Overview

At Verna Law, clients access full-service, business-driven intellectual property counseling that evolves with the globally changing IP environment. Verna Law handles all aspects of domestic and international IP matters, including trademarks, copyrights, IP enforcement and defense, IP licenses and agreements, domain names, software services, counterfeit protection, unfair competition, and IP counseling and audit services. Trademarks: Performing due diligence clearances (trademark searches written opinion letters of the use of various proposed and in-use marks from clients), trademark prosecution (through TEAS system) and advising clients in use of trademarks in business, successfully settling TTAB and district court cases, licensing agreements. Copyrights: Drafting Work for Hire agreements from both sides (the owner and the creator); Settlement negotiations to prevent copyright litigation; advising clients with infringed work; registrations of copyrights Licenses: copyright settlement agreement converting infringement to use music in an advertising campaign; agreement for the use of copyrighted material (characters from an in-development television show); copyright settlement agreement to use photographs in a book; copyright settlement agreement converting infringement to use a derived work from client's visual work as the design in a t-shirt Advertising and Promotion law: Writing sweepstakes rules for client expanding business from United Kingdom to United States and coordinating with attorneys in U.K. Attorney advertising