Trademarks

NEW YORK LAWYERS REP­RE­SENT­ING IN MAN­HAT­TAN, BROOK­LYN, BRONX AND LONG ISLAND

Trade­mark is brand recog­ni­tion like logos, marks, labels and names that dis­tin­guish goods and ser­vices in the mar­ket­place. If some­one delib­er­ately uses your reg­is­tered trade­mark, with­out your knowl­edge or con­sent, they may be guilty of the crime of counterfeiting.

It is unlaw­ful to apply a reg­is­tered trade­mark to goods, or to make an exact copy of goods, that have the ben­e­fit of a reg­is­tered trade­mark reg­is­tra­tion, with­out the per­mis­sion of the trade­mark owner. Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion marks are those on arti­cles — when reg­is­tered = ® and unregistered = ™.

Even where goods are not sub­ject to a trade­mark reg­is­tra­tion, it is some­times still pos­si­ble to bring an action against some­one mak­ing copies of goods, or attach­ing marks to goods, with­out the per­mis­sion of the per­son already trad­ing in those goods and asso­ci­ated marks. This is called a “passing-ff” action.

TRADE­MARK PRO­TEC­TION LAWYERS

At the New York City law firm DeTof­fol & Asso­ciates, we help indi­vid­u­als and busi­nesses stop the mak­ing, sell­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion of stolen like­ness, fake and coun­ter­feit mer­chan­dise and more. Our found­ing lawyer David DeTof­fol is a for­mer United States patent lawyer. His back­ground means that he knows how to build a case that can pro­tect our clients’ interests.

We han­dle trade­mark infringe­ment cases involving:

  • Piracy or unli­censed prod­ucts: not nec­es­sar­ily pack­aged in the same way as the orig­i­nal but sold like the orig­i­nal or some­thing just as good as the original
  • Coun­ter­feit­ing and imi­ta­tions:usu­ally made with the intent of fraud­u­lently pass­ing it off as gen­uine. Coun­ter­feit prod­ucts are often pro­duced with the intent to take advan­tage of the estab­lished worth of the imi­tated product.

CALL AN EXPE­RI­ENCED INTEL­LEC­TUAL PROP­ERTY ATTORNEY

Con­tact DeTof­fol & Asso­ciates today at (212) 962−2220 to dis­cuss your trade­mark infringe­ment case. You can also send us an e-mail to sched­ule your ini­tial consultation