It’s our goal to ensure that you feel confident and safe when you share your creative gems with the universe. It’s our pleasure to help build your confidence with our creative legal advisement, copyright and trademark registrations, contract drafting and review, social media and digital matter counseling, and enforcement and monitoring services. At Lauture IP, we provide comprehensive services to ensure that your work, your brand, and your business are covered.
Trademarks & Brands
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, your business can successfully command a significant advantage in the minds of their customers by establishing and maintaining a strong brand identity. At Lauture IP, LLC, we counsel creatives and companies across all industries on how to develop and protect a distinct brand identity to help your business stand out. As brands grow and evolve, we are here to guide you at every stage, counseling on trademark clearance, identifying possible barriers, monitoring for counterfeits, and maximizing the value of trademark rights.
We understand the challenge that you may face in shielding your goodwill from trademark infringement and dilution. With a diligent eye on your bottom lines, we offer comprehensive solutions for trademark policing. We enable you to realize the complete value of your marks and trade dress rights through aggressive prosecution of infringement, anti-dilution, anti-counterfeit, and unfair advertising cases.
Trademark Clearance
o Whether you don’t know where to look or what to look for, our trademark clearance services serve to help you avoid potentially brand-threatening issues. We analyze the strength of your mark and provide thorough comprehensive trademark search results to help determine whether there are any conflicting registered or common law trademarks and whether your mark is clear for use for your desired goods or services.
Trademark Prosecution
o Trademark registration provides significant protection for your brand. There is filing a trademark application, and there is filing the right trademark application. We assist you with the trademark registration of your desired and cleared mark by taking care of the heavy lifting.
o Office Actions: When it comes to trademark examination, the potential issues that may arise can range from simple administrative issues to complex legal issues. We will assist in managing your examination anxiety by preparing the appropriate responses to any Office Actions you may face.
Trademark Maintenance, Monitoring & Renewal
o One of the many advantages of having trademark rights is being able to enforce them and maintain your exclusivity status for your business. We can assist you with properly maintaining your trademark (e.g. applications for renewal, declaration of use/non-use, declaration of incontestability).
o We also offer services to monitor the trademark databases to alert you if someone attempts to register a mark that could jeopardize your brand’s goodwill.
Trademark Opposition/Infringement/Enforcement/Disputes
o Whether you are playing offense or defense, oppositions, infringement, and enforcement issues can cause distress. The issues can range in complexity and expense. It’s important to not tackle these issues alone, and you don’t have to! We can assist you with: trademark pre-litigation disputes (e.g. cease and desist letters, oppositions, opposition responses); drafting and negotiating concurrent use, co-existence, and related settlement agreements; and disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (oppositions, cancellations and concurrent use proceedings). We also can help you with trademark assignments and trademark licensing.
Trademark Portfolio Management
o If your company has a portfolio of trademarks that have been used and acquired over its growth, Lauture IP can help to manage deadlines, conduct filings, and counsel your company on how best to maintain airtight trademark protection for your valuable assets. We also assess and strategize as many avenues as possible to identify and protect potential valuable rights that may have been overlooked or left on the table.
Trademark Assignments and Ownership Transfers
o You may obtain trademark protection prior to forming a business and need to assign the rights to the business. You may make changes to your business’ corporate structure or business name. In either case, it is crucial that ownership of your trademark be transferred properly through an Assignment of Rights. The assignment not only must transfer the trademark and registration, but also must transfer the goodwill of the trademark to be valid. Trademark assignments can be complicated and we are here to help with the process, identify any red flags, and advise you of any risks!
Copyright & Entertainment
As an innovator, you’ve been provided a special gift. Don’t let those gifts go unprotected! While you own the copyright to your creative work as soon as you create it, the copyright is unenforceable against infringement until it is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. From literary and musical works, to product designs and computer software, we will help you obtain copyright registrations. We can also counsel you on the myriad of changes that affect copyright law as it involves new technology. From registration, to enforcement, to licensing, we will work diligently with you to protect and enforce your work, no matter how petite or grand, and no matter the industry. We also advise you on best measures to avoid infringing upon existing copyright in creative works.
Copyright Counseling, Clearance, Prosecution & Registration
o We will help you secure, retain, and enforce exclusive rights in your copyright works, as well as prepare and prosecute copyright applications to ensure your copyright protection.
o Providing in-depth copyright due diligence and portfolio management, we: analyze current and future ownership interests, identify any inherent risks in any contemplated transactions, assess your potential vulnerability to competing claims, and advise on strategies to mitigate any identified risks.
Monitoring, Enforcement & Defense
o We can assist with protection of unique, creative works through: copyright licensing, contracts, monitoring for infringement, and cease and desist letters.
o Because we know that there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to copyright enforcement, we provide enforcement services that are uniquely tailored to your business’ needs and work with you to achieve your copyright protection goals. We draft and negotiate documents to ensure you receive adequate compensation for misuse of your copyrighted work.
o We provide counseling on potential copyright claims and defenses, such as, copyrightability, fair use, ownership, chain-of-title, and third-party liability.
Rights of Publicity Counseling
o We draft, review, and negotiate: rights clearances, life story rights agreements, talent/location releases.
Digital Matters, Social Media,
& Contracts
No matter the task, we work as a team to make sure your business operates effectively and safely. You do the work, make the deals; we make sure your business is always protected, on and offline. Contracts can get complicated. At Lauture IP, we draft clear and concise agreements, personalized for your needs, with terms that will anticipate and provide protection from potential issues that may arise. With the ever-evolving internet and social media channels, there is quite a lot to keep up-to-date with and monitor. With our services involving digital matters and social media, we are here to take the weight off of your shoulders!
o Internet Issues and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - DMCA takedown requests; DMCA Defense; DMCA Compliance
o Third-Party Use & Online Infringement Audits
o Domain Name and Social Media Disputes, Acquisition and Recovery
o Online Privacy Policies and Terms & Conditions
o Draft and negotiation of agreements specifically related to Intellectual Property Rights
o Defamation and Libel Counseling
o Other Agreements: Licensing Agreements, Distribution Agreements, Vendor Agreements, Releases, Work-for-hire Agreements, & many others.
Businesses rely upon outside counsel to act as their in-house and general counsel. At Lauture IP, we provide general counsel and outside counsel services tailored to each client’s needs. Working closely with our clients, we gain an in-depth understanding of their business activities and objectives. Because of this, we are able to provide focused, cost-effective, and client-centered advice, as well as counsel on legal issues confronting clients on a regular basis.
Schedule a consultation with us to discuss which option works best for your business.
