SERVICES

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

  • Successful patent prosecution often requires understanding complex or nuanced technologies. Here at the Law Offices of Larry Johnson & Associates, we house a Patent Attorney who doubles as a scientist and enjoys diving deep to understand your innovations. As part of our integrated patent prosecution services, we conduct strategic evaluations (e.g., analyzing assets, identifying gaps, and uncovering business opportunities) and reveal creative ways to address IP challenges. Our Patent services include: 

    • Patent prosecution & strategic counseling

    • Global portfolio management

    • Opinions

    • IP licensing, transactions & due diligence

    • USPTO trials and post-grant proceedings

  • Trademarks are often some of the most valuable assets a company owns. Our in-house Trademark attorney has many years of experience helping clients with trademark clearance searches, trademark filings, and ongoing portfolio maintenance for applications and registrations in the U.S. and beyond. Our team collaborates with you to select, secure, protect, and enforce your brands, trademarks, and creative works in furtherance of your business goals. Our Trademark services include:

    • Filing trademark registrations

    • Representing clients (plaintiffs and defendants) in contested trademark cases before federal and state courts

    • Representing clients’ opposition and cancellation actions before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)

    • Creating full diagnostic trademark clearance opinions focused on the likelihood of registration, and determining whether a proposed TM might infringe on another party’s rights

    • Evaluating trademark registrability and use

    • Proactive trademark portfolio analysis

  • The Law Office of Larry Johnson & Associates’ full-service Copyright practice helps clients register and defend their products and services on an international scale. Our team partners with you to understand your business goals and collaborate to reveal the best way to protect or leverage your brand. We also handle disputes involving copyrighted works, including copyright claims in the Federal Court of Claims and manage claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Additionally, our firm advises businesses on the identification, protection, commercialization, and enforcement of trade secrets. We help clients implement legally defensible safeguards that satisfy the “reasonable measures” standard required under federal and state law, including the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and applicable state statutes. Our Copyright & Trade Secret services include:

    • Filing copyright registrations and represent clients in copyright disputes

    • Developing corporate copyright policies

    • Identifying protectable confidential information

    • Mapping proprietary processes, formulas, methods, data, and algorithms

    • Drafting trade secret license agreements, Joint development agreements, and Technology transfer agreements

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