Intellectual Property As Property

The Mergers, Acquisitions & Licensing Group concentrates on commercial transactions involving domestic and international patent, trademark, copyright, domain name, technology and other intellectual property rights. Our significant experience in all areas of intellectual property transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, worldwide assignment, change of name and merger recordal transactions, collateralization, licensing, due diligence, and furnishing legal opinions enables our firm to understand routine as well as complex issues faced by companies and deliver superior legal services from a global perspective. Please see the links listed below for additional information and for articles published concerning Licensing, Assignments and Recordals and Security Interests in Intellectual Property.

This section of our website also has a subsection on Treaties relating to Intellectual Property. This treaties are critically important in the recognition of priority rights between countries, in the minimum standards for patent, trademark and copyright protection afforded by the member countries, in regional and pan-regional patent, trademark and copyright protection schemes and in a number of other matters related to the protection of intellectual property rights.

Licensing - a critically important topic for some companies.

Assignments and Security Interests and their Recordal - very important if your company is involved in a merger, a sale or purchase of Intellectual Property assets, or using Intellectual Property as security for a loan.

Security Interests in Intellectual Property in the U.S. - While the law with respect to the creation of security interests is fairly uniform across the 50 United States under the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.), the law surrounding the perfection of security interests in intellectual property remains quite unsettled.

Treaties - GATT, WTO, PCT, Paris Convention and many other impact Intellectual Property rights.