Intellectual Property
Trademark & Domain Name Capabilities
Clearance, Prosecution, Maintenance
- Applications for trademark and domain name registration
- Designing and implementing domestic and international trademark portfolios
- Domestic and international cost and tax saving strategies
- Knockout and comprehensive trademark and domain name availability searches and opinions
- Trademark and domain name clearance strategies
- Trademark and domain name maintenance and administration worldwide
- Trademark and domain name policy and procedure audits
- Trademark and domain name status reports
Transactions
- Financing agreements
- Security interests
- Structuring intellectual property holding companies
- Trademark and domain name assignments
- Trademark and domain name due diligence investigations
- Trademark and trade name licenses and consents
- Undisclosed agent trademark purchases
Enforcement and Defense
- Contested trademark proceedings worldwide
- Trademark and domain name infringement watches
- Trademark and domain name infringement opinions
- Trademark, trade name and unfair competition infringement and dilution enforcement and defense, including mediation, arbitration and court litigation
- Anticounterfeiting and bank account seizure actions
- UDRP and similar domain name proceedings worldwide
We have a computerized trademark recordkeeping system that assists is managing trademarks and domain names efficiently and cost effectively.
Clients have 24/7 worldwide access to reports derived from computer records through the COWAN CONNECT ® secure website without additional change.
Copyright Capabilities
Clearance, Prosecution and Maintenance
- Applications for copyright registration
- Copyright and title searches and opinions
- Copyright policy and procedure audits
- Copyright rights recapture strategies
- Digital music rights strategies
- Recordation of ownership documents
Transactions
- Copyright assignments
- Copyright due diligence investigations
- Copyright licenses
- Creator and joint author agreements
- Dealing with copyright licensing agencies
- Distribution agreements for copyrighted works
- Employment agreements
- Fair use, ownership, duration and infringement opinions
- Financing agreements
- Security interests in copyrights
Enforcement and Defense
- Appeals of refusals to register
- Copyright infringement enforcement and defense, including mediation, arbitration and court litigation
- Copyright infringement opinions
- DMCA notifications of infringement
- International enforcement and compliance strategies
Patent Capabilities
Our patent attorneys concentrate on the electrical, mechanical and business methods arts. Our patent and trade secret experience includes counseling and representing clients in the following technologies:
- Artificial intelligence
- Audience measurement methodologies and systems
- Brassiere and footwear function and design
- Digital and radio transmission systems
- Digital signal processing, including compression and encryption technologies
- Digital, film and video cameras
- Fuel cells
- Glassware and kitchen product design
- Holographic storage
- Image recognition
- Lasers
- Medical devices and medical electronic systems
- Methods of doing business
- Object-oriented programs
- Optics
- Surveillance markers and systems
Clearance, Prosecution and Maintenance
- Annuity fee payment supervision
- Designing and building domestic and international patent portfolios
- Domestic and international cost and tax saving strategies
- Non-provisional and provisional patent applications
- Patent infringement opinions
- Patent policy and procedure audits
- Patent status reports
- PCT application filings and direct foreign application filings
- Planning for establishing and countering competitive patent positions
- Utility, design and business method patent applications
- Validity and availability opinions
Transactions
- Agreements for the domestic and international transfer of technology
- Employment agreements
- Financing agreements
- Patent and trade secret due diligence investigations
- Patent assignments
- Patent licenses
- Security interests in patents
- Structuring intellectual property holding companies
Enforcement and Defense
- Appeals of patent refusals.
- International enforcement and compliance strategies
- Patent enforcement and defense, including mediation, arbitration and court litigation
We have a computerized patent record-keeping system that assists in managing client patent portfolios efficiently and cost effectively.