Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property law is a highly complex area of the law, which essentially governs the protection the Federal Legislature and courts afford certain ideas, inventions and creations. The most common causes of action that arise in intellectual property cases are copyright infringement, trademark/trade dress infringement, unfair competition and patent infringement.

Copyright infringement actions generally concern actions involving the unauthorized reproduction of a federally protected written composition, which can range from a novel to a company catalog. A trademark infringement suit generally involves the unauthorized use of another company or individual’s federally protected trademark, which can concern a slogan, phrase or a symbol. In the case of trade dress infringement, the subject matter of the suit generally concerns a federally protected product or commodity of another. Patent infringement suits generally concern actions against one that manufactures or reproduces an invention of another that has federal patent protection.

Over the past few years, Kubicki Draper has become increasingly more involved in this area. We have built up a strong database of research, which is quite helpful since this area of law is very “case law” intensive. Our firm has begun to establish a track record for obtaining excellent results in this area of the law.