Trademark Law

In today’s commercial world, your brand commands trust and loyalty.  Protecting your brand is the purview of trademarks.  Any word, name, symbol, sound, or color used in commerce that distinguishes goods and services from those manufactured or sold by others and indicates the source of the goods can be used as a trademark.

Trademark rights are created upon use of the mark.  And, procuring federal registration of your trademark is an important component in any strategy to protect and promote your brand.  Federal registration of your trademark carries a number of benefits.  For example, federal registration acts as prima facie evidence of the validity of the registered mark, of the registrant’s ownership of the mark, and of the registrant’s exclusive right to use the registered mark in commerce on or in connection with the goods or services specified in the certificate. 

Federal registration also provides access to federal courts for claims of trademark infringement and for remedies including injunctive relief, damages, and attorneys fees. 

With significant experience in counseling, procuring and establishing trademark rights for its clients, Fitzgerald & Isaacson can assist you with all your trademark matters, including:

• Trademark counseling and advice
• Trademark searches
• Filing and prosecuting trademark applications
• Opposition proceedings
• Cancellation proceedings
• Trademark infringement litigation
• International trademark protection
• ICANN proceedings and Anticybersquatting Dispute Resolution