Intellectual property encompasses four areas of the law:  Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets. This law firm can help you in all aspects of each of those areas of the law.

Patents

Mr. Chichester is a Registered Patent Attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Not only can he help you get a patent, but he can help you defend yourself against an allegation of patent infringement.  An extensive patent prosecution career enhances Ron's ability to address legal issues in a wide variety of technical arts, including: computer software (including clustering software, databases, cryptography, graphics, kernels, drivers, instruction sets, internet and server software, and desktop applications), computer systems (including single and multiprocessor servers, PC's, networks, microcontrollers, digital electronic engine control systems and other electrical systems), semiconductor manufacturing (including microcontrollers, electrostatic discharge protection circuits, flash EEPROMs, mask ROM processes, and DRAMs), telecommunications systems and signal processing, and mechanical tools.

Trademarks

Trademarks denote the source of a good or service.  Trademark rights acrue through use (called "common law rights"), and/or via registration with a governmental authority, such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Mr. Chichester can help your company secure rigths in a trademark or service mark.  Moreover, Mr. Chichester is adept at handling legal disputes involving trademarks and Internet domain names.

Copyrights

Copyrights enable authors to secure rights to their respective “original works of authorship,” in literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works.  Copyrights can be realatively inexpensive protection for corporate assets.  This law firm specializes in copyright protection for software and technology-related copyright law, including cyberlaw.  We can help you determine whether copyright protection is desireable.

Trade Secrets

A trade secret is information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process that derives independent economic value (actual or potential) from not being generally known, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by people who could obtain economic value from use or disclosure of the secret.  To keep a trade secret, the owner must be able to take reasonable steps to maintain its secrecy.  This firm can help your company gain and maintain trade secret protection for your critical business applications.  In addition, this