IP, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Services

Clear, practical legal services—so you can keep building while I protect what’s next.
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Core IP

Patents

Patent Drafting & Filing

Provisional, utility, and design applications with claims built for business goals. Full USPTO filing and foreign coordination.

Patent Prosecution

Office action responses, examiner interviews, continuations/divisionals/CIPs, and allowance strategy.

Patentability & FTO

Prior-art searches, patentability opinions, and freedom-to-operate/clearance to reduce launch risk.

Portfolio & Transactions

Portfolio build-out, competitive mapping, valuation snapshots, licensing and deal support.

Trademarks

Clearance & Knockout Searches

USPTO, state registries, and common-law checks with risk calls and filing strategy.

Trademark Filing & Prosecution

TEAS filings, specimens, ID crafting, Office Action responses, and ITU/SOU/extension workflow.

Monitoring & Enforcement

Watching services, marketplace/social takedowns, cease-and-desist, and settlements.

TTAB Matters

Oppositions, cancellations, extensions, and evidence strategy aligned to your brand plan.

Copyright

Copyright Registration

Single and group registrations for software, media, and marketing assets with best-evidence deposits.

DMCA & Enforcement

DMCA notices/counter-notices, platform complaints, and pragmatic settlement frameworks.

Content & Software Licensing

Work-for-hire, contributor agreements, and inbound/outbound licenses for growth and compliance.

Fair-Use & Risk Reviews

Publication risk calls and practical guidance on transformative use and commentary/education.

AI & Emerging Tech

AI Legal Services

AI Product Compliance & Risk Readiness

Readiness checks for your models and AI features against major frameworks and laws (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF/GenAI profile). You get a gap list, a prioritized fix plan, internal policy docs, model cards, impact/risk assessments, and partner-ready playbooks.

AI Data, Training-Set & Content Licensing

Clean rights to scrape, purchase, or ingest data. Publisher/dataset licenses, contributor agreements, output use terms, and safe-harbor language for synthetic data. Copyright registration plans for human-authored parts of mixed works.

Copyright for AI-Assisted Works & Registrations

Go/no-go calls on registrability. Correct disclosure of AI assistance, filing tactics to preserve human authorship, and appeals where warranted.

AI Inventorship & Patent Strategy

Claim drafting for AI-assisted inventions, correct inventorship decisions, disclosure practices that avoid pitfalls, and filing roadmaps for models, workflows, and applied systems.

AI in Hiring & HR Audits

Bias-audit readiness, notices, vendor terms, and deployment memos for automated employment decision tools. Practical guidance for Oregon employers hiring nationwide (including NYC AEDT-style rules).

Generative AI Marketing & FTC Substantiation

Pre-release review of AI-related claims, substantiation files, disclosures, endorsements/reviews hygiene, and “hot claim” response plans—especially helpful for founders tempted to promise magic.

Deepfakes, Voice Clones & Right of Publicity

Consent frameworks for creators, takedown/enforcement playbooks, and product terms that keep user features legal. Includes voice/likeness coverage with a multi-state strategy (e.g., Tennessee’s ELVIS-style approach).

Healthcare AI & FDA Pathways

Device classification calls, PCCP strategy for adaptive models, submission checklists, and post-market change plans for AI features in SaMD.

AI Safety, Security & Incident Response

Red-team/eval clauses in vendor deals, misuse/abuse playbooks, and documentation mapped to NIST GenAI profile expectations for partner diligence.

Open-Source AI, Model Licenses & API Terms

Clearance for using open models/datasets, attribution practices, and business terms for shipping a model or API—rate limits, safety gates, and downstream responsibility.

AI in Contracts & Commercial Deals

Master service terms that address training on customer data, confidentiality for prompts/outputs, SLAs for model drift, and indemnities tailored to AI risks.

AI in Products for Kids & Schools

COPPA and student-data mapping for AI features, guardian disclosures, and a marketing/approval plan that will pass a school-district review.

AI Governance for Startups

Lightweight policy, approval flows that match reality, roles and record-keeping, and a founder-friendly board template. NIST GenAI profile references included for partner credibility.

Creator, Influencer & Studio AI Packages

Creator-friendly licenses for training/cloning, watermark/provenance language, and fast takedowns for unauthorized clones across streaming and socials—starting with voice likeness coverage and expanding by state.

AI Ethics & Impact Statements for Public Bids

Procurement-ready disclosures, risk mitigations, and compliance matrices aligned to current public frameworks—so your bid doesn’t die on paperwork.