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Trademark and Unfair Competition Practice

Cook Alex Trademark & Unfair Competition Practice is driven to protect, enforce, defend and maximize clients' brand recognition by representing them on trademark and unfair competition issues.  Cook Alex provides trademark services for the following:

  • Internet domain names
  • Product designs and packaging
  • Brand names, marks, and logos
  • Brand and product colors, shapes and sounds

Cook Alex Trademark and Unfair Competition Practice provides the following services to clients:

  • Protecting
    • Counseling on protecting trademarks
    • Screening proposed trademarks including review of internet domain names
    • Preparing and prosecuting trademark applications in the U.S. and abroad
    • Performing inter-party proceedings
    • Conducting opposition and cancellation proceedings
  • Enforcing & Defending
    • Counseling on enforcing trademarks and litigation avoidance
    • Monitoring and investigating potential infringment including:
      • Trademarks
      • Trade Names
      • Trade Dress
      • Misappropriation
      • False Advertising
      • Defamation
      • Deceptive trade practices
    • Reviewing and counseling on trademark enforcement and strategies
    • Mediating trademarks and unfair competition disputes
    • Litigating trademarks and unfair competition disputes in federal and state courts
    • Enforcing trademarks in foreign countries
  • Maximizing
    • Counseling on maximizing the value of trademarks
    • Providing trademark clearance opinions
    • Advising on appropriate trademark usage for advertising including packaging
    • Negotiating and preparing trademark licensing and assignments