Litigation: Enforcing and defending IP rights requires quick and decisive action
At Valadares Law Group, we work quickly and efficiently to protect and enforce our clients' intellectual property rights, while being mindful of costs. Trust the lawyers at Valadares Law Group to get the legal results your business needs.
For today's companies, intellectual property can be a source of both major revenue and considerable risk. As trade secret disputes, patent infringement and trademark counterfeiting become more common, companies recognize they need to have an efficient, creative and effective litigation team at their service. At Valadares Law Group, we make it our highest priority to provide companies with multiple options to protect and enforce their IP rights in an effort to avoid formal litigation proceedings. However, when litigation is strategically necessary, or unavoidable, our lawyers represent clients zealously and efficiently in all types of intellectual property disputes before the Federal and Ontario courts as well as before administrative tribunals.
Lawyers at Valadares Law Group have served clients legal needs by:
- Enforcing Canadian trademark rights against infringing use of the mark in a commercial aired in the United States
- Overturning several Patent Office rejections to allow our clients to enter the PCT National Phase and continue prosecution
- Defending inventors whose specific contributions to patented inventions were contested by the patent owners
- Pursuing the competitor of a food manufacturer who used its trademark rights in unauthorized advertising campaigns
- Enforcing trademark and industrial design rights regarding a unique bottle shape and "get up"
- Establishing prior invention rights (under the pre-1989 Patent Act) before the Patent Office
- Advising on the enforcement of a lottery patent in multiple U.S. jurisdictions
- Upholding the trademark rights of a charity
- Pursuing a clothing manufacturer for patent infringement
- Advising an investor on the risks of acquiring an industrial equipment company that was engaged in patent litigation