Trademark, Copyright, and Intellectual Property Law

Few assets are as important to a company as its intellectual property. That is why Prince Lobel’s skilled intellectual property lawyers are poised to protect our clients’ trademarks and copyrights and help safeguard their trade secrets.  We are dedicated to helping clients of all sizes maximize the value of these assets and protect them from encroachment. 

Our Trademark, Copyright, and Intellectual Property practice includes

• Working with business and individual clients to develop a sound and comprehensive strategy for protecting their intellectual property
• Helping clients maximize the value of their intellectual property assets
• Registering and protecting copyrights, trademarks, and Internet domain names
• Drafting and negotiating confidentiality and proprietary information agreements
• Drafting and negotiating license agreements
• Litigating copyright, trademark, and patent infringement claims, as well as claims for misappropriation of trade secrets
• Handling domain name proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)
• Ensuring compliance under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and its safe harbor provisions

We service the intellectual property needs of individuals and companies, from inventors and entrepreneurs to large corporations, in fields ranging from the traditional and online media, to insurance, to computer software.  Our lawyers are members of specialty associations including the Copyright Society of the United States, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the International Trademark Association. 

For more information on Prince Lobel's Trademark, Copyright, and Intellectual Property Law practice, please contact Robert A. Bertsche at rbertsche@PrinceLobel.com or 617 456 8018 or Joseph D. Steinfield at jsteinfield@PrinceLobel.com or 617 456 8015.

Representative Matters

• Trademark registration and protection - For clients ranging from publishing companies to a national insurance company, Prince Lobel intellectual property lawyers regularly register and monitor our clients’ trademarks in order to protect them from infringement.
• Trademark infringement - We defended the events planning division of an international media company against trademark infringement claims brought by a Florida-based business.  The case settled after Prince Lobel attorneys successfully defeated the opposing party’s attempts to litigate the case in Florida.
• Trade secrets - We brought claims on behalf of a regional magazine that alleged that a competitor had stolen its confidential advertiser list. Though the settlement terms were confidential, the competitor issued a statement saying that its employees had engaged in misconduct of which it had been unaware.
• Software copyright infringement - We successfully defended a computer software maintenance company and its president in federal court against claims for copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
• Fair use counseling - The firm’s media lawyers regularly advise newspapers, magazines, Web publishers, and broadcasters to help them publish without courting claims of copyright or trademark infringement.
• Intellectual property audits - Prince Lobel lawyers regularly engage in detailed examinations of clients’ copyright, trademark, and trade secret protection practices to ensure compliance with state and federal laws and ward off infringement claims.