Practices

Intellectual Property

Recognize and protect your most valuable assets.

Copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property are among every company’s most valuable assets. And among every company’s most vulnerable assets.

With more than 70 years of combined experience, we understand the value of your intellectual property—whether on the factory floor or in the sound studio. We help you navigate long-standing intellectual copyright laws while remaining agile and staying out in front of new technologies. We leverage our litigation experience and knowledge to draft better contracts and organize business structures to help ensure that lawsuits don’t happen.

As lawyers who best understand the value of your intellectual property, we are best equipped to represent your interests in the courtroom and at the bargaining table, maximizing the use and value of your intellectual property and minimizing your risks.

 

Evolving In the Digital Age: The Importance of Protecting Intellectual Property

Once upon a time, only a newspaper or a broadcaster needed to be concerned over lawsuits for defamation or invasion of privacy. But in this Internet Age, every company with a website or social media presence has joined the ranks—and the risks—of the world of publishing.

So, too, rights of publicity and copyrights were once the principal domain of the entertainment industry.  But now  retailers, banks, and manufacturers have discovered that they, too, own valuable copyrights—indeed, some of our biggest copyright cases have involved disputes within traditional industries that are now hotbeds of intellectual property litigation. And then there is the field of trademarks. These key company assets—those instantly recognizable symbols of you and your brand that can be worth more than your company’s physical assets—are now even more important and more vulnerable in the Digital Age.

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Services We Provide

  • Arbitration & Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Bad Faith Registration

  • Collaboration & Co-Development Agreements

  • Contract Drafting & Review

  • Copyright Infringement

  • Copyright Ownership Disputes

  • Copyright Protection & Enforcement

  • Cybersquatting & Domain Name Disputes

  • Defamation Clearance

  • Digital Avatar & Virtual Asset Licensing

  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Compliance & Takedown Notices

  • Domain Name Theft

  • Domain Names & Social Media Protection

  • Endorsement, Sponsorship & Licensing Agreements

  • Fair Use Analysis & Legal Opinions

  • Intellectual Property Counseling

  • Intellectual Property Due Diligence

  • Intellectual Property Litigation & Dispute Resolution

  • Intellectual Property Ownership Analysis for Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Mediation

  • Name, Image & Likeness Agreements

  • Patent, Technology, Software, Copyright, Trademark & Data Licensing

  • Right of Publicity Protection & Disputes

  • Terms of Service, Terms of Use & End User License Agreements (EULAs)

  • Trademark Infringement

  • Trademark Licensing

  • Trademark Litigation

  • Trademark Protection & Enforcement

  • Trademark Registration & Brand Protection

  • Trademark Registration, Clearance & Availability Searches

  • Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Proceedings

  • Transactional Due Diligence

  • Video & Photography Licensing

  • Intellectual Property Team

    Michael A. Kahn

    Senior Counsel

    P: 314.505.5406
    E: kahn@capessokol.com

    P: 314.505.5452
    E: salsich@capessokol.com

    P:  314.754.4840
    E: wood@capessokol.com

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