Trademark Protection and Procurement

Preserve Your Brand

Trademark Protection and Procurement

At NOD Law, our trademark and brand management practice is dedicated to helping clients evaluate the availability and freedom to use what is often their most valuable asset – their name. With a strong team of experienced attorneys, we prepare, file, and maintain hundreds of trademark applications. Our partnerships with a vast array of international firms enable us to protect our clients’ brands worldwide effectively. Our proactive approach includes actively enforcing trademark rights through direct contact with potential infringers, inter partes proceedings at the USPTO, and in U.S. Courts. To ensure ongoing protection, we often implement subscription-based legal services, providing a constant function to attend to these critical enforcement responsibilities.

Our attorneys have effectively managed and protected trademarks for both emerging businesses and established enterprises worldwide and possess extensive knowledge and a history of achieving favorable outcomes in complex trademark disputes for our clients.

Our client accomplishments include handling pivotal trademark litigation, negotiating settlements that preserve brand integrity, and devising comprehensive brand management strategies developed for each client’s unique needs. Our experience spans various industries, ensuring that your brand receives the specific attention it deserves.

Trust us to be your strategic partner in trademark protection and procurement, committed to ensuring comprehensive protection of your intellectual property domestically and internationally.


Trade Secret Processes and Procedure

Safeguarding Your Success

Trade Secret Processes and Procedure

At NOD Law, we understand that a patent may not be the answer to every IP challenge, and that a company’s “secret sauce” can be one of the most valuable components of its intellectual property portfolio. Our experienced attorneys excel in navigating these complexities, providing strategic guidance regarding data and innovations that are difficult to reverse engineer and enforce via traditional patent enforcement.

Determining whether and how to pursue patent or trade secret protection is a critical decision often overlooked during an evaluation of a company’s intellectual property assets. Our team regularly advises clients on the appropriateness and implementation of both strategies, ensuring a balanced approach developed for their unique needs.

Our lawyers bring extensive experience in trade secret law, having successfully guided numerous companies through the development and protection of their proprietary data, processes and procedures. They possess a deep understanding of the legal nuances involved in maintaining trade secrets and are adept at crafting robust policies and practices that safeguard critical business information.

The attorneys at NOD Law leverage their technical expertise and legal insight to provide practical solutions that align with the evolving regulatory landscape, resulting in comprehensive trade secret protection programs designed for clients, thorough audits conducted to identify potential vulnerabilities, and represent companies in crucial trade secret litigation.

Trust us to be your strategic partner in trade secret processes and procedure, ensuring that your company’s valuable secrets remain protected.


Technology Transactions

Profitable Partnerships

Technology Transactions

At NOD Law, we provide guidance in the development, acquisition, and commercialization of technology and intellectual property. Our attorneys have a wealth of experience in counseling clients on how to leverage their intellectual property assets through:

  • strategic licensing
  • collaborative research agreements
  • joint development agreements
  • employee confidentiality agreements and assignment issues
  • trade secret protection
  • internal procedures
  • exit events

Our firm excels in navigating the complexities of technology transactions, ensuring that our clients maximize the value of their innovations while protecting their proprietary information. We partner with numerous area law firms specializing in corporate formation, financing, and contract administration, working collaboratively with these firms and attorneys during significant commercial events in a company’s lifecycle.

Some of the notable achievements of our team include securing favorable terms in complex licensing agreements, structuring joint development projects that drive innovation, and providing strategic counsel during mergers and acquisitions. Their ability to navigate the legal and technical aspects of technology transactions ensures that our clients’ interests are safeguarded, and their goals are achieved.

Trust us to be your strategic partner in technology transactions, committed to the development, acquisition and commercialization of your technology and intellectual property.


Patent Protection & Procurement

Protect Your Potential

Patent Protection & Procurement

Adequately protecting a company’s inventions can be crucial to ensuring a company’s success. Whether the protection helps fuel product sales, leads to additional funding, or establishes the company as a market leader, seeking protection for your valuable assets is a necessary first step towards your final goal.

NOD Law’s team of patent attorneys and patent agents are highly experienced in preparing, filing, and prosecuting both U.S. and foreign patent applications. Our team frequently works to secure valuable patents on behalf of both large multinational corporations, startups raising capital, and established regional organizations seeking to energize their growth. Through our collaborative culture, we work with your team to develop the process necessary to obtain your desired outcome. Although this process to obtaining an issued patent may differ depending on the size of the entity, the goal remains the same: to ensure that any patent that issues provides strategic value to the organization.

