Intellectual Property and Technology

ELP understands the exponentially increasing value of intellectual property as a business asset in an era of unprecedented technological and new media advancement, and we are highly skilled at protecting and exploiting these rights on behalf of all of our clients. Towards this end, ELP offers our client base a complete range of services that includes all facets of intellectual property protection, licensing, counseling, and mark registration, including business-oriented strategies and solutions to complex problems.  

More specifically:

• Expertise in traditional IP areas, such as copyrights, trademarks and trade secret protection.
• Counsel concerning the development, maintenance and licensing of rights of publicity, life rights, literary and music rights of publication, trade secrets, business processes, databases, online content distribution, product placement, script clearance and idea protection and misappropriation.
• Insight concerning the protection and exploitation of emerging technology in a myriad of fields that includes software applications, hardware, new media, database law, and Internet issues ranging from business plan protection to domain name protection and e-commerce.
• Addressing piracy concerns domestically and internationally for clients in the online, music, film, video game, digital and wireless sectors.