Intellectual Property - PRACTICE AREAS - Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Musick Peeler offers its clients a comprehensive range of intellectual property services. These include strategic planning and counseling, as well as the prosecution and registration of patents, trademarks and copyrights in the United States and around the globe (in conjunction with a network of qualified foreign counsel). The Intellectual Property Group assists clients in identifying intellectual property assets and in formulating strategies to protect and leverage those assets. When intellectual property litigation or other disputes occur, the firm's attorneys have the skills and resources to protect their clients' interests while seeking a favorable and cost effective resolution. Musick Peeler has extensive experience in all forms of dispute resolution, including administrative proceedings, mediation, arbitration, and trials, as well as appeals in both federal and state courts, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The firm's attorneys also handle adversarial proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Office.

Musick Peeler represents the gamut of intellectual property clients comprising numerous large U.S. and multinational companies, as well as many mid-size and start-up enterprises. The Group's clients include industrial and manufacturing concerns, technology companies, internet enterprises, electronic businesses, telecommunications concerns, sporting goods and apparel companies, and real estate businesses, in addition to franchisors and franchisees and clients involved in entertainment and sports, medical and health services, food and restaurants, and software development.

Trademarks

The Intellectual Property Group provides services regarding trademarks in the following areas:

Selection and clearance of trademarks, service marks, and trade names
Counseling about proper trademark use
Filing and prosecution of federal and state trademark registrations
Planning and implementing anti-counterfeiting programs and foreign trademark protection
Maintaining trademark portfolios
Policing adverse use of trademarks on a global basis
Licensing, purchasing, and selling of trademarks
Administrative litigation involving trademark registration, including Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) matters
Infringement and counterfeiting litigation in federal and state courts

Patents

The Group's patent services include:

Advice regarding patentability
Preparation and prosecution of domestic and international patent applications in a broad range of technologies
Prosecution and defense of patent infringement litigation
Validity and infringement studies and opinions
Strategic patent counseling
Licensing, purchasing and selling of patents
Development and implementation of patent strategy on a global basis
Patent searches
Maintenance of patent portfolios

Copyrights

The Group offers the following copyright services:

Advice regarding copyright protection, proper copyright use, and fair use of copyrighted materials
Preparing and filing copyright registration applications
Handling transactions involving copyrights, including licensing, copyright clearance, purchase and sale
Prosecution and defense of copyright infringement litigation

Other Intellectual Property Services

Musick Peeler's Intellectual Property services also include:

Resolution of antitrust issues and disputes involving intellectual property
Advice about trade secret protection
Handling trade secret disputes and litigation
Advice about and litigation of advertising and marketing matters
Obtaining and documenting security interests in intellectual property assets

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