Lathrop & Gage’s intellectual property attorneys help clients protect and defend their copyrights through counseling, licensing and, if necessary, litigation. Lathrop & Gage can help your company build upon and protect its copyright portfolio by identifying your company's copyrightable material, such as software, training manuals and website content and helping to secure registration rights in those copyrights through applications filed with the Copyright Office.  Our firm will also vigorously protect your company's copyrights by shutting down websites from making unauthorized use of your company's copyrights through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or initiating litigation for infringement in federal court. Our attorneys have the knowledge and breadth of experience to build and protect your company's copyright assets. We have experienced outstanding results in copyright litigation, including successfully defending clients such as Yahoo!, Payless ShoeSource and Andrews McMeel Universal.