Lathrop & Gage handles all aspects of intellectual property issues that confront growing as well as established companies. Our attorneys are heavily involved in the registration of trademarks and service marks for hundreds of clients. We also serve these clients in special trademark proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office such as oppositions, cancellations, and appeals.  Although the bulk of our practice involves securing and maintaining trademark registrations in the United States, we also assist clients who have significant portfolios of marks overseas and routinely deal with trademark registrations in  the European community and a host of other foreign jurisdictions.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in searching and clearing marks for adoption and use by our clients and then filing and prosecuting applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all the way through appeal.  Our firm's expertise is in protecting and enforcing our clients’ rights against infringers, whether in courts across the country or in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the Patent and Trademark Office. 

In addition, our attorneys manage the international registration programs of multi-national companies by providing expert guidance in prosecuting applications and managing worldwide litigations effecting trademark rights abroad by instructing foreign associates in infringement matters.  As to litigation in the United States, our attorneys have experience in all varieties of trademark-related cases from trademark infringement to false advertising, from unfair competition to dilution, and from cybersquatting to trade dress infringement.  Our attorneys are heavily involved in protecting client brands through policing efforts not only through demand letters to brick-and-mortar infringers but also in cyberspace, including stopping Internet scams and frauds, terminating unauthorized online auctions, counseling on First Amendment and fair use issues and participating in domain name proceedings against cybersquatters before the World Intellectual Property Organization.  In addition, our attorneys have expertise in counseling on licensing and franchising issues.