We have extensive experience in litigating trademark disputes before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Our clients are often highly innovative in creating new technology and programming. But innovations lose their value if not protected against copying. We advise our clients how best to protect their work. We recently assisted a large software company in connection with its tradename from the research and development phase to marketing and distributing its products.
Copyrights are the chief way of protecting computer programs, written works, art and music.
Copyrights are effective, but they must be handled properly. We serve many programmers, writers, and artists. We have extensive experience in this field, including the representation of computer software companies, publishers and an artist with respect to copyrights in a large publicly commissioned sculpture. But it can be protected in other ways. We often recommend nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements with employees, but such agreements must be carefully written to be effective.