TRADEMARKS | COPYRIGHTS | TRADE SECRETS
The intellectual property team at Marks Gray has the experience, professionalism, and attention to detail needed to handle your toughest intellectual property law cases.
Our team provides personalized service to individuals, entrepreneurs, and established businesses to help navigate the risk and understand the opportunities in starting and growing a business.
At Marks Gray, we take pride in protecting your intellectual property – regardless of industry, size, location, or stage of business success.
Areas of practice include:
The creation of your intellectual property took valuable time, knowledge, and skill. Because of this, you should properly protect your intellectual property from the beginning by consulting with an intellectual property attorney.
Many creative entrepreneurs and startup businesses run into IP issues during the startup phase. They get a great idea, put it online without following all the steps to protect their creation, and someone steals it.
This happens every day on the internet.
These issues range from situations like authoring and self-publishing a book that needs copyright protection to creating a trademark for a newly formed business.
Advice columns and articles exist that cover bits and pieces of the in-depth process required to complete a trademark search, trademark application, or copyright application – but how do you know if a key piece specific to your creation has been addressed?
If every small detail is not covered, you open up yourself – and your business – to a number of problems you may not be equipped to handle.
Incomplete trademark search results or an unsuccessful copyright application could result in your business receiving a cease and desist letter – or even another person accusing you of plagiarism and copyright infringement.
An intellectual property lawyer can help you avoid these problems before they arise.
The preparation of a trademark application or copyright application requires knowledge of the law, rules, and procedure to make sure you obtain complete protection for your intellectual property asset.
Phrases like “merely descriptive,” “likelihood of confusion,” and “geographically descriptive” appear often in correspondence from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and you may not know how to respond. An intellectual property lawyer can help you understand those phrases and advise you on how to avoid them.
Marks Gray’s lead IP attorney, Crystal T. Broughan, is experienced in all kinds of intellectual property matters:
Additionally, Ms. Broughan has managed the litigation of a wide variety of intellectual property disputes in state and federal courts, which include trademarks, trade secrets, domain names, patents, copyrights, breach of contract issues, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices.
Her experience will help protect your creation.
This ebook will help you understand the process of creating, registering, and protecting your trademarks, so your business can reap the benefits associated with a successful trademark registration.
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