Intellectual Property Center represents corporate clients and individuals throughout a full spectrum of intellectual property needs including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, domain names, trade secrets, licensing, unfair competition and related issues. We prepare and file patent, trademark and copyright applications and represent parties in patent, trademark and copyright infringement litigation. We counsel clients concerning licensing agreements and litigate for those clients when licensing agreements are violated. Our services include:
- Protecting inventions, creative and literary works, designs, trademarks, service marks and other intellectual property rights in the United States and foreign countries.
- Intellectual property litigation in federal courts throughout the United States involving claims of patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.
- Trade secret claims involving confidential and proprietary information and anti-competitive practices, corporate theft and espionage, unfair and deceptive trade practices and similar cases in state and federal court.
- Digital Millenium Copyright Act circumvention, takedown, reverse takedown and anti-cybersquatting claims in federal court and domain name dispute proceedings under the UDRP.
- Consulting and opinions on copyrights concerning derivative and collective works, protection of unpublished works, and “works made for hire.”
- Counseling and opinions on patents including patent clearance searches, freedom to operate opinions, and patentability opinions.
- Patent re-examination and interference proceedings.
- Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings including oppositions and petitions to cancel registrations.
- Counseling and litigation in computer law matters including software copyright, anti-circumvention, open source software, computer fraud and abuse, computer theft and hacking, and digital trespass.
- Trade secret counseling, confidentiality agreements, and litigation with former employees and competitors.