Intellectual Property
Krevolin & Horst provides a full range of services to protect intellectual property. We understand that a company’s most valuable asset is often intangible.
About
Our corporate team is adept at helping clients extract value from their intellectual property. We often represent smaller companies in negotiations with larger companies and assert and protect our clients’ interests without delaying transactions.
Our litigators are experts at ensuring that others do not derive value from your intellectual property without paying for it. We have experience aggressively defending accusations of intellectual property theft or use. We bring decades of experience to intellectual property disputes, including trade secrets, copyright infringement, and trademark disputes. We provide a practical approach to resolving disputes, with the goal of getting our client to a resolution and back to business as usual.
Service Highlights
Companies regularly find significant benefits to sharing their intellectual property. Our corporate team has experience:
- Licensing software or system-access rights to customers.
- Granting another company the right to use a patented invention.
- Negotiation, documentation, and implementation phases of software and technology development, acquisition, licensing, and sales including agreements relating to:
- Terms of Use
- Reseller, Referral and OEM arrangements
- Software as a Service (SAAS)
- Open Source Software
- Website and Software Development
- Data Center Access and Use
- Cloud Computing
- Outsourcing arrangements covering software development, training, service, call centers, and data processing facilities.
- Registration and protection of trademarks.
- Employment agreements that protect from employee theft of company IP and company time.
Unlike many business litigators, Krevolin & Horst attorneys are true trial attorneys and approach disputes with the end goal in mind—winning at trial. We have deep experience defending and protecting IP rights, frequently addressing issues on an emergency or injunctive basis. Our litigators have experience defending and prosecuting claims for:
- Theft of trade secrets under the S. Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) and Georgia Trade Secrets Act (“GTSA”).
- Copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq.
- Trademark infringement claims under the Lanham Act 15 U.S.C. § 1114, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a).
- Claims related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC § 512.
Efficiency
Krevolin & Horst is a close-knit team of skilled attorneys who have come together to provide efficient legal services at the highest level. We staff our intellectual property matters with experienced attorneys who get the work done for our clients in an effective and cost-effective way. We frequently consult cross-team to ensure the best legal advice for our clients.
