Written By: Lawrence A. Maxham A patent applies to a new structure, apparatus, or process that can produce an improved and useful result. Here we are focusing on trademarks. What Qualifies as a Trademark? A trademark is a mark used in trade. A mark can be words, symbols, designs (logos), or a combination that, when…
Areas of Practice The Maxham Firm provides legal services in the field of intellectual property, specializing primarily in patent and trademark law. The Maxham Firm Patent Attorneys provides legal services in the field of intellectual property, specializing primarily in patent and trademark law. Each attorney is a members of the California bar and are registered to…
The Maxham Firm is able to work directly with clients to deeply understand their IP needs and build their ideas into legally protected IP. Our boutique law firm gives you direct access to our experienced attorneys who specialize primarily in patent and trademark law. This direct access means that our attorneys, and support staff, have…
Our firms’ ability to focus on the client has resulted in the issuance of over 1,700 patents, more than 1,200 registered trademarks, and several long term professional relationships. When you need an experienced and knowledgeable lawyer to help with any of your intellectual property needs The Maxham Firm will prove to be a valuable resource…
It is important to thoroughly understand how marks are to be used. A trademark is a word (or several words), a name, a symbol (such as one or more letters, or numbers, or a design), or any combination of these, used to identify and distinguish the goods of a business, and to indicate the source…
If you are doing business beyond the borders of the USA, the copyright laws may be different; it is important to register any trademarks you use abroad to cover the countries in which you are operating or selling, or have The choices for doing so are several. They include: 1) Country-by-country 2) Regions where the…
TRADEMARKS A. THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD OF TRADEMARKS 1. The European Union In the European Union the Community Trademark (CTM) registration system covers all EU countries with a single procedure and results in a single registration. The coverage of the CTM registration will expand along with the EU and any new countries will automatically be included…
CONFLICTS BETWEEN TRADEMARKS AND DOMAIN NAMES The Internet domain name register will effectively register any domain name for a web page address on the Internet that is not identical to a previously registered domain name. Unfortunately the domain name registration takes no account of the class of goods or services associated with the domain name….
