Trademarks and Copyright Attorneys

Intellectual property rights such as trademarks and copyrights are some of the most valuable assets to many businesses and individuals. Norman Spencer copyright attorneys can help you with the identifying, registering, and protecting your trademark, be it a name, a sign, a service mark, or a domain name.

We can help you register and protect a copyright to your original work of authorship. Examples of such work could be literary works, art, photographs, fashion designs, or computer software.

Norman Spencer trademark attorneys can assist you with monetizing or sharing your intellectual property with others by negotiating license agreements or asset purchase agreements. We can also help you avoid legal problems for unauthorized use of intellectual property of others by negotiating purchase agreements to acquire it.

We can protect your rights when your copyrights or trademarks are infringed upon by third parties.

If you have a product, which you would like to protect by trademark, our attorneys will conduct a search to determine whether your marks could be registered. In other words, we need to know if there are any potentially conflicting marks. We also need to know whether the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) may determine the chosen marks as too generic, descriptive or otherwise not suitable for registration. If the mark could registered, we will prepare applications for registration and see them through to conclusion. That could involve communicating with the USPTO and potential third parties who may claim similar rights. When a trademark registration is completed, we assist clients with maintaining the registration of their marks by filing required affidavits of continued use.

Technically, registration of trademark is not necessary. Under law, trademarks exist without registration. However, registering a trademark will certainly solidify your rights. Registered trademark and their proper use enjoy additional protection.

Copyright for original works come to existence automatically as soon as the work is created and preserved in some tangible form. Although registration of copyrights is unnecessary, it is highly advisable because once registered, the original work has additional legal protection. Also, unlike with trademarks, failing to register copyright will prevent its enforcing in case of infringement.

If you need to speak to an intellectual property attorney regarding trademark and copyright issues, feels free to reach out to our office.