Our intellectual property attorneys work with all types of companies to provide comprehensive IP services, from start-up to well-established, including high tech, financial services, software development, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and life sciences, real estate, advertising, non-profit, fashion, arts and entertainment, food, alcohol, and cannabis businesses.
We advise on brand development, protection, and enforcement, and have extensive experience handling IP transactional matters including licensing, assignment agreements and consent arrangements, development and co-development agreements, co-branding and distribution agreements, manufacturing agreements, and influencer and endorsement agreements. We also conduct due diligence on IP assets in connection with mergers, financings, IPOs, licensing and other business transactions.
Areas of Expertise
- Trademark counseling, registration, and enforcement
- Trademark clearance and policing
- Brand development strategy
- Trademark counseling and strategy for highly regulated industries, including alcohol, cannabis, hemp, and psychedelics
- TTAB proceedings (USPTO)
- Licensing, co-branding, manufacturing, and distribution agreements
- Internet and e-commerce-related counseling
- Website terms of use and privacy policies
- Work for hire agreements and design agreements
- Advertising counseling
- Anti-counterfeiting enforcement
- Domain name counseling
- Copyright counseling, registration, and enforcement
- International trademark and copyright portfolio management
- Rights of publicity counseling, licensing, and enforcement
- Endorsement and influencer agreements
- Trade secret counseling
- Intellectual property assignments
- Noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements
- IP due diligence
- IP audits
- IP counseling related to mergers, financings, IPOs, and other business transactions
- Acting as in-house IP counsel for emerging companies