Maslon's Intellectual Property lawyers offer significant capabilities and experience as an advisor to information and technology-focused businesses. We serve clients in virtually every segment of the retail, software, technology, manufacturing, life sciences and financial services industries.
Maslon offers sophisticated business counseling and transactional capabilities in all aspects of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, advertising, internet and computer law and litigation. The firm is well known for its expertise in handling complex intellectual property prosecution, procurement and management strategies, including registration, licensing, enforcement, distribution and compliance issues. Our broad experience as advisors to companies on major transactions and key decisions enables us to identify opportunities and innovative solutions to complex transactions. This experience also allows us to more effectively advise and coordinate key aspects of our clients' intellectual property procurement, protection and licensing strategies.
Like our clients, our Intellectual Property lawyers are entrepreneurially directed and results-oriented. We bring two key attributes to our role as an advisor to innovative and technology-focused businesses:
- Recognized expertise and advanced capabilities in intellectual property, licensing, technology counseling and litigation.
- A keen awareness of the strategic importance of our clients' intellectual property and technology initiatives acquired over four decades of service as counsel to Fortune 500, private and emerging companies.
Resources:
www.wipo.int
The World Intellectual Property Organization is the U.N. agency responsible for the protection of intellectual property throughout the world. Its web site provides background and texts of all major treaties and other forms of international IP protection. The site includes complete information on intellectual property in general, and on specific WIPO initiatives on dispute resolution, domain names, electronic commerce, biotechnology, and other current issues.
http://clea.wipo.int
WIPO also maintains the Collection of Laws for Electronic Access database containing all national laws relating to intellectual property, all treaties administered by WIPO, and bibliographic data concerning each legislative text and treaty. While the bibliographic data are in English only, the laws and treaties are available in French and Spanish as well. The system is remarkably simple to use, with a search bar and menu of contents on the left and results displayed in the center.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu
Sponsored by Stanford University Libraries, Copyright and Fair Use is a useful collection of copyright law materials and links with a focus on primary source materials, including current legislation and recent cases. Of particular note is its case law section, which includes not only full text opinions, but, for some cases, briefs and analyses.
http://udrp.lii.info
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Database provides access to decisions issued in accordance with the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), www.icann.org. The database includes nearly 7,000 decisions involving more than 11,000 domain names.
www.ipmall.fplc.edu
Franklin Pierce Law Center's Intellectual Property Mall is a comprehensive, "one-stop shopping" site for links to IP resources on the Internet. Many of the links include thorough annotations, making them more useful than most. But links are not all you will find here. Among the varied resources are a library of faculty research papers on IP topics, a collection of IP moot court briefs from award-winning teams, federal IP jury instructions, copies of USPTO patent examinations, and a tutorial on patent searching via the Internet.
www.ipo.org
The Intellectual Property Owners Association is a group of manufacturers, organizations and individuals dedicated to protecting the rights of IP owners. Highlighting its web site is its daily news service - reports from the courts, Congress and elsewhere on developments in IP law and related issues. Another section, "IP in the Courts," pulls together in one location news reports of court ruling and the actual rulings.
www.inta.org
The International Trademark Association, an international association of trademark owners and associated professionals, hosts a web site that goes beyond the usual association fare of membership information, event listings, and publication sales. While much of the site is directed at nonprofessionals, a section designated for lawyers includes the ITA's collection of amicus briefs and a guide to using ADR in trademark and unfair competition matters.
www.sec.gov
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission contains electronic copies of registration statements and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 filings (e.g., Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements) and certain Section 16 filings (e.g., Forms 13D, 13G) submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission by issuers and their affiliates. This site is also and invaluable resource for checking on the status of SEC rule pronouncements and related developments.
www.seclaw.com
SECLAW.com is an online guide to securities law with extensive securities law information as well as a useful summary of current events in corporate finance.
www.vfinance.com
The vFinance, Inc. web site contains a wealth of information about current events in the venture capital industry as well as tools for attracting venture capital investment.
