Dallas Intellectual Property Lawyer

Are you involved in a dispute over intellectual property?

Disputes over intellectual property can cost you lost income and hold up production. Avoid these costly disputes by having a Dallas civil lawyer prepare a legally binding contract for your company to use when hiring employees. The term intellectual property applies to creative ideas and design work and, if you are in a field where this is your bread and butter, then you it is necessary to ensure that you take the proper legal steps to protect your intellectual property. Intellectual property is governed by trademark, patent and copyright laws.

You can also protect your company's interests by having employees sign a no-competition clause in their employment contract which would make it a breach of contract for them to share or disclose any ideas to another party. It is also possible to keep them from going into a business that would be in direct competition with your business for a specified time after they left your employ. Contracts can be drafted that protect all ideas or design work that they come up with while working as your employee. At the Mathur Law Offices, P.C., we help our client's businesses to avoid disputes over intellectual property by creating the right legal contracts for them to use with their employees.

Intellectual Property Attorney in Dallas

Other considerations in dealing with intellectual property concern the use of trademarks and copyrights. You need to have filed a trademark to protect your ownership of a name or brand and we help our clients to do trademark searches, file copyrights and patents. Ensuring that your patents are in place and that you are protected is critical in the current business environment. Filing a patent can be a complicated and involved process and it is best to have a knowledgeable lawyer handle this for you. We are very skilled in this area of business and prepared to handle any issue involving intellectual property both in drafting contracts, breach of contract issues and litigation in court.