Marshalltown Intellectual Property Attorneys & Lawyers
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Ross Brandborg
Ali Shalchi
Michael Wieser
Eric Alspaugh
Vincent Van Houden
Samuel Pierce
Ken Emanuelson
Roberto (Bobby) Escobar
Carver Farrow
Stephanie Emanuel
Marshalltown Intellectual Property Lawyers
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Our Marshalltown 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 Marshalltown 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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