“Clients often come to me with a new technology or they want to protect a discrete component or aspect of a product but aren’t sure of the best way to do it. It could be designs for handbags, shoes, and packaging or it could be computer icons, the layout of computer graphics, or user interfaces. They don’t know whether they should seek a trademark, a copyright, or a design patent and, in many cases, the answer may be all three.”
James D. Weinberger
“I love helping clients solve their IP problems by looking at the commercial perspective. There’s sometimes a tendency to ‘silo’ our work, as though there were a strict division between copyright protection and trademark protection. But that’s not how the world works and how creative, intangible property appears in the marketplace. Seeing the big picture helps me work to craft practical, commercially viable solutions that clients want and need.”