Intellectual Property

Vandeventer Black’s Intellectual Property team provides a wide range of services relating to trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets and other intellectual property issues faced by businesses, organizations, and individuals. Intellectual property rights are valuable assets.  Our primary goals are to help our clients identify, manage, protect and exploit their valuable intellectual property assets to their fullest potential.

We assist clients with identification and registration of intellectual property; proper use, licensing and assignment of intellectual property; and prosecution and/or defense of intellectual property issues in both federal and state courts as well as in administrative proceedings. In addition, we also counsel and advise clients on intellectual property issues involving the Internet and domain names.

Intellectual Property Areas

• Identification, registration, and protection of all forms of intellectual property
• Proper use, licensing and assignment of trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets
• Prosecution and/or defense of intellectual property issues in federal and state courts and administrative proceedings
• Trademark clearance, prosecution, registration and maintenance with federal and state trademark offices
• Trademark infringement, unfair competition, and false advertising litigation
• Copyright counseling, prosecution, and registration
• Copyright infringement litigation
• Patent infringement litigation
• Intellectual property management and audits
• Association with international counsel regarding protection of intellectual property in other countries
• Domain name counseling and protection
• Protection of trade secrets
• Software protection and licensing agreements
• Valuation and assessment of intellectual property in mergers and acquisitions