CA Trademarks, Servicemarks, Copyrights

Skilled Legal Help for Trademark and ServiceMark Registration; Copyright Registration -- by Experienced San Diego Attorneys

San Diego Law Firm offers skilled, experienced help to businesses seeking to register trademarks, servicemarks, and copyrights.

Benefits of Trademark or Servicemark Registration

The logos, phrases, and names that you frequently encounter are trademarks and servicemarks identifying a business's products or services.  Trademarks not only make your business recognizable to customers, but they also protect you because they keep others from using your business name, logo, or product name for their own advantage and without authorization. 

You or your business may already own a trademark.  By being the first to use a trademark, you may get a limited geographic right in its use, even without registering.  However, you don't receive many important trademark rights until you register your mark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the USPTO.  After successful registration, the rights in your trademark that you will receive include:

• The exclusive right to use the trademark nationally
• You'll be able to legally enforce your trademark rights
• Others who use your trademark or a trademark that is too similar to yours can be held responsible even if they didn't actually know about your mark, and
• You'll be able to prevent others from importing products that impermissibly carry your trademark.

Skilled Legal Help for Trademark and Servicemark Registration

Your trademarks and servicemarks set you apart from others on the market.  As your attorneys, we're committed to protecting your business, and securing trademark rights is essential to preserving your business's worth.  We will register your logos and name to prevent competitors from using your marks to confuse and divert your customers.  Registering can also safeguard you by helping you avoid liability just in case your proposed mark is too similar to an existing trademark.  We will do the following in registering your trademark or servicemark:

• Make sure that your trademark is a strong candidate for registration, and have a trademark search performed to check if someone else already owns it.  We will have this search conducted as early as possible because if your mark is too similar to a pre-existing trademark, then by finding out early you can avoid the substantial expense of changing your logo on signage, business cards, and advertising, which can also confuse your customers or clients.
• File an application for federal registration that carefully describes your goods or services and contains appropriate samples.
• Make sure any objections to your trademark are handled.
• Once your trademark is registered, we will advise you on the legal requirements and filings for maintaining your trademark so that it remains a valuable business asset.
• We also provide assistance with trademark registration in all states, which can give you additional protections aside from federal registration.

When you seek registration, the USPTO will hold you to all trademark laws and standards in determining whether your trademark qualifies for registration, even if you don't have a lawyer.  We will give you recommendations about your trademark or servicemark and help ensure your application overcomes the legal and procedural hurdles.  Your trademarks are a driving force in attracting customers or clients, and building your brand and reputation.  This makes your trademark a valuable business asset that is well worth protecting.  Our registration and counseling services will help keep your trademark under your exclusive use.

Benefits of Copyright Registration

Websites, books, advertisements, photographs, architecture and other creative works are all examples of material that can be copyrighted.  Owning a copyright means that you benefit from many protections, since you will generally be the one with the right to:

• Make copies of your work or authorize others to make copies
• Distribute copies or agree to allow others to do so
• Create different works that are based on your copyrighted work, or authorize others to do so, and
• Control whether and how your work is performed or displayed in public.

You own a copyright automatically once you put your creative ideas into a physical form, even if you haven't published or registered your work.  However, it's to your advantage to register with the United States Copyright Office before anyone infringes on your work.  Besides giving you a public record of your copyright, registration can provide you with legal incentives in case someone interferes with your rights.  These incentives include:

• Being able to sue someone who infringes on your work by copying it without your permission, or for violating any of your other rights in the work
• The registration can be important evidence that you have a valid copyright
• If you win the lawsuit, you may be awarded more compensation than if you hadn't registered, as well as your attorney's fees, and
• You can record your registered copyright with the U.S. Customs Service to prevent others from importing copies of your work that infringe on your copyright.

Skilled Legal Help for Copyright Creation and Registration

Protecting the ongoing success of your business includes protecting your copyrighted works.  San Diego Law Firm can help protect you against the unauthorized use of these assets and prevent others from benefiting from your works by:

• Advising you on developing works that meet the legal requirements for copyright protection.
• Preparing the appropriate registration filings carefully so that your application complies with copyright laws and regulations, and provides information in a clear and accurate manner to simplify the application process.
• Ensuring that any particular quality requirements are met for the sample or copy we submit to the Copyright Office.
• Counseling you on giving notice, managing, and enforcing your copyright in order to fully protect you.

How to Contact San Diego Law Firm

We handle matters throughout California, and new clients are always welcome. For more information or to make an appointment, please contact us either by:

Telephone: (619) 794-0243

E-mail: contactus@SanDiegoLawFirm.com
 

We can be reached by telephone Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. You may also use the form below to contact us. This form is answered Monday through Friday during the work day. Please remember that for us to become your attorneys, we must first have a written attorney-client agreement signed by both of us, so please do not email any confidential information at this point. After we have reached an agreement with you, we can then exchange information freely. We look forward to helping you.

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