400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Construction Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Bankruptcy
909 Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112
Practice Areas : Intellectual Property
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Consumer Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Intellectual Property
3433 Hwy 190, Mandeville, Louisiana, 70471
Practice Areas : Arbitration & Mediation
Northlake Corporate Park, Suite 103, Covington, Louisiana, 70433
Practice Areas : Employment Law
301 Main Street, Suite 2300, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70821-3197
Practice Areas : Business Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Business Law
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Intellectual property attorneys protect and enforce rights in inventions, brands and creative work: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing and technology transfer agreements, and infringement litigation.
The field divides more sharply than most. Prosecuting a patent before the USPTO requires a separately registered patent attorney or agent with a technical background; trademark, copyright and trade secret work does not. IP litigation is its own discipline again.
Before you hire
- Match the specialism to the asset. A firm that files trademarks brilliantly may not be the right one for a software patent or a trade secret injunction.
- Deal with rights before disclosure. Public disclosure, sale or offer for sale can destroy patent rights, and unregistered marks are harder and costlier to enforce.
- Ask what a clearance search costs and what it does and does not rule out.
- Put ownership in writing with employees and contractors. Who owns the code, the artwork or the design is a routine and avoidable dispute.
Patents and trademarks have their own categories in this directory for attorneys focused on one of them.
Intellectual Property: frequently asked questions
What is intellectual property law?
Intellectual property law protects creations of the mind. In the United States it has four main branches: patents for inventions, copyright for original works, trademarks for brand identifiers, and trade secrets for valuable confidential information. Each has different requirements, different terms and different enforcement routes.