Erickson Kernell IP, LLC, focuses its practice exclusively in the field of intellectual property law – patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names and trade secrets. We assist our clients in acquiring, licensing and enforcing their intellectual property rights and avoiding and defending infringement actions.

Actively protecting your trademarks is becoming increasingly important as continued expansion of the internet and globalization increase the risk that another company already has or will adopt a confusingly similar mark. Registering your trademark provides numerous advantages including providing prima facie evidence of the validity of your claim of rights in the mark. Such evidence can be critical to convincing infringers to cease infringing activity, to establish a claim of prior rights in a domain name over a squatter, obtaining the assistance of website operators to remove listings for infringing goods or enlisting the services of US Customs to prevent the importation of counterfeit goods.

Registering a trademark may seem relatively straight forward, but there are pitfalls for the unwary. Issues including correctly identifying the applicant, how to describe the goods or services, whether to register the words alone or a logo version of a mark and what constitutes use in commerce may seem simple but when approached incorrectly can add to the cost of registering a mark or increase the likelihood that registration will be refused. Relying on our considerable experience in searching, registering and litigating trademarks in a wide variety of industries we can assist you in effectively and efficiently registering and managing your trademark portfolio.