Trademarks, Service Marks, Internet Domain Names
Trademarks, service marks, trade dress, trade names and Internet domain names are all valuable intellectual property assets that help establish market awareness and identity for products and services.
Squire Sanders intellectual property lawyers have extensive experience in assisting clients in selecting trademarks. Depending upon the client’s plans for the scope and reach of a particular mark, we conduct a universal search to determine the mark’s availability. Once a mark is selected, we assist in obtaining trademark registrations worldwide, policing the registrations, and opposing and petitioning to cancel third party applications or registrations which may be too similar to a client’s trademark. We also do related work in the Internet domain name field. The group’s lawyers have extensive experience in both enforcing trademark and domain name registrations worldwide and defending clients against unwarranted charges that their trademarks, trade names or domain names may be too similar to those of a third party. We enforce domain name rights with the experience built on success and industry participation.
Our Internet and e-commerce services include preparing and prosecuting applications worldwide to register copyrights, trademarks, service marks, logos and masks works, and preparing postregistration documents to keep the registrations in force. As part of this and the firm’s general intellectual property practice, our lawyers are experienced in multijurisdiction European filings.
Lawyers in Squire Sanders intellectual property practice have also represented a variety of celebrities, professional athletes, and related organizations on issues concerning licensing, the protection of name, image and likeness, rights of publicity and trademark rights.