Practice Areas
Advertising collateral review
Architect and contractor rights
Contracts and Strategic Partnerships
Copyright Registration
Corporate Formalities
Developer and Joint Development Agreements
Domain Name Management and Disputes
Employment Agreements
False Advertising
Foreign and Domestic Intellectual Property Licensing
Intellectual Property Counseling
Intellectual Property Litigation
Internet Law
Photography and Graphic Arts
Privacy and Rights of Publicity
Startups
Trademark Clearances
Trade Secrets
Unfair Competition
Industries
Apparel, Footwear and Accessories
Automotive
Chemical and Materials
Consumer Goods and Services
E-commerce and Information Technology
Electrical and Computer
Energy and Alternative Energy
Financial Services
Apparel, Footwear and Accessories
Automotive
Chemical and Materials
Consumer Goods and Services
E-commerce and Information Technology
Electrical and Computer
Energy and Alternative Energy
Financial Services
Utilities
Copyright
Baden Law can assist you in protecting your copyrights to computer software, electronic databases, publications, technical materials, instruction materials, drawings, architectural plans and sculptures. We provide proactive advice designed so that proper arrangements are in place to eliminate questions regarding copyright ownership and use before they arise. We conduct company audits to ensure that your rights are protected and to assist in putting procedures in place to maximize rights in the future.
U.S. Federal copyright registrations
Litigation pertaining to copyright enforcement and defense
Opinions on infringement and freedom-to-use
Agreements including work-for-hire, licensing, use and employment rights agreements
Trademarks
Baden Law offers a unique pairing of experience and efficiency for our trademark clients. Baden Law's sophisticated trademark practice helps develop, maintain and protect the trademark portfolios of clients in virtually every industry and geography. Our trademark practice includes the protection of marks, logos, color schemes, product packaging and designs. We assist clients in searches for clearance to use marks and in their adoption and registration. Through the firm’s extensive experience in performing such searches, we help ensure that a client’s adoption of a mark is in good faith and that its use of the mark is likely to survive third party challenges. Baden Law professionals prepare and prosecute trademark and service mark applications for federal registration in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Working with our foreign associates, we obtain registrations throughout the world and we have substantial experience in obtaining international registrations under the Madrid Protocol. Baden Law professionals have extensive experience in contested matters, such as opposition and cancellation actions in the U.S. Patent and Trademark and foreign trademark offices. We concentrate our efforts to obtain appropriate resolutions consistent with your strategic goals
U.S. and international prosecution
Opinions on adoption, infringement, and freedom-to-use
Administrative proceedings including Oppositions and Cancellation Actions
Agreements including trademark licensing
Litigation in enforcing trademark rights or defense in the case of allegations of misuse
Corporate
Baden Law professionals provide practical, results-oriented counsel to businesses in the areas of corporate formation and goverance, related ownership and employment issues, financing, mergers and acquisitions and complex licensing transactions.
We take a hard look at what our clients need in view of their particular circumstances, rather than relying on boilerplate templates like so many other firms. Our experience advising both emerging businesses and established entities reflects a practical understanding of the issues both face, including demands for equity positions, maximizing profits, addressing employment and contractor issues, preserving intellectual property rights, undertaking transaction-oriented due diligence, complying with corporate formalities and regulator requirements.
We represent clients in the structuring of joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing and distributorship arrangements and other forms of transactions that impact our client's valuable intellectual property rights. Our comprehensive business experience allows us to help ensure our clients receive practical advice and a clear understanding of the risks and rewards of different transactions. We have extensive experience assisting clients in preparing for and following through with mergers and acquisitions, negotiating consolidations, reorganizations, and buyouts.
Formation and Ongoing Operations
Technology and Licensing Transactions
Acquisitions and Investments
Trade Secrets
Any confidential business information that has an economic value can be a trade secret as long as you take measures to maintain the secrecy of the information. Customer lists, software, formulas and methods may be trade secrets. Trade secrets can be an important means of protecting intellectual property. We will work with you to implement strategies to protect your trade secrets.
Providing advice on alternatives to patent protection
Developing means to ensure maintenance of secrecy
Drafting agreements to identify and protect rights
Litigating for misappropriation or defending an allegation of trade secret theft
Litigation
Any confidential business information that has an economic value can be a trade secret as long as you take measures to maintain the secrecy of the information. Customer lists, software, formulas and methods may be trade secrets. Trade secrets can be an important means of protecting intellectual property. We will work with you to implement strategies to protect your trade secrets.
Transactions
From the initial conception of inventions through the process of monetizing them, Baden Law has the expertise to construct the agreements necessary to secure and protect the value of clients’ real and intellectual property rights. Different issues of technology ownership arise from the different relationships in which employees, consultants and outside contractors, joint venturers or collaborative research and development partners develop technology. We are sensitive to the pitfalls that you can encounter in these various situations and carefully craft these relationships from the outset to clarify and protect your rights through non‑disclosure agreements, employee invention disclosure and assignment agreements, consulting agreements, non-competition agreements, and research collaboration and joint development agreements. We also guide clients with the technology transfer agreements that are often the key to the successful commercialization of inventions. License agreements, complex assignment transactions, and the underlying due diligence and transfer of rights agreements are just a few of the different commercial relationships that we devise to help clients protect and secure the commercial benefits of their technology and business.
Startups
From the initial conception of inventions through the process of monetizing them, Baden Law has the expertise to construct the agreements necessary to secure and protect the value of clients’ real and intellectual property rights. Different issues of technology ownership arise from the different relationships in which employees, consultants and outside contractors, joint venturers or collaborative research and development partners develop technology. We are sensitive to the pitfalls that you can encounter in these various situations and carefully craft these relationships from the outset to clarify and protect your rights through non‑disclosure agreements, employee invention disclosure and assignment agreements, consulting agreements, non-competition agreements, and research collaboration and joint development agreements. We also guide clients with the technology transfer agreements that are often the key to the successful commercialization of inventions. License agreements, complex assignment transactions, and the underlying due diligence and transfer of rights agreements are just a few of the different commercial relationships that we devise to help clients protect and secure the commercial benefits of their technology and business.
Incorporation filings
Corporate charters, bylaws, and board agreements
Employee and developer agreements
Employee guides and policies
NDAs and non-compete agreements
Corporate name and brand selection and clearance
Trademark and copyright registration and policing
Venture capital financing
Investor agreements
Vesting schedule and capitalization calculations
Due dilligence preparation
Employee and consultant contracts
Trade secret policies and protection
Web development, licensing and marketing agreements
Privacy policies, terms of use, and operating agreements
Litigation in enforcing IP rights or defense in cases of alleged misuse