Intellectual Property

The attorneys at McConnell & Sneed, LLC in Atlanta, Georgia, have extensive experience protecting the intellectual property interests of our business clients.  Intellectual property protection is crucial in today’s business world.  Trademarks and copyrights are valuable intellectual property.  The firm assists clients with intellectual property planning and strategy, including but not limited to, drafting and reviewing privacy policies and licensing agreements, negotiating intellectual property issues between parties, and generally providing advice and guidance with respect to protection of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Our attorneys assist clients with trademark, copyright, domain name, and trade secret protection.  We have attorneys who can file trademark applications on an international, federal and/or state basis. With respect to trademark and copyright protection, we represent clients anywhere throughout the United States.

With respect to trademarks, our attorneys assist clients with searches and clearance matters, application preparation, prosecution and maintenance, specimen development, enforcement and monitoring, portfolio management, representation in United States Patent and Trademark Office proceedings, including notices of opposition and cancellation proceedings. 

With respect to copyrights, our attorneys have prepared copyright registration for matters such as literary works, musical works, dramatic works, pantomime and choreographic works, pictorial, graphic and sculptural works, motion pictures and other audiovisual works, sound recordings, and architectural works.  

Here at McConnell & Sneed, we take a pro-active approach with respect to intellectual property matters on behalf of our clients. We alert our clients with respect to intellectual property issues at the start of their ventures rather than when problems arise or it is too late to act.  We aggressively strive to protect client intellectual property.  If clients come to us midstream in their intellectual property protection efforts, we do our best to recognize the issues at hand and act quickly in our clients’ best interests.

If you believe we may be of assistance to you with respect to your intellectual property matters and you wish to discuss your matter with an experienced attorney without any charge or obligation, contact our office.