Services

Trademark Services

We manage thousands of trademark applications and registrations in over 80 countries.

MontaguLaw offers the busy in-house counsel with fast and cost-effective trademark help. We can help consolidate and manage your trademark portfolio. Just like any member of your company’s core legal department, we’ll be there to help search and clear the marks for products and services you market and sell around the world.

Let us conduct a thorough analysis of your existing trademark portfolio, and work with your company to develop a cost-effective approach to maintaining and renewing your registrations. Time and money are wasted when existing trademark registrations are renewed with respect to products or services that are no longer in use, while key product names sometimes go uncleared or unregistered as trademarks, exposing the company to the substantial threat of trademark infringement litigation. As a member of your legal team, we will develop a comprehensive database of all marks in your portfolio and identify key contact personnel within the company who can provide the necessary information for submitting filings or signing the appropriate paperwork. Our robust docketing and reminder system will ensure that deadlines are in hand.

Patents & Copyrights

We can assist with all aspects of U.S. and international patents and copyrights, including the filing and prosecution of patent applications and enforcement of registered patents. Our focus is to identify our clients’ respective patent and copyright needs and work with our worldwide network of agents and attorneys to implement a cost-effective strategy that suits our clients’ needs.

In many jurisdictions outside of the United States, the publication or other disclosure of an invention prior to filing a patent application results in the loss of all patent protection. To avoid the loss of these critical rights get advice early on in the strategic filing process. Patent applications can be costly, considerably more expensive than a trademark or copyright filing, and the process of securing patent rights can take several years. Therefore, it is even more important to start early in the process to ensure that budgets are correctly allocated to get the most protection for the least amount of money. We can help with the process. We can help your company plan and budget accordingly and prevent and avoid costly surprises.

Whether it’s computer software, blogs, a literary work or sheet music, we can assist and advise you in protecting the copyright in your work and licensing your work to others to generate a revenue stream. If you operate a website, we can advise you how to minimize your liability to third-parties with respect to materials posted on your website and guide you to avoid violating other people’s copyrights in your online operations.

Domains Management Services

Domain names are a very important part of any company’s intellectual property portfolio. With developments in Internet technology, the world wide web is fast becoming the first place people turn to when researching your company, its brands and services. Without a sound registration and maintenance strategy your trademarks and desired domains may be registered and held hostage by cyber-squatters. Not sure where to begin? Don’t want to get carried away and find yourself quickly over-budget when registering and maintaining a global domains portfolio? Let us help you manage your domains with a cost-effective strategy that gives your company the protection it needs at reasonable costs. To learn more about our dedicated domains management team,

Whether it is the lawful dissemination of information, videos or music files, or combating the unlawful distribution of digital files, whether it is registering a domain name or prevention of cybersquatting, MontaguLaw can help. We offer advice and assistance with a wide variety of online business activities, including the licensing and distribution of information and other creative materials, registering and maintaining domain names, drafting website terms and conditions, preparing contracts for online transactions, handling privacy and publicity issues and resolving disputes concerning the misappropriation and misuse of intellectual property rights over the Internet.

Licensing

The attorneys at MontaguLaw have experience drafting and negotiating licensing agreements; from trademark and copyright licensing agreements to data distribution and value added reseller agreements to the most complex global manufacturing and store agreements. In a bind? Need to free up some of your resources for larger projects? We can help. To learn more,

Whether you are exploring a multi-national license and distribution deal or want advice in connection with a local concession, we can help. Reviewing, revising, negotiating and drafting license agreements is one of our core practice areas. We provide legal services to a wide variety of clients with diverse business needs. Some are among the Fortune 500, while others are smaller in scale ranging from a well-known chef with a famous New York City restaurant to a leather goods manufacturer with stores in major U.S. cities.

Although our clients’ businesses are diverse, virtually all of them encounter licensing issues in one form or another. From the busy General Counsel who might not have the resources to review, negotiate and draft his or her company’s day-to-day licensing agreements to the entrepreneur who needs help devising and implementing a commercial policy for his or her business, we can help. We understand the nature of our clients’ businesses and will be there to assist with any of their contracting needs.