Trust us to be your partner in patent protection and procurement, committed to safeguarding your innovations and driving your business forward.


IP Litigation

Sometimes Innovation Requires Litigation

Intellectual Property Litigation

At NOD Law, our litigation team is proficient in all aspects of litigating complex intellectual property cases and general commercial disputes in state and federal courts, including:

  • breach of contract
  • counterfeit goods
  • false advertising
  • unfair competition
  • misappropriation of trade secrets
  • patents
  • trademarks
  • copyright infringement

Our experienced attorneys provide pre-litigation counseling and effective dispute resolution strategies to safeguard your interests and achieve favorable outcomes that align with your goals.

By maintaining strong relationships with regional and national law firms, as well as experienced trial lawyers across the country, we ensure that your case is staffed with the right professionals. This collaborative approach allows us to offer comprehensive litigation services that address every stage of a case, from initial analysis to trial.

Our litigation services cover:

  • Initial case analysis and diligence
  • Damages assessment
  • Discovery
  • Expert witness engagement and preparation
  • Depositions
  • Hearing and motion practice
  • Pre-trial procedure and trial

We bring a wealth of experience and a track record of success in litigation. We have represented clients in high-stakes intellectual property disputes, securing favorable verdicts and settlements. Our lawyers are adept at navigating complex legal issues, conducting thorough discovery, and presenting compelling arguments in court.

Trust us to be your strategic litigation partner, committed to securing favorable verdicts and settlements aligned with your company’s strategic goals.


General Counsel Services

Fractional Solutions For Full Impact

General Counsel Services

At NOD Law, we offer specialized outsourced services for growing companies that would benefit from a general counsel but do not have the resources or workload to justify a full-time position. We work with our clients in providing board secretary services and offer clients the option of regular hours at the client’s facility to facilitate integration with the company’s management team. A consistent legal presence ensures a reliable and approachable source of legal guidance for the entire company.

Our General Counsel Services include:

  • Management and responsibility for recurring day-to-day legal tasks
  • Oversight of larger ongoing outside legal projects such as (i) strategic alliances, (ii) agreement due diligence across sales, manufacturing, IT, finance, etc., (iii) litigation, and (iv) technology & IP development
  • Ongoing legal training for company management and staff, including issue awareness and the incorporation of best practices for legal risk management

By implementing fixed monthly fees for these ongoing services, we help companies maintain predictable legal expenses while drawing on a constant source of expert legal advice.

Trust us to be your strategic partner through our general counsel services working together to realize the greatest possible success and growth of your company.


Design Protection

Secure Your Vision

Design Protection

At NOD Law, we understand design law.

We understand that proper design protection can be the strongest protection you can have for your product. We understand how to use design patents to prevent your competitors from using your novel design features while ensuring your protection isn’t tied to the generic aspects of your product. We understand design protection is not limited to design patents and take steps to ensure our clients rely upon copyright protection, trade dress protection, and utility patent protection to secure the proper protection for their unique designs.

Our attorneys understand design law for consumer products. We understand design law for software. For manufacturing systems. Astrophysical products. You name it, we’ve likely protected a design in your field of use. However, we haven’t protected your design… yet.

At NOD Law, we understand design law. Let us help you protect your designs.


Anti-Counterfeiting and Fraud Avoidance

Stop Problems Before They Start

Anti-Counterfeiting and Fraud Avoidance

At NOD Law, our Anti-counterfeiting and Fraud Avoidance practice is dedicated to protecting your brand and protecting your market position. From comprehensive brand monitoring to online marketplace investigations, we help identify, monitor, and take down infringing or otherwise inappropriate goods that threaten your brand’s integrity.

Our services extend to customs and border patrol registration and enforcement, working closely with authorities to prevent counterfeit goods from entering the market. Additionally, we coordinate with our extensive network of associates around the world, providing global protection for your brand.

We possess extensive experience in anti-counterfeiting and fraud avoidance. Our team works diligently to ensure the removal of counterfeit goods from the marketplace and mitigate the impact of fraudulent activities on your business. We have orchestrated large-scale takedowns of counterfeit networks, implemented robust brand protection strategies, and navigated complex international enforcement actions.

By leveraging the technical know-how and legal acumen of our attorneys, we ensure that your brand remains protected from counterfeiters and fraudsters. Our proactive approach and global strategic partnerships enable us to offer unparalleled support in safeguarding your intellectual property.

Trust us to be your strategic partner in anti-counterfeiting and fraud avoidance, committed to safeguarding your brand and securing your competitive edge in the marketplace.

Anti-Counterfeiting Team