Our objective is attempted protection of the client's technology & business, and taking advantage of tax provisions in the client's startup & ongoing business, licensing, & end of business cycle. We recommend asset protection where possible, and the purchase of insurance for patent infringement (which can help to put the client in a more secure position versus competitors). We are generally not an IP litigating firm, as we are focused upon helping clients to conserve & preserve their holdings rather than cause litigation drainage. We want to talk with people who need help in creating and protecting intellectual property and in helping the client take advantage of tax provisions benefiting them.
We specialize in high tech utility & design patents generally, in addition to our emphasis on taxation. Technical areas include electrical engineering, chemical engineering, & mechanical engineering. We also handle tax problems, and especially intellectual property tax problems relating to patents and trademarks. We are one of the few sibling based patent law partnerships with offices in California and Georgia. We offer FREE TELEPHONE CONSULTATION and are anxious to ascertain your problem and to make suggestions to to help, whether or not we are hired by you. Our firm offers FREE monthly tax related CLE lectures seen at our website under "CLE" and invite the interested public, as well as Attorneys, CPA's, & Enrolled agents who are given continuing education credits. We are accredited by the California State Bar and the Internal Revenue Service to offer these continuing education credits. Speakers include both ourselves and a mixture of various tax experts in a variety of tax & legal related areas. Please check out our monthly lectures for a topic of interest to you!
We try to help every client start business the right way, select the proper trademark which is not descriptive of the goods and services, preferably not a dictionary term, no last names, no geographics and neither scandalous nor closely related to another mark. Why? Because such a mark will: (1) maximize goodwill. (2) Reduce the probability of trademark lawsuits, the cost to you of which are NOT DEDUCTIBLE, (3) Reduce the probability of confusion and having the return from advertising expenditures end up in your competitors pockets, and (4) Maximize the tax effects and the control effects at the end of your business life so that a low tax rate sale (capital gains if possible), or a more secure sale (owner financed if need be) is achieved. If a bad mark, the costs include non-deductible litigation, loss of goodwill, confusion, reduced return on advertising and other disadvantages. Our objective is all of these things, as well as a smooth trademark application process.