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Intellectual Property

The McCarthy Fingar Team

McCarthy Fingar’s Intellectual Property group represents corporate and individual clients in all aspect of intellectual property law, including rights embodied in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, domain names, rights of publicity, rights of privacy and moral rights. Our Intellectual Property attorneys bring many years of experience to a broad range of client needs and assist on a wide range of legal and business issues. We counsel clients in securing their intellectual property rights, and in protecting their property rights in litigation when a right is or may be infringed by a third party.

Representative Transactions

A sampling of the work of our attorneys in this area includes the following:

  • Supporting inventors and inventive companies in determining the patentability of inventions, and obtaining patent protection in the United States and internationally for their inventions through the preparation, filing, prosecution and maintenance of patent applications and issued patents.
  • Searching, obtaining and monitoring trademark and service marks for companies to protect their important brands.
  • Evaluating validity and infringement issues related to intellectual property assets and rights, including providing opinions in connection with a variety of intellectual property related assets to support corporate activity, lending, due diligence and litigation.
  • Working with our Business Litigation group, litigating intellectual property law matters in the Federal and State courts and in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Licensing assets and rights related to intellectual property, including those involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, mask works and rights of publicity and privacy.
  • Reviewing advertising and other commercial speech for copyright and trademark clearance issues.

McCarthy Fingar's Leadership in the Community

McCarthy Fingar's lawyers are often in the news and are frequent lecturers on many different topics. Click at news to see what our lawyers are doing, including their professional speaking engagements. Click at publications to see the different professional written materials of our lawyers.

McCarthy Fingar's Representative Cases

The lawyers in McCarthy Fingar's Intellectual Property group have experience in many different types of transactions and cases. Click at representative matters for a description of some of their work.

Contact Us

McCarthy Fingar's Intellectual Property lawyers are dedicated to our clients' success. If you think you may require our assistance or have any questions, please contact Peter D. Aufrichtig by email (peter@mccarthyfingar.com) or phone (914-385-1063).