Trademark & Copyright

Moore & Van Allen’s trademark and copyright team provides a full range of trademark services which include brand counseling and trademark strategy, trademark searches and registrability opinions, trademark prosecution, policing of marks, oppositions and cancellations of competing marks, and due diligence.  Our team also provides complete copyright services, including counseling, registration, licensing and due diligence.

In addition, we maintain a sophisticated trademark management system that tracks prosecution and maintenance deadlines, currently managing more than 4,000 registered domestic and foreign marks on behalf of our clients with nearly 1,000 pending domestic and foreign applications.  We also make use of highly rated independent screening, search and investigative resources, where appropriate.

Trademark Prosecution

Our attorneys and staff handle the entire trademark process from filing applications, responding to office actions, and defending against oppositions, through to registration and beyond by maintenance of registered marks.  Further, we assist clients in developing a trademark strategy which is tailored to their needs for protection, determining which marks would be best suited for registration.

International

To benefit and best serve those clients with international interests and needs, we leverage our ongoing working relationships with highly qualified intellectual property practitioners and agents in virtually every country in the world.  As a result, we have significant experience in the European Union and its member countries, virtually every country in the Americas, China, India and most other Pacific Rim and Asian countries.  We have prosecuted foreign applications in individual foreign nations and also through the Madrid Protocol and Community Trademark systems.

news

• Hanks, Ward, Wilson and MVA Receive WTR 1000 Recognition
• Best Lawyers® recognizes 83 Moore & Van Allen attorneys
• Moore & Van Allen recognized by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers with top-tier ‘Best Law Firms’ rankings
• Fuierer Teaches UNC Law Class

Events

• IP Hosts "MVA Talks" Seminar
• Ward & Ransom to Speak at NCBF IP Event
• Employment & IP Hold "Game Plan" Seminars
• Members Participate in Business Court CLE & Luncheon

Publications

• IP Team Authors Chapter for Westlaw Publication
  November 2014, World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies

  Several of MVA's IP attorneys assisted in authoring and updating a chapter published within Thomson Reuters Westlaw's World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies.

• ICANN Approves New gTLD Program
  July 2011, Intellectual Property Client Update

  ICANN's approval of the gTLD expansion could change the domain game as we know it. How might it impact your business?