TRADEMARKS

What Is A Trademark Or Service Mark?

We work with early stage businesses that need help launching a brand as well as with already established companies that need help in managing and protecting their brands.

The Firm’s services include:

Providing counsel on trademark screening/selection, availability and usage at the state and federal levels.

Registering proposed trademarks and service marks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and Florida Intellectual Property Office.

Helping clients monitor enforcement of their trademarks and service marks, including trademark opposition and cancellation/expungement proceedings.

Preparing mark assignments and other transactions.

Performing due diligence and intellectual property audits on trademarks for mergers, acquisitions, technology transfers, and other commercial transactions.

Why Register a Mark?

In the current competitive business environment, companies and individuals in business are increasingly focused on protecting their marks from misappropriation and misuse in order to build a reputation in the relevant market and allow consumers to more efficiently make decisions in that market. Therefore, registering and monitoring your trademarks and service marks is of critical importance.

Copyrights

We assist our clients securing copyright registration for their work, as well as on matters relating to copyright licensing and assignment and work-for-hire issues. We represent musicians, songwriters, sculptors, artists.

We also advise clients on the provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act and international copyrght law.

Trade Secrets

 

What is a Trade Secret?

Under both federal and state law, trade secrets are intellectual property rights on commercially valuable business, financial, and technical information that is not generally known outside of the owner's organization, -such as business processes, strategies, confidential know-how, scientific formulas, business pricing guidelines and customer information, among others; and that the owner makes reasonable efforts to keep it secret from its competitors.

Protect your Trade Secrets

In today’s world of fast growing digital and global competition environment, we help our clients fashion suitable methods to maintain confidentiality and protect their companies’ trade secrets. We can assist you with the drafting and preparation of employee handbooks, confidentiality agreements, covenants not to compete and licenses, including the use of these agreements for business partners and employees.