Cline Williams offers a broad range of services in the area of intellectual property, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and related areas such as antitrust and NIL. We guide businesses and individuals through the creation, maintenance, and protection of their IP; provide expertise on building a successful and robust strategy for clients’ IP portfolios; and offer premiere IP litigation services before courts and administrative agencies around the country. Cline Williams serves a wide range of national and international clients with IP matters, including colleges and universities; health care institutions; bio, life, and veterinary science companies; software and web development companies; startups; and authors and publishers.
Our litigation services include:
- Patent rights enforcement and defense against claims of patent infringement
- Trademark, service mark, trade dress, and tradename disputes, including related claims such as unfair business practices
- Misappropriation of trade secrets
- Oppositions, cancellations, and concurrent use proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
- Copyright infringement
- Domain name disputes and claims under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
- Contractual disputes involving IP licenses and agreements
- Antitrust matters
Our transactional services include:
- Trademark clearance and registration at federal and state levels
- Licensing, transfer, acquisition, and asset management across all IP categories, including franchising
- Development and implementation of tailored solutions to protect confidential and proprietary business information including drafting and enforcing nondisclosure agreements and trade secret policies
- Review, preparation, and negotiation of agreements for commercializing trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and patents
- Copyright clearance, registration, licensing, and transfer for original creative works
- Technology transfers from colleges and universities
- NIL agreements for athletes
- Consulting on IP best practices
- Website development, hosting, and related contracts
- Negotiating and drafting publishing agreements for musicians, authors, film producers, and software developers
