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Patents, Trademarks, and All Things IP

Trademark

At Hovey Williams, we realize protecting the brand of your product or service plays a significant role in both distinguishing your product or service from the competition, as well as creating enhanced value to your company’s assets. Our attorneys can assist with the registration of your trademark or service mark, to preclude others from using confusingly similar words, phrases, symbols, designs, or combinations of those elements.

Our trademark experts have extensive experience preparing, filing, and prosecuting various types of U.S. trademark and service mark registration applications. In addition, we regularly handle foreign trademark registrations on behalf of our clients. Through our trademark services, we also perform:

  • Searches of various databases to determine the availability of trademarks, including:
    • The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office;
    • State registrars;
    • Common law databases, including electronic yellow pages, domain names, and the Internet;
    • Foreign registry databases
  • Drafting and negotiating licensing agreements
  • Consultation regarding domain names, sponsored advertisements, and other Internet issues

For more information about trademarks, or to speak to one of our attorneys about registering a trademark, please contact one of the attorneys listed below.

Trademark Attorneys

Crissa A. Cook

Crissa A. Cook
Associate
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Tracy L. Bornman

Tracy L. Bornman
Partner
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Cheryl L. Burbach

Cheryl L. Burbach
Partner
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Andrew G. Colombo

Andrew G. Colombo
Partner
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Michael Elbein

Michael Elbein
Partner
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Thomas B. Luebbering

Thomas B. Luebbering
Partner
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Thomas H. Van Hoozer

Thomas H. Van Hoozer
Partner
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Matthew B. Walters

Matthew B. Walters
Associate
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Joan Optican Herman

Joan Optican Herman
Of Counsel
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Dianne M. Smith-Misemer

Dianne M. Smith-Misemer
Of Counsel
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