Our clients’ slogans, brand names and logos differentiate our clients from the competition. Branding is key to the lasting success of a business, and we work closely with our clients to ensure that we understand the clients’ business objectives, secure the viability of the clients’ trademark portfolio in the marketplace and enforce our clients’ trademark rights against potential infringers.

At JCIP, we offer a broad range of trademark portfolio development, management and protection services. We help our clients select, develop and implement valuable trademarks by conducting trademark searches and providing legal advice on trademark clearance. We assist our clients secure trademark registrations in the U.S. and nearly every country in the world through cost-effective trademark prosecution strategies.

We advise our clients on developing sound company policies on the appropriate trademark usage in the marketplace to establish the clients’ trademark rights, negotiate trademark acquisitions and licensing, and prepare trademark assignments. We also assist our clients on a wide-range of trademark counterfeit issues and seizures at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Our attorneys are highly experienced in all aspects of trademark challenges and litigation. We have successfully represented clients from various industries in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark and Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We aggressively litigate trademark infringement and unfair competition cases in the federal and state courts to enforce and defend our clients’ trademark rights. Moreover, we work very closely with our foreign partners in various opposition, cancellation, and infringement actions to protect our clients’ trademark rights abroad.