Safeguarding Your Competitive Advantage
Butzel Long has built a responsive, results-oriented IP team that can meet the needs – and exceed the expectations – of clients in industries ranging from automotive to electronics; from high tech to higher education; from fashion to financial services; from consumer products to pharmaceuticals. We have extensive experience helping U.S.-based clients enter the global marketplace, and helping clients from other countries get established in the U.S. Our team works hand-in-hand with other Butzel Long practice groups so that our clients’ intellectual property needs can be integrated with the rest of their legal work.
If your business is based on the manufacture and sale of products developed by your company, or of products for which you have unique manufacturing processes, patent protection can prevent competitors from making or selling similar products or using similar processes.
Safeguarding Your Competitive Advantage
Butzel Long has built a responsive, results-oriented IP team that can meet the needs – and exceed the expectations – of clients in industries ranging from automotive to electronics; from high tech to higher education; from fashion to financial services; from consumer products to pharmaceuticals. We have extensive experience helping U.S.-based clients enter the global marketplace, and helping clients from other countries get established in the U.S. Our team works hand-in-hand with other Butzel Long practice groups so that our clients’ intellectual property needs can be integrated with the rest of their legal work.
If your business is based on the manufacture and sale of products developed by your company, or of products for which you have unique manufacturing processes, patent protection can prevent competitors from making or selling similar products or using similar processes.
Trademark protection can help ensure that the valuable good will associated with your brand stays with you – and can help you guard against “brand identity theft” as well as counterfeit products from overseas.
Copyright protection can safeguard your competitive advantage – in the U.S. and abroad -- in products as diverse as written materials, software, consumer products, and web content.
And if it’s sensitive business information you need to leverage to your competitive advantage, trade secret protection may be the answer.
Experience
Butzel Long’s team members work together to safeguard our clients’ competitive advantage:
- We manage our clients’ intellectual property portfolios from start to finish, including preparing and prosecuting patent, trademark, and copyright applications, and tracking time-critical renewal deadlines and fees
- We protect our clients’ assets against infringement, and help them avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of others, including aggressive and cost-effective litigation and dispute resolution when necessary
- We help our clients exploit their assets in mergers, acquisitions, and licensing
Our experience reaches across the United States and into the Pacific Rim, South America, Europe - wherever our clients' need take us, in industries as varied as automotive, media & entertainment, financial services, fashion, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, and many others.