Our main practice areas cover a wide range of intellectual property issues that are sometimes referred to as “soft-IP.” This includes copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, domain names and related areas of entertainment/media law.
Copyrights
- Protection, registration and portfolio management
- Enforcement (copyright infringement claims)
- Copyright counseling (e.g., fair use, copyrightability, ownership and chain-of-title issues)
- Content licensing and transfers
- Music issues (special licensing and compliance issues relating to music copyrights)
- DMCA demands (online enforcement claims)
- DMCA anti-circumvention issues
Trademarks
- Protection, clearance, registration and portfolio management
- Protection of unique brands, such as trade dress and color trademarks
- TTAB disputes (opposition and cancellation proceedings)
- Enforcement (trademark infringement, unfair competition and false advertising)
- Licensing and assignments
- Concurrent use and related settlement agreements
- International Trade Commission (importation issues)
Trade Secrets
- General counseling (protecting and maintaining trade secret information)
- Confidentiality and related agreements
Entertainment and Media
- Agreements for rights of publicity and privacy
- Licensing of entertainment assets (e.g., music, video, photography, literary works, etc.)
- Software licensing
- Software as a Service (SaaS) agreements
- Mobile software and website development agreements
- Website terms of use, privacy policies and EULAs
Domain Names
- Developing a strategy for the registration and enforcement of domain name assets
- Registration of new top-level-domains (TLDs) and country domains (ccTLDs)
- Anti-Cybersquatting and UDRP disputes
Corporate IP
- Internal corporate IP ownership and licensing
- Due diligence for the sale and acquisition of IP assets
- Security interests for IP assets