intellectual property

Driscoll Seltzer facilitates the reservation, protection and maintenance of key commercial assets – intellectual property rights. From a brand name to creative content and proprietary trade secrets, our firm can devise a protection plan for intellectual property rights, including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and domain names. We understand the need to provide scaled, cost-effective legal services tailored to your individual needs. In today’s market, your valuable intellectual property rights can be harmed with the click of a mouse. If your IP rights are threatened or infringed, Driscoll Seltzer can implement a litigation strategy to preserve, protect and reduce the impact to such rights.

trademark registration and protection

Our trademark clients include individual artists and authors as well as franchisors and corporate entities managing a portfolio of IP rights. We provide trademark availability search and opinions, trademark prosecution and registration, assignments and licensing.  We are also experienced litigators in inter partes and ex parte disputes before the USPTO TTAB and infringement actions in federal court.

copyright registration and prosecution

Our copyright clients include artists, authors, playwrights, franchisors, architects, software developers, online app developers, web developers and non-profits. We advise clients regarding copyright protection and enforcement in traditional areas and more unique areas. Our focus is to identify the benefits of copyright registration and its usefulness as part of your overall intellectual property portfolio and business plan.

trade secrets

Most, if not all, businesses have the need for trade secret assistance. We assist clients with the creation and enforcement of trade secret policies and procedures through employee and third-party agreements and the development best practices to protect these valuable rights. We are also experienced in the enforcement of such rights, which necessarily includes an evaluation of the likely cost and probable outcome of litigation.

domain names

We are experienced practitioners handling domain name disputes before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy proceedings. If your trademark or service mark is being infringed by the unauthorized use of a domain, we can assist in recovering the domain in a WIPO UDRP.