Copyrights protect many forms of creative works, including:
Copyright law protects against the unauthorized use, display, or copying of a work, and provides serious civil and criminal penalties for such infringement. To enhance the legal protection and improve our clients’ ability to deter infringement, we work with our clients to register the copyrights in their works with the U.S. Copyright Office, and advise them regarding action against potential infringers. For more in-depth information on Intellectual Property, Trademarks or Copyrights, please contact us by telephone or e-mail. We would be happy to discuss any matter of concern with you.