Intellectual Property Practice Area
Our Intellectual Property and Internet Liability Team counsels clients with respect to creation and enforcement of intellectual property rights. We also aggressively prosecute and defend all types of intellectual property claims in State and Federal courts throughout the country.Trademarks - Trade Dress - Patents
Our Team has extensive experience in protecting trademark and trade name rights in words, colors, designs and slogans. We also provide assistance in creating trademarks and service marks for new businesses and negotiating license agreements involving these rights.We are on the forefront in litigating trade dress cases involving packaging, product design and product configuration, many of which include patent infringement claims.
Working side by side with patent attorneys, our trial attorneys litigate patent infringement, validity and enforceability matters throughout the country, involving mechanical, electrical and biotech devices. These cases often also include anti-trust claims for anti-competitive and monopolistic practices, disparagement and a host of other unfair business practices.
These cases often involve temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunction hearings. We have assembled a team of attorneys with the necessary expertise and support staff to successfully handle these emergency hearings with little or no notice.
Copyrights
Our Team provides enforcement and protection of clients' copyrights in computer software, photographs, books, music, paintings, catalogs, and advertising campaigns, to name a few. We also provide counseling in the registration of copyrights. Much of our counseling and litigation currently arises out of use or abuse of the Internet.Internet
Our Team has significant experience in litigating a variety of matters arising out of electronic commerce, including prosecuting cybersquatters who usurp clients' domain names and litigating trademark infringement and trademark dilution claims relating to unauthorized linking to another's website, use of others' trademarks in metatags or banner ads and webcasting, to name a few. We also provide advice on encryption issues arising out of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.Trade Secrets - Counterfeiting - False Advertising
Confidential business information can be protected as a trade secret. Our Team has been a leader in litigating claims for misappropriation of such trade secrets against former employees, competitors and contractors.These lawsuits often require us to prosecute or defend claims for unfair competition involving economic espionage, fraud and counterfeiting activities.
As part of our client counseling services, we prepare covenants not to compete, trade secret agreements and employee manuals and internal procedures that maximize the legal protection that can be afforded proprietary information. In addition, we litigate false advertising, product disparagement/trade libel and breach of contract claims in the entertainment, food, telecommunications and manufacturing industries.
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