Intellectual Property
We help clients protect, enforce, and maximize the value of their innovative ideas and creations. Our team of experienced attorneys combine technical expertise with legal acumen to offer comprehensive services across key areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, due diligence, and licensing. Whether you’re an inventor, entrepreneur, or artist, our tailored strategies can help to ensure your intellectual property rights are safeguarded and leveraged to support your goals.
Patents - Experience and expertise to safeguard your inventions.
Patents protect inventions and capital required to develop them. Patents are government grants that give the owner the right to prevent others from making, using or selling the claimed invention for a period of 20 years from the filing date. Our attorneys have extensive experience securing patent rights for our clients by preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the United States and around the world. Our registered patent attorneys have engineering and science degrees, as well as law degrees, so we understand our clients’ technology. We have worked with clients in many different industries and across a wide variety of inventions, from simple mechanical devices to complex computer technologies. We also offer patent litigation services to protect our clients’ patent rights against third party infringers.
With proper planning, a patent can provide you with incredible rights to exclude companies from making, using, selling or offering to sell your invention without permission. Quality patents can dramatically increase the value of your business by reducing or eliminating your competition. Great patents come from great lawyers with deep experience in patent prosecution. They don’t come from online forms, self-help books, or “invention consultants.”
Our registered patent attorneys have decades of experience. We are Dallas, Texas patent attorneys, and we have helped Fortune 100 companies obtain thousands of patents in a wide variety of industries. We can help you, too. Even if you can’t bring your idea to market, a patent can be licensed to companies in exchange for a royalty payment. Patents can also be sold or assigned to companies that are interested commercializing your invention. Don’t delay. Under federal law, patents are awarded to the first person to file a patent–not the first person to come up with the invention.
If you have assets worth protecting, call 214-238-8400 or email info@HarperBates.com to consult with a registered patent attorney today.
Trademarks - Protecting Your Brand. Protecting Your Business.
Business reputations are built around brands, such as your business name and your product names. Because your trademarks identify your business as the source of high quality products and services, trademarks are important assets that should be protected and enforced. Our attorneys will work with you to develop appropriate trademark strategies suited to your business needs. We regularly assist clients with obtaining trademark registrations in the United States and around the world. We also enforce our clients’ trademark rights when a competitor or other third party attempts to trade on a client’s goodwill and business reputation by using a confusingly similar trademark. Enforcement efforts may include sending cease and desist letters, pursuing an opposition or cancellation proceeding before the U.S. Trademark Office, and filing a trademark infringement lawsuit to seek an injunction and monetary damages.
In today’s global marketplace, smart companies protect their growing brand with a strong portfolio of trademarks. A trademark is a reflection of goodwill–the trust developed between you and your customers. A trademark is a symbol of confidence that your branded products or services are superior to those offered by your competitors. Without trademark protection, competitors can chip away at this goodwill and profit on the reputation of your brand.
Trademark rights begin with the use of a trademark in connection with the goods or services you offer to the public. Registering your trademark provides enhanced protection for your brand and increases its value as a business asset.
Our firm has helped clients secure thousands of registered trademarks in the United States and around the world. We have helped companies strategically build and manage large trademark portfolios throughout the world, and we can help you, too.
Protecting your brand requires more than filling out an online form. It requires skill and experience to navigate the complex process of identifying valid trademarks, clearing potential trademarks, and obtaining robust and enforceable trademark protection.
We are Dallas, Texas intellectual property attorneys with decades of experience assisting individuals, startups, growth companies, and Fortune 100 clients with trademark prosecution, portfolio management, and brand enforcement.
Protect your brand. Call 214-238-8400 or email info@HarperBates.com to consult with a registered trademark attorney.
Copyrights - Protecting Your Creations. Protecting Your Legacy.
We assist artists, authors and creators of new and original works in protecting and enforcing their copyright interests. Our firm assists clients in identifying copyrightable content and secures protection for such content by registering and securing copyright protection with the U.S. Copyright Office. We also provide copyright litigation/enforcement services to protect our clients against the unauthorized use of their valuable copyrights, and defending them against charges of infringing the rights of others.
Protect your brand. Call 214-238-8400 or email info@HarperBates.com to consult with a registered copyright attorney
Due Diligence - Examination and audit of patent, trademark and copyright portfolios
Relying on our broad intellectual property experience, we commonly assist clients in technology acquisitions and intellectual property portfolio management. We regularly provide due diligence services related to the examination and audit of patent, trademark and copyright portfolios in the context of asset purchase transactions and intellectual property portfolio acquisitions. Our expertise in conducting due diligence transactions provides our clients with assurance that they are receiving the benefits of the transaction and that the intellectual property assets are valid and enforceable.
Protect your brand. Call 214-238-8400 or email info@HarperBates.com to consult with a registered trademark attorney.
Licensing - Maximizing licensing benefits for our clients.
When clients desire to license intellectual property rights to others, our firm stands ready to advance their interests. We regularly prepare and negotiate patent, trademark and copyright licensing agreements in a variety of contexts and technologies, including medical devices, oilfield equipment and software platforms. We work to maximize the licensing benefits for our clients, not only in terms of monetary value, but also in terms of reducing potential liabilities and exposure that may arise in the context of a licensing transaction.
Protect your brand. Call 214-238-8400 or email info@HarperBates.com to consult with a registered licensing attorney.