Safeguarding your most valuable assets
In many cases, a company’s brand, business creations, and confidential information can be its most valuable and important assets. At Foley Hoag, our Trademark, Copyright & Unfair Competition attorneys understand the importance of these assets, which is why clients turn to us to take swift action when those assets are being challenged or must be asserted against others.
Our lawyers have a depth of subject matter and trial experience to prosecute and defend against all types of trademark, copyright, trade secret, Internet, and domain name enforcement and litigation issues for our clients. We successfully represent clients on both sides of the issues, from smaller companies accused of infringement to large corporations policing and protecting their famous brands.
Whether your trademarks are registered or are safeguarded under common law, our lawyers provide creative strategies for policing, enforcing, and defending them. We have conducted investigations into improper use of trademarks, assisted clients when trouble occurs at the border by working with U.S. Customs to prevent the importation of counterfeit and gray market goods, and represented clients in federal district courts across the nation in cases involving the Lanham Act and the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
Our lawyers have significant experience litigating trademark registration issues in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, where we employ creative and innovative strategies to secure our clients’ trademark registration rights. When the issue is domain names, our clients can rely on our unparalleled understanding of the various trademark rights protection procedures provided by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, including the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
Foley Hoag handles the full scope of copyright matters for our clients, including enforcing copyrights against infringers on the Internet through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and engaging in large-scale litigation to protect and defend our clients’ valuable copyrights.
Our attorneys also have extensive experience handling claims of misappropriation of trade secrets. We literally wrote the book on “Trade Secrets: A Guidebook for Technical and Business Professionals."
