Our Intellectual Property and Information Technology practice serves individuals, established and emerging businesses in diverse industries: entertainment, sports, internet, computers, telecommunications, consumer products, healthcare, advertising, publishing, and consulting to name a few. We help you protect your intellectual property in ways that promote your products and services.
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- Evaluations of potential marks, including searches for availability of trademarks and consultation as to selection
- Applications and registration of trademarks
- Enforcement of trademark rights and trademark disputes
- Trademark protection and development programs -- including training of client personnel
- Oppositions and cancellations
- Sending and responding to cease and desist notices
- Trademark licenses and other transactions involving trademarks
- Domain name protection
- Trademark portfolio management
- Litigation
- Registration
- Enforcement of copyrights
- Copyright licenses and other transactions involving copyrights
- Disputes involving copyrights
- Sending and responding to cease and desist notices
- Clearing rights in copyrights owned by others
- Copyright portfolio management including, for example, music publishing
- Litigation
IP Evaluations and Due Diligence
- Rights clearance for entertainment properties (motion pictures, television programs, computer software, books, music, and websites) involving issues such as copyright, trademark, right of privacy/publicity, defamation, etc.
- Errors and Omission insurance matters, including attorney opinions
- Investor side evaluations
- Intellectual property audits
Listen to the podcast of an interview with Tim Matson focusing on why your company needs an intellectual property legal physical.
We would be pleased to answer any questions you may have about the services of our intellectual property attorneys. Any questions may be directed to:
In Minnesota:
Tim Matson at tim@lommen.com or 612-336-9331 or Greg Perleberg at greg@lommen.com or 612-336-9320
In Wisconsin:
Stacey DeKalb at stacey@lommen.com or 612-336-9310
or any of the attorneys in this practice area pictured below.
Additional Information:
Do Companies Sue Competitors to Learn the Competitors' Trade Secrets? In the new millennium, employee mobility is the norm. Gone are the halcyon days when employees worked for one company for their entire career. One consequence of greater employee mobility is the proliferation of trade secret claims. When an employee leaves one company to work for a competitor, it is not unusual for the former employer to sue the new employer for misappropriation of trade secrets. Read the Corporate Counsel article by Keith Broady and Tim Matson.
[Q] I read more and more about how intellectual property is becoming so important these days. But my company is neither high-tech nor entertainment related. Why should I be concerned with intellectual property rights? Get the answer in this Ask Upsize segment.
Termination of Copyright Transfers in Music Receives National and International Interest - Ken Abdo's quote in the New York Times article on August 15, 2011 ignited national and international interest in the topic of termination of copyright transfers.
The Second Annual Entertainment & Sports Law Symposium was held on November 12, 2009. Lommen Abdo attorneys, partnering with Minnesota Law & Politics® and the GRAMMY Foundation®, spoke to attorneys and industry professionals about substantive legal and business issues addressed in the practice of entertainment and sports law.