Major Practice Areas
- Applications for trademark registration, including trade names, product names, packaging, and containers
- Applications for service mark registration
- Applications for collective mark registration
Application and Registration
- Conducting trademark clearance and similarity searches prior to filing
- Assessing registrability and developing filing strategies
- Filing trademark applications
- Responding to office actions, opinions, and amendments
- Providing trademark information and monitoring services
- Filing appeals against refusals
- Registration of trademarks and renewal management
Disputes, Trials, and Litigation
- Handling objections and oppositions to trademark applications
- Trademark infringement analysis and opinions
- Cease-and-desist letters and infringement warnings
- Responses to disclaimers and third-party challenges
- Preparing expert reports and legal briefs
- Invalidation trials
- Trials on scope of rights
- Civil and criminal litigation for infringement and damages
Overseas and International Applications
- International applications under the Madrid Protocol
- European Union Trademark (EUTM) applications
- Benelux trademark applications
- National applications under the Paris Convention (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Poland, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, etc.)
Technology Transactions and Licensing
- Brand and trademark brokerage services
- Trademark licensing negotiations and brokerage
- Recordation of assignments and name changes
- Recordation of prior rights and security interests
- Registration of license agreements