Intellectual Property and Trademark

Garfunkel Wild is uniquely positioned to assist health care providers to secure, license, enforce, and resolve disputes involving copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents.  We leverage our health care knowledge and experience to ensure that health care related intellectual property agreements and transactions comply with all applicable health care laws, rules and regulations.

Garfunkel Wild’s Intellectual Property and Trademark Practice Group is a leader in providing legal services to entities in connection with intellectual property matters including:

Intellectual Property Strategy
 

• IP portfolio evaluation and management
• Identify, acquire, protect, license, and sell IP assets
• Employee and consultant nondisclosure, confidentiality, and proprietary rights agreements
• IP joint venture, joint development, collaboration and strategic alliance agreements

Branding and Trademarks
 

• Branding strategy, advice, and usage guidelines
• Trademark selection, clearance, and searches
• Trademark licenses, manufacturing and supply agreements, and coexistence agreements
• Trademark prosecution and registration: applications, rejections, and office actions

Intellectual Property Disputes
 

• Enforcement against infringers
• Defense of IP actions and audits
• Trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings

Patents and Know-How
 

• Design patent applications
• Exclusive and nonexclusive patent licenses
• University and industry research collaborations
• Patent settlement agreements

Copyrights and Other Intellectual Assets
 

• Copyright registrations
• Talent and sponsorship agreements
• Photo, video, audio and publicity releases
• Copyright advice for creative arts, including music, literature and performance

M&A, Financings, Securities
 

• IP, IT, data, and privacy diligence for acquisitions, mergers, securities issuances, and financings
• IP assignments, licenses, and cross-licenses ancillary to transactions
• Chain of title diligence and filings
• Social Media assignments and license

With the rise of social media and the internet, establishing, maintaining, and defending a recognizable brand is more important than ever.  While Garfunkel Wild’s Intellectual Property and Trademark Practice Group works for all of our clients regardless of industry, we are uniquely positioned, based on our health care law expertise, to assist providers with these issues.  The business of healthcare is complicated and competitive, but our Intellectual Property and Trademark team can bring its expertise to bear to ensure that our clients’ intellectual property rights are secured and enforced.