Intellectual Property Investigations

Intellectual Property Investigations

Intellectual Property crimes are at an all-time high. The Intellectual Property Commission estimates that intellectual property theft in the form of counterfeit goods, trade secret theft, and pirated software can cost the United States anywhere between $225 billion and $600 billion each year. It is also estimated that the average cost to defend a patent lawsuit exceeds $3 million. 

• Copyright Investigations: when pictures, drawings, music, writings, consumer packaging, and other creative works have been registered, yet someone else is reproducing, distributing, performing, publicly displaying, or using without the permission of the copyright owner. 

• Trademark Clearance Investigations: after a trademark clearance search has been conducted, when results of an exact or similar trademark covering exact or similar goods need further investigation of the owner, current use of the mark, and the goods being used with the trademark.

• Trademark Infringement Investigations: when you have a registered trademark for specific goods and/or services and an infringer is using your registered trademark or a confusingly similar trademark for your registered goods and/or services or with similarly confusing goods and/or services.

• Design Patent Infringement & Counterfeiting Investigations: when you have an active issued design patent for a product and an infringer is selling, importing, using, or making a product using your patented design, and/or when a company produces, distributes, and sells a confusingly similar product which is covered by your design patent.

• Patent Infringement Investigations: when you have an active issued utility patent which covers the function and/or technology of a product and an infringer is selling, importing, using, distributing, or making the product or technology covered by your patent.