Scott & Scott’s intellectual property attorneys have significant experience registering, licensing, and enforcing copyrights and trademarks globally. Our combination of litigation experience and technology expertise enables us to deal with complex intellectual property issues involving software products, digital media, designs, and emerging media like social networking, blogs, and virtual communities.
Copyright Infringement
Scott & Scott is committed to protecting our clients’ valuable intellectual property assets, including literary works, pictures, website content, and software applications. Scott & Scott’s team of experienced intellectual property attorneys can help businesses identify threats to their intellectual property rights. We monitor and police our clients' copyrights globally to reduce the risk of copyright infringement.
Copyright Registration
Scott & Scott, LLP's copyright attorneys understand how valuable a business’ copyrights can be and have years of experience helping organizations with copyright registration. Scott & Scott assists software developers, artists, architects, inventors, authors, and businesses with global copyright registration. Our lawyers have considerable experience with the registration of literary works, including web sites and software applications.
DMCA Takedown Notices
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides a fast and cost-effective mechanism to protect works in which you hold copyright interests, including pictures, text, and other literal expressions contained on your company’s website. That mechanism allows content owners to send notices of copyright infringement to the Internet service provider (ISP) hosting the copied content. An ISP’s failure to respond to such a notice opens it up to liability for contributory copyright infringement, so many ISPs will take quick action – often within 72 hours – to remove clearly infringing content that has been posted by their users.
Intellectual Property Licensing
At Scott & Scott, we are proud of our strong track record of helping businesses draft and negotiate IP license agreements in a variety of business settings. Savvy business owners know that giving others a license to use their intellectual property can be risky. Businesses frequently find themselves without effective recourse to stop undesirable use of their intellectual property, because they did not retain sufficient control in the terms of the license agreement. Scott & Scott works with its clients to minimize the risks associated with its intellectual property licenses.
Trademark Infringement
Scott & Scott is committed to protecting our clients’ valuable intellectual property assets, including those assets related to domain names, internet marketing, and search optimization. Scott & Scott’s team of experienced intellectual property attorneys can help businesses identify threats to their intellectual property rights. We monitor and police our clients' trademarks globally to reduce the risk of typosquatting, cybersquatting, or trademark infringement related to domain names.
Trademark Protection and Enforcement
A trademark is often one of your most valuable assets. And like any other asset, it must be protected or it can be lost. Registering a trademark is only the beginning. From a business standpoint, widespread use of the same or similar marks by others adversely affects the perception of consumers. Trademark law places the burden of policing use of a mark on the mark’s owner, and we work with you to craft and economical strategy for protecting your mark. Scott & Scott has the tools and expertise to monitor and police the unauthorized use of your trademarks and stop it.
Trademark Registration
Scott & Scott, LLP's trademark attorneys understand how valuable a business’ trademarks can be and have years of experience helping organizations with trademark registration. Scott & Scott assists businesses that market and sell their services on the Internet. Our lawyers have considerable experience with global brand expansion and management. Leveraging the Madrid Protocol, we are now able to assist with global brand launches in a fraction of the time and expense previously required for international trademark registration. Companies that market, sell, or distribute their products or services over the Internet are advised to have an international trademark registration strategy tailored to their unique business.