We help businesses protect their most valuable intangible assets — brands, inventions, designs, and creative works. From trademark registration to IP enforcement, our team provides end-to-end intellectual property counsel.
In today's knowledge-driven economy, intellectual property is often a business's most valuable asset. SMR Legal's IP practice helps clients identify, protect, and enforce their intellectual property rights — from brand names and logos to inventions, designs, and creative works. We provide strategic IP counsel that aligns with your business objectives.
We handle the complete trademark lifecycle: comprehensive availability searches, filing applications across all 45 classes, responding to examination reports and objections, attending hearings before the Trademark Registry, and securing registration. We also manage trademark renewals, amendments, and assignment/licensing of registered marks.
For businesses with multiple brands, product lines, or geographic markets, we develop and manage comprehensive trademark portfolios. This includes watch services to monitor potentially conflicting applications, opposition proceedings against infringing marks, and strategic filing plans to extend protection to new classes or territories.
We register copyrights for literary, artistic, musical, and cinematographic works, as well as software and databases. While copyright protection arises automatically upon creation, registration provides valuable evidentiary benefits in enforcement proceedings. We also draft copyright assignment and licensing agreements.
When your IP rights are infringed, we take swift and decisive action. Our enforcement services include cease and desist notices, civil suits for permanent injunction and damages, criminal complaints for counterfeiting, customs recordation to prevent import of infringing goods, and takedown requests for online infringement.
We conduct IP audits to identify unprotected or under-protected assets, assess the strength of existing registrations, and identify infringement risks. For M&A transactions, we perform comprehensive IP due diligence covering ownership chains, encumbrances, licensing arrangements, and pending disputes.