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Our San Francisco intellectual property attorneys & lawyers can help you secure and protect your company-s intellectual property. Whether you are an entrepreneur, artist, author, engineer, manager, or individual - the IP attorneys on UpCounsel have you covered.
There are four common areas of intellectual property, which all protect different things such as: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Additionally, licensing is a popular enough specialization of IP that warrants mentioning.
Our San Francisco IP attorneys that specialize in licensing can help you draft contracts that grant permission to another party to do something with an otherwise protected work or product. A license can grant the right to reproduce the work by: distributed copy of the work to others by rental, sale, or lease, or preparing derivative works using protected expression from the original work, and/or displaying the work.
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Patents - rights granted to inventors for novel and useful inventions.
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Trademarks - rights granted to businesses relating to the branding of their goods and services (company, product, and service names).
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Copyrights - rights granted to authors for tangible expressions of ideas (art, literature, music, software code, architectural plans).
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Trade secrets - rights granted to businesses relating to their unique and valuable
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