Intellectual Property Management specialty areas include: Counseling, Licensing and Enforcement.
Intellectual Property Counseling: “Intellectual Property” is a broad term that encompasses a wide variety of legal rights in intangible things, such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, rights of attribution, rights of privacy, and other rights. Many people are unaware of the intellectual property they own, or what to do about it to protect it. Our services in the area of intellectual property counseling include:
- Assisting clients with intellectual property audits to determine what kinds of intellectual property they have and what steps they should take to protect it.
- Drafting agreements to protect client intellectual property, such as employee nondisclosure agreements, development agreements, license agreements, work made for hire agreements.
- Representing clients in obtaining registration of copyrights and trademarks with applicable state and federal agencies. Please note: We are not licensed patent attorneys and do not represent clients in obtaining patents. We do help our clients identify effective patent counsel for this purpose.
- Identifying infringement or interference with client intellectual property rights through various methods of searching for conflicting marks.
Intellectual Property Licensing: A license is a grant of part of the intellectual property rights in a work by the owner to another person. We represent clients in drafting license agreements of all types: software license agreements, distribution agreements, development agreements, and others.
Intellectual Property Enforcement: We work with clients to develop strategies for monitoring potential infringers and cost-effective litigation alternatives to enforcing intellectual property rights.