Trademark
Trademarks and services marks are words, phrases and/or designs that identify a source of goods and services. We help clients in filing trademark and services mark application, evaluating trademark searches, prosecuting applications, and enforce their trademarks and service marks.
If you do not protect your intellectual property, then your business either will not have anything unique to sell or may simply lose its competitive edge. If you are a start-up, intellectual property may be the only real asset you have. We help clients:
File U.S. Trademark Applications
License Patents
Guard trade secrets through non-compete and non-circumvention agreements (among other methods)
Enter and resolve disputes involving license agreements
Monitor for Patent and Trademark infringement
License Patents
Guard trade secrets through non-compete and non-circumvention agreements (among other methods)
Enter and resolve disputes involving license agreements
Monitor for Patent and Trademark infringement
Copyright
Copyright law protects original creative works. This excludes purely functional work. As copyright lawyers, we:
Sue (and defend suits)
Get websites pulled down without notice (and get them back up)
Get competitors blacklisted from search engine advertising and organic indexed results (and get clients back into the engines).
Get websites pulled down without notice (and get them back up)
Get competitors blacklisted from search engine advertising and organic indexed results (and get clients back into the engines).
Patent
A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the country where the patent is granted or “importing” the invention into that country.
Generally, the term of a new patent granted in the US is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. U.S. patent grants are effective only within the United States, U.S. territories, and U.S. possessions. Under certain circumstances, patent term extensions or adjustments may be available.
Utility Patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof;
Design Patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture; and
Plant Patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.