LEGAL SERVICE AREAS
Stakeholder Brands' core practice areas are exclusively copyrights, trademarks and entertainment law. We have the experience, staffing and dedication to provide cost-savings and streamlined efficiency in the protection of your IP and related creative and entertainment assets.
Copyrights
Copyright protection is available for any work fixed in a tangible medium of expression that is both independently created and contains sufficient originality. Copyrights ensure that the creative expressions of individuals and enterprises are protected. Copyright protection extends to many fields including publications and printed literary works, advertising copy, mixed media installations, film, textile design, photographs, software programs, website pages, toys, jewelry, wallpaper design, architectural works and music. Stakeholder Brands have the depth of experience in the full range of client copyright issues, including:
Trademarks
Establishing and protecting brands is and remains vital for clients success in today’s global economy. Stakeholder Brands has extensive experience in all aspects of trademark law, including:
Entertainment
Stakeholder Brands provides clients with experienced representation in all aspects of transactions, ownership and employment issues involving entertainment projects and properties, including:
- Clearance searches
- Strategic applications for copyright registration
- Domestic and international portfolio maintenance and management
- Licensing and other agreements like work-for-hire agreements
- Due Diligence for acquisitions and transactions
- Ownership transfers and assignment recordals
- Responses to formal examination
- Litigation
- Customs Service recordations and enforcements
- Counseling and implementation of best practices, including developing client copyright protection programs
- Agreements, including work-for-hire agreements
- Counseling relating to FARS and DFARS in government contracts area
- Clearance searches
- Strategic filings for registration
- Domestic and international portfolio maintenance and management
- Licensing and other trademark related agreements like NDAs and Sweepstakes
- Due Diligence for acquisitions and transactions
- Litigation
- Customs Service recordations and enforcements
- Social Media brand registration, like #hashtag registration and Amazon Brand Registry enrollment
- Counseling and implementation of best practices, including developing client trademark protection programs
- Ownership transfers and recordals
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) inter partes proceedings – oppositions and cancellations
- Office Action responses and appeals, including oral arguments before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO
- U.S. and international registration with the USPTO and foreign jurisdictions both through direct filings and under the Madrid Protocol, the European Community Trademark system and other international registration systems and treaties
- Domain name protection and enforcement under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Procedure
- Infringement opinions and portfolio evaluation and assessment
- Searches, including clearance of sound recordings and music composition
- Life rights agreements;
- Licensing
- Talent contracts such as celebrity endorsements and appearance agreements
- Creative endeavor employment
- Merchandise tie-in agreements
- Strategic registrations of entertainment works