All intellectual property rights are protected under the more general heading of unfair compeition. In addition to the traditional Intellectual Property protections, listed below, unfair competition laws protect against wrongful or fraudulent business methods used to gain any unfair advantage over competitors.

Traditional intellectual property rights generally fall into three categories:

• Trademarks which protect the goodwill associated with a good or service
• Patents which protect an invention
• Copyrights which protect authorship

As you can read in our Trademark section and Patent section, our practice reaches beyond the United States to over 65 countries.