Counseling
Chernoff Vilhauer has substantial expertise in advising clients regarding their rights, obligations, plans, and internal management of intellectual property assets.
The firm offers counseling on such IP-specific matters as:
Professionals
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The validity and scope of U.S. and foreign intellectual property rights
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Freedom-to-commercialize searches and opinions
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How to protect research and development
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Whether to pursue trade secret or patent protection
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Selection of new product names,trademarks and designs
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Licensing, joint development, consulting, confidentiality, and employee inventorship and research development agreements
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Patent strategies that protect against competitors who try to design around clients' patents
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Counseling with respect to actual and potential intellectual property disputes
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Identifying intellectual property goals and providing strategies to achieve these goals