PRACTICE

Copyrights

Overview

PierFerd’s Copyrights Practice Group understands the value of your creative works and the importance of protecting them from unauthorized use, infringement, and exploitation. Whether you are an author, artist, musician, filmmaker, software developer, or any other type of content creator, we can help you secure, enforce, and monetize your copyright interests.

  • A Wide Array of Technical Fields

    The Intellectual Property Team is comprised of practitioners in a wide array of technical fields, including:  mechanical, medtech, chemistry, biotech, biochemistry, pharmaceutical, electrical, and computer hardware and software, handling patent prosecution services including patent application preparation and prosecution before the United States, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), and foreign examining authorities utilizing known vendors for assistance.

  • Comprehensive IP Solutions

    Our range of services encompasses copyright matters, domain name registration, domestic and international, due diligence, intellectual property licensing, patent prosecution, trademark portfolio management, and trademark prosecution.  We also handle intellectual property agreements; licensing, including master subscription and license agreements; trade secret advice, agreements, and enforcement; provide strategic IP counseling; conduct intellectual property audits; provide clearance for patents and trademarks’ and manage patent and trademark portfolios.  PierFerd is also adept at patent prosecution, representing individual inventors to Fortune 100 companies.

  • Experience with Clients of all Sizes

    Our IP partners have decades of experience counseling clients of all sizes—from international corporations to entrepreneurs and early-stage companies—in IP portfolio development, management, monetization, enforcement, and risk mitigation.

  • Collaborative Approach to IP Protections

    Our IP partners regularly work together as a seamless team, helping our clients find the most practical and efficient solutions to their IP legal and business opportinities and challenges. The goal is comprehensive and tailored IP strategies that maximize protection and prepares clients for successful funding rounds, partnering, and commercialization.

Capabilities

Our Copyrights Team covers a wide range of services, including registration, licensing, litigation, counseling, and transactional support. We have extensive experience in dealing with complex and emerging issues in the digital age, such as fair use, DMCA, online platforms, social media, streaming, and piracy. We also advise clients on cross-border and international aspects of copyright law, such as treaties, conventions, and foreign enforcement. No matter what your copyright needs are, we are ready to provide you with strategic, practical, and cost-effective solutions.