Cha & Reiter, LLC provides comprehensive services relating to the protection of our clients’ trademarks, service marks, and trade names. Trademark issues are areas of growing importance to our clients in today’s globally competitive marketplace. We possess an exceptional level of expertise necessary to guide and advise our clients through these extremely complex areas of the law.

Our trademark attorneys aggressively protect our clients’ interests by:

• Conducting expeditious searches to determine the availability and registrability of proposed trademarks and service marks.
• Prosecuting applications to register trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and state administrative agencies, including appeals to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
• Enforcing trademark, service mark, and trade name rights, and obtaining compliance from infringers through negotiation or, if necessary.

Cha & Reiter, LLC is active in protecting our clients’ creative expression such as literary, musical, sculptural, pictorial, graphic, and dramatic works; motion pictures, databases, technical and architectural designs, computer software and other audiovisual works. We assist in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of patent and copyright protection to determine the most appropriate way of protecting our clients’ valuable works. We conduct relevant searches and prepare applications for copyright registration; render opinions on infringement, copyrightability, fair use, ownership and title, and notice; draft and negotiate agreements related to copyrighted works; and enforce and defend copyright registrations, including negotiation and preparation of license agreements.