Our Intellectual Property Practice
The Hamideh Firm represents clients in a full range of intellectual property services, including strategic planning, counseling, prosecution, and registration services. We assist clients in creating and identifying intellectual property assets and formulating strategies to protect those assets. We focus on counseling our clients on issues relating to copyrights, trademarks, patents, and the rights of publicity.
Our Firm represents IP clients in the following areas: business, entertainment, eCommerce, technology, fashion and apparel, and other consumer products. Our clients include U.S. and multi-national companies with significant portfolios, mid-sized companies, start-up businesses, and individuals with their first IP matters.
We represent clients in the following areas:
Trademarks
- Selection, search, and clearance of trademarks, service marks, and trade names.
- Filing and prosecution of federal and state trademark registrations, including applications, office actions, appeals, and final refusal appeals.
- Maintenance of trademark portfolios.
- Policing of adverse use of trademarks on a national and world-wide basis.
- Enforcement of trademarks in California federal and state courts.
Copyrights
- Advise clients regarding copyright protection.
- Advise clients regarding proper copyright use.
- Advise on, negotiate, and draft collaboration and joint authorship agreements.
- Advise on, negotiate, and draft work made for hire agreements and their limitations.
- Assist clients with copyright registration applications with the U.S. Copyright Office.
- Advise clients regarding fair use of copyrighted materials.
- Advise, negotiate, and draft transactions relating to copyright licenses, clearances, purchases and sales of copyrights.
- Represent clients in the prosecution and defense of copyright infringement litigation in California federal and state courts.
Right of Publicity
- Advise clients on commercial value in name, likeness, voice, and signature.
- Assist in searches of infringing uses of clients’ rights of publicity.
- Manage right of publicity licenses and scope of use, including duration and forms of media.
- Vigorously and aggressively prosecute right of publicity violations.