Grell & Watson intellectual property (patent, trademark, and copyright) services includes assisting our clients across a a variety of industries with both domestic and international protection. We provide intellectual property-related services, including:

  • PatentsPatent
  • Trademarks
  • Copyrights
  • Trade Secrets
  • Design & Trade Dress Protection
  • Software Protection
  • Licensing & IP Contracts
  • Business Contracts
  • Computer, Internet Law, and E-Commerce
  • IP Searches & Opinions
  • Unfair competition
  • Infringement, Validity, and Freedom-to-Operate Opinions
  • International IP Protection
  • M&A IP Due Diligence Assessments

Patents

  • Assist clients with review efforts to protect research, development, and engineering efforts in order to maximize patent coverage
  • Patent searches, analysis, and opinions with regard to novelty and obviousness issues
  • Patent searches, analysis, and opinions with regard to validity, freedom to operate and infringement issues
  • Preparation and filing of initial Record of Invention documents
  • Non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements
  • Preparation and filing of domestic and international patent applications
  • Prosecution of domestic patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Reissue and reexamination
  • Preparation of Response to an Office Action
  • Restriction, Continuation, Continuation in Part, and Divisional applications
  • Maintenance fee services
  • Prosecution of international applications (Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)) before the WIPO
  • Association with, review, advice, and exchange of information with, foreign patent attorneys for international cases
  • Transfer, assignment, and licensing transactions for patent and patent pending assets

Trademarks

  • Assist clients with trademark review efforts when developing branding, logo design, appearance, and social media strategies
  • Trademark searches, analysis, and opinions with regard to registration and use issues
  • Trademark searches, analysis, and opinions with regard to validity and infringement issues
  • Preparation and filing of domestic and international trademark applications
  • Prosecution of domestic trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Prosecution of domestic patent applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Preparation of Response to an Office Action
  • Trademark maintenance fee services
  • Association with, review, advice, and exchange of information with, foreign trademark attorneys for international cases
  • Transfer, assignment and licensing transactions for trademark assets
  • Trade dress issues
  • Unfair competition issues

Copyrights

  • Assist clients with copyright review efforts when developing content, visual, audio, video and other expressions of artistic content
  • Copyright searches, analysis, and opinions with regard to registration and use issues
  • Preparation and filing of domestic and international copyright applications
  • Prosecution of copyright applications before the United States Copyright Office
  • Association with, review, advice, and exchange of information with, foreign trademark attorneys for international cases
  • Transfer, assignment and licensing transactions for copyright assets
  • Transfer, assignment and licensing transactions for copyright assets
  • Work-for-hire agreements