Trademark & Copyright

A company's trademark and copyrights are the most important aspects of its brand. Perkins Coie's Trademark & Copyright practice works closely with clients to identify and protect the integrity of their brands to ensure they distinguish themselves from their competitors. We help clients develop intellectual property strategies and programs, identify and perfect intellectual property rights, and assert or defend these rights in court.

Our Trademark & Copyright practice group carefully manages more than 13,000 trademarks for more than 700 clients in 125 countries in almost every industry. Whether you are a large company, midsize business, or an emerging growth company with solid growth potential, we will protect the value of these important assets with efficiency.

In the area of trademarks, we focus on all aspects of domestic and international trademark work, including counseling, clearing trademarks for use, registration, licensing and enforcement. We have strong experience in the area of domain name disputes and other Internet-related issues. In the area of copyrights, we protect and enforce copyrights through registration, counseling and agreements. We represent authors as well as companies and other organizations.

Our services include:

• Providing domestic and international trademark counseling, registration, renewal, and risk analysis; 
• Prosecuting and defending oppositions, cancellations and appeals before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board;
• Enforcing and defending trademark rights worldwide;
• Providing copyright counseling, registration and protection;
• Managing Internet domain name and Web site issues;
• Providing counseling on unfair competition, false advertising and trade disparagement; 
• Providing counseling and preparing contracts relating to advertising, entertainment, publishing and rights of privacy and publicity; 
• Conducting due diligence reviews and negotiation of trademark and copyright provisions related to corporate deals and financings.