Intellectual Property Management

Starting With a Solid Foundation

Our attorneys establish new business entities to achieve your business objectives and to manage your intellectual property. Our Business Formation Package includes a comprehensive business agreement that provides a legal framework for how your business will be run, how intellectual property will be utilized, and how royalties and profits will be allocated among the business owners. A solid legal foundation and framework is essential to successfully managing a business as it grows, so we make sure your businesses gets off on the right foot.

Managing Potential Infringement Liability

Our attorneys help you avoid costly and disruptive intellectual property disputes by analyzing infringement risks. We recommend an infringement analysis be performed every time you consider launching a new product or a new brand. Learning too late that a new product or brand violates another party's patent or trademark can be very costly and disruptive. Our experience defending clients against infringement liability guides our infringement analysis.

As a first step in the infringement analysis, we conduct patent searches or trademark searches to uncover relevant intellectual property owned by third-parties. We then provide you with clearance opinions explaining whether your proposed product or brand would interfere with another party's intellectual property. If necessary, we advise you how to modify your products or brands to avoid infringing another party's intellectual property.

Managing Intellectual Property Ownership

We assist your business to manage its ownership of intellectual property produced in-house and acquired from third-parties. To safeguard your intellectual property, we record your ownership interests with the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

Intellectual Property Produced In-House

We take the appropriate steps to ensure that intellectual property deriving from your employees becomes the property of your company. Our attorneys coordinate with your human resource department to put in place company-wide procedures and employee agreements to secure intellectual property to you as the employer. We further provide on-site training for employees to educate them regarding intellectual property best practices.

Intellectual Property Acquired from Third-Parties

We prepare License Agreements and Assignment Agreements to enable you to use and acquire new intellectual property from third-parties. Our attorneys negotiate with third-parties on your behalf to pursue favorable terms for intellectual property acquisitions.

Managing Deadlines & Ongoing Requirements

An invaluable service that we provide is keeping your intellectual property enforceable. Most intellectual property requires active maintenance to avoid it going abandoned. We manage important deadlines for you so that you can focus on your primary business objectives. We inform you what steps are required and then take those steps for you when approved – it is just that simple.

Managing Intellectual Property Growth

Our attorneys help you grow and evolve your intellectual property portfolios. Our patent law experts are skilled in the procedures necessary to turn one patent application into multiple issued patents, which puts you in stronger enforcement and licensing positions. Further, our trademark law experts identify and protect valuable trademarks companies often overlook, such as designs, slogans, and trade dress.