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For creative companies and individuals, often their most valuable assets are their creative works. Hendricks & Lewis works with clients to identify those assets that can be legally protected and then helps them to register copyrights, preserve trade secrets and obtain trademarks, and refers them to patent counsel, as appropriate. When intellectual property rights are threatened, we are experienced in acting quickly to initiate temporary restraining order and injunction proceedings and can litigate all types of intellectual property disputes on our clients’ behalf.

Copyright law can be like an iceberg.  On the surface it’s deceptively simple but beneath that apparent simplicity there can be issues of significant complexity.  Questions can arise, such as:  What is copyrightable and who is entitled to the copyright?  What constitutes infringement and how are copyright damages determined?  Given the long life of registered copyrights, what are the impacts of various statutory changes in copyright laws?  How are copyrights registered, conveyed, lost, renewed and passed to the next generation?  We have substantial experience with all of these issues and others.

Our trademark practice encompasses Lanham Act and common-law trademark issues, as well as disputes involving domain names. Our trade secret practice includes confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and employee termination issues.  When clients want to use their creative works in conjunction with others, we advise about, negotiate, draft, and review development agreements, licenses, transfers and security agreements.