IP: Trademarks

Trademarks are a symbol of a brand that can lead directly to sales, customer loyalty, and word-of-mouth marketing. Trademarks are quite important in building your reputation and promising specific quality and brand experiences to consumers. As such we help not just register your mark but monitor and protect your trademarks.

Trademark Services We Provide

• Trademark Search: Search trademarks to see if your potential mark is already in use
• Trademark Strategy: After a Trademark search, we help you select strong trademarks that can be legally protected
• Trademark Registration: Register your mark, so you get maximum protection in U.S. and international markets
• Trademark Maintenance: Prepare and file documents to secure and maintain your trademarks
• Trademark Licensing: Draft contracts and agreements for trademark licensing and third party use
• Trademark Enforcement: Monitor trademark registrations and enforce your trademarks through cease and desist correspondence and litigation if necessary. As well as monitoring your trademarks in domain names and social media
• Trademark Portfolio Management: Develop a trademark portfolio management program, including employee education, procedure writing, and third party usage documentation
• Trademark Infringement: Defend you against claims of trademark infringement
• Trademark with U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Register your trademarks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the United States to protect your business against counterfeit imports

What Can Be Trademarked?

A trademark is a word, phrase, symbol, design, or other indicia such as a color or sound (or a combination of one or more of these elements) that is used to identify and distinguish the source of your goods (or services) from others in the marketplace.

Some of the elements you can trademark include:

- Brand names

- Product names

- Logos

- Symbols

- Drawings and graphic designs (including uniquely designed shapes and numbers)

- Taglines (slogans)

- Packaging and labels (as trade dress)

- Sounds

-  Colors

- Scents