Trademark Intellectual Property Lawyer
Intellectual Property Practice
Intellectual property lawyers at LLA counsel small business owners on matters such as patent, copyright, trademark law and trade secrets. Intellectual property lawyers at LLA also assist small business owners in drafting licensing agreements, negotiating settlements, and conducting due diligence on IP assets.
Intellectual Property Lawyers at LLA might represent small business owners in litigations or before administrative agencies such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the International Trade Commission.
Intellectual property lawyers also keep small business owners abreast of new rules and regulations governing the protection of intellectual property.
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What are intellectual property rights?
Intellectual Property Lawyers at LLA help you understand intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They are created to give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.
Intellectual property rights are customarily divided into two main areas:
(i) Copyright and rights related to copyright. The rights of authors of literary and artistic works (such as books and other writings, musical compositions, paintings, sculpture, computer programs and films) are protected by copyright, for a minimum period of 50 years after the death of the author.
(ii) Industrial property.Industrial property can usefully be divided into two main areas:One area can be characterized as the protection of distinctive signs, in particular trademarks. The other types are patents designed to protect inventions, industrial designs and trade secrets.
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Why do small business owners need intellectual property lawyers?
In a rapidly growing intellectual property market — the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received 440,768 new trademark applications in 2017, which was almost 14% over 2016’s number. Similar to real property, the amount of “clear land” available for intellectual property depletes by the day as more people and companies are filing trademark applications to protect their brands and patent applications to secure the utility or designs of their products. Without protection, you could end up spending a lot more money in defending against someone else or even rebranding, and miss out on commercial opportunities.
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