Trademark

Description

Patent, Copyright, and Trademark

Patent • Trademark • Copyright • Trade Secret Attorneys

At Chan Law Group, intellectual property is our most sought after practice. Our lawyers think creatively, work resourcefully, and produce effective results.

Your actual creation or invention, or other form of intellectual property is the first step in productive innovation. The next step is ensuring that you have the legal protections established to protect your rights to your individual personal property. These legal tools will also allow you to effectively utilize or sell your property while protecting the invention and your interests.

We partner with technology, growth and entertainment business enterprises to effectively leverage their intellectual property after gaining an intimate understanding of our client’s marketplace, competition and business objectives.

Strategic Leveraging of Intellectual Property Asset

We begin by identifying critical intellectual property that our clients can stack out an effective competitive position and effectively leverage using cutting-edge legal practices. We conduct appropriate searches and review prior and competing patent, trademark, domain name, and copyright which have been registered by competitors. We develop the most cost effective strategy to leverage the intellectual property assets. To ensure our clients have full title and rights in the targeted intellectual property, we review agreements with employees and suppliers to ensure the ownership of the intellectual property are vested in the clients.

We work closely with our clients’ development and design teams to navigate around competitors’ intellectual property. When design around is impractical, we identify prior competing owners and negotiate with rights owners to buy out the title and all rights in the IP, gain license, seek consent, and enter into co-existence agreements.

Patents

Our patent attorneys have specialized backgrounds and particular experience in the areas of life science, medical devices, electronic, software, aerospace, communication, internet, business method, furniture, beauty, toy, home decoration, financial service, and real estate. Our patent attorneys include those with advanced degrees and a previous senior examiner with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

We endeavor to understand our client’s market and product cycle and secure the most critical patent with the broadest scope which will be at the forefront of the product and technology trend. At the same time, we identify the areas in which the technology may evolve and attempt to legally block the path of the development of competing technology or business methods. We review the technology landscape and provide freedom-to-operate opinions to guide clients away from potential landmines.

Our patent lawyers craft patent applications not just to get them registered, but to make it appealing to buyers and licensees, and to pass muster with the courts and jurors. We have successfully obtained patents for entrepreneurs, UCLA professors, scientists, physicians, engineers and Fortune 500 companies.

Domain Name, Trademarks, Copyrights & Advertising

Our attorneys counsel clients on the selection, protection and enforcement of company names, brand names, slogans, domain name, trade dress, copyright for U.S. and worldwide markets, including registration and licensing. Our lawyers are adept in quickly understanding our client’s products and marketplace and guiding clients in selecting the most risk appropriate brand name, domain name, company name, slogan, and trade dress and obtain worldwide registration for the chosen brand name and product shapes.

We obtain consent and releases from owners of potentially competing marks, domain names, and works of authorship or negotiate the purchase of desired marks and licenses. We oppose and cancel offending marks before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board. We assist our client in the proper usage of their trademarks and ensure the marks are maintained at the U.S. Patent and Trademark, WIPO, the European Community, and individual countries throughout the world.

Trade Secrets

When applying for patent will entail disclosing trade secrets and to protect confidential customer information, sources, and product pricing strategy, we assist client in developing procedures and policies, crafting proper contractual languages in employee agreements and licenses to take full advantage of the protection afforded by trade secret law.

Technology Transfer, Licensing, Joint Venture, Outsourcing

Our lawyers have extensive experience in negotiating and structuring numerous transactions where the focus of the transaction is intellectual property, be it strategic partnership, licensing, joint venture, merger & acquisition, outsourcing - information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), application development and maintenance (ADM), procuring computer and software, co-development, OEM transactions, and distribution agreements. We aim to place our clients in the most optimal positions.

Our partners were once businesspersons or have been general counsels with leading technology companies. We are business lawyers adept in negotiating business terms to add values to our clients’ businesses. Our attorneys represent both vendors and customers and our experience cuts across a wide range of industries and government institutions. We regularly conduct transactions in China, taking advantage of our multilingual skills and understanding of the local culture and business practices, and other countries with rapidly growing outsourcing businesses. Our lawyers have done deals with and counseled clients in negotiating with Microsoft, Toshiba, Intel, and IBM, Amazon, among others.

Intellectual Property Litigation & Trademark Trial Appeal Board

Finally, we aggressively enforce intellectual property rights and vigorously defend against claims of infringement or misappropriation before state and federal courts, 337 cases before the International Trade Commission, U.S. Customs, and Trademark Trial Appeal Board. The firm has successfully resolved disputes and litigated against Microsoft, eBay, and Philips.

Aggressive, Innovative, Efficient, Scholarly, Loyal and Smart Lawyers

Our lawyers are aggressive, innovative, and efficient strategist and tacticians. Our lawyers came from top academic institutions, having served on law reviews and published scholarly articles. Our lawyers are sought after speakers in legal seminars and conferences. Many have prior careers with large law firms but prefer the communicative and efficient environment of an IP boutique. All are savvy in technology and science and some have advance degrees in science and engineering and one was previously a senior patent examiner. Many of our attorneys and supporting staff are multilingual and all are sensitive to cultural issues critical to communicating with clients and opposing parties in resolving disputes. We treasure long term relationships and are loyal to our clients, always using our best efforts to represent them cost effectively.

Contact Chan Law Group to speak with trusted intellectual property lawyers in registering patents, trademark and copyrights, protecting trade secrets, negotiating transfer of technology, licensing and out-sourcing transactions, and litigating patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret lawsuits. We are proud to offer top legal counsel to businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the United States and our global community.

Our services are offered in English, Mandarin and Cantonese

Chan Law Group ®
Street Address: 1055 W. 7th Street, Suite 1880, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 79159, Los Angeles, CA 90079
Phone: (213)-624-6560
Fax: (213)-622-1154

The Chan Law Group LC is located in Los Angeles, California, and serves clients in Los Angeles County, including, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Lakewood, Garden Grove, Irvine, Torrance, El Segundo, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Burbank, Hollywood, Glendale, Pasadena, Burbank, Azusa, Monterey Park, Alhambra, Huntington Park, Buena Park, Commerce, Norwalk, Whittier, Baldwin Park, Walnut, Santa Fe Spring, Artesia, Downey, Baldwin Park, Monrovia, Brea, Industry, Pomona, Ontario, Covina, El Monte, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, California. We are experienced in assisting international clients from Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil, and Japan, Please contact our southern California office for more information about our firm and services.