Intellectual Property Registration, Licensing and Litigation

We assist our business clients in protecting their valuable copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. Our services range from copyright and trademark registration practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to working with foreign law firms to register valuable intellectual property rights in major markets abroad, to crafting confidentiality and contractual agreements to protect valuable trade secrets from theft by competitors and employees. We also assist our clients with intellectual property licensing agreements, including international joint ventures involving software or other protected intellectual property. Where necessary, we work in conjunction with foreign law firms to ensure that our clients’ valuable property is protected wherever they wish to do business, to the maximum extent possible. We are accustomed to working within our clients’ budgets, and where several trademarks or copyrights are at issue we are equipped to perform the work cost-effectively in a manner that ensures predictable expenses and risk management for our clients.

Sometimes even the most responsible and far-sighted plans go awry, particularly where an unscrupulous competitor or former employee attempts to usurp our clients’ property. In such situations, we act quickly and decisively to limit the damage, threatening legal action wherever a legitimate claim exists and following through, if necessary, with a complaint and, if appropriate, request for interim relief. We find that a strong initial showing often resolves the matter. However, as with other forms of litigation, we prepare for trial even while attempting to resolve a matter efficiently at its early stages. We have successfully resolved several trademark infringement matters for our clients, and obtained substantial damages in theft of trade secret matters. We also routinely counsel our clients on how to avoid these disputes in the first place, and thereby minimize their risk and expense of litigation.