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Intellectulaw™
Law Offices of P.B. Tufariello, P.C.

25 Little Harbor Rd.
Mt. Sinai NY, 11766
Phone (631) 476.8734
Fax (631) 476.8737

Nationwide & International Trademark Attorneys

New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut and Long Island including Nassau & Suffolk County

What can I use to help consumers identify me as the source of my goods, and/or my services in commerce? Can I use a name? A color? A Logo? A jingle? How do I know if a name or a logo is available for me to use in connection with my goods or services in commerce? Can I use such a name, color, logo, or jingle without first making sure that no one else is using it before me? How can I protect it? How can I enforce it? Should I protect it? Should I file for a trademark registration? Will failure to register my trademark have an effect on my income and quality of life? How else can my trademark contribute to my income and quality of life?

Trademarks can be anything you adopt and use in connection with your goods and services in commerce for the purpose of helping consumers identify and distinguish you from your competitors, as the source of those goods and services. It can also overlap with copyright protection, which protects artistic expression in a host of diverse creative forms, from a purely artistic work, to an ad campaign, to a computer program. (And trademark protection can overlap with patent rights when one seeks a design patent.)

Creative people, inventors, artists, and cutting edge companies come to INTELLECTULAW™ because they value INTELLECTULAW™’s unique and different approach to the practice of trademark law.

At INTELLECTULAW™, a trademark law firm located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York and practicing both nationally and internationally, The Trademark Attorneys partner with select clients to use trademark laws in a manner that most impacts their income and quality. We start by taking the time to really understand their business and goals in order to develop a strategy that in fact provides a significant impact on their income and quality of life through the proper use of trademark laws; a strategy that makes sense to them.

Are you in the:

  • food and wine industry?
  • trucking industry?
  • chemical industry?
  • Manufacturing?
  • real estate?
  • computer and computer software industry?
  • construction industry?
  • Advertising?
  • sports and entertainment?

Do you think that you have trademark issues? How are those issues impacting your income and quality of life? Clients appreciate INTELLECTULAW™’s bottom-line, results-oriented business approach to their trademark concerns. It’s not simply filing paperwork – it’s about maximizing the impact of their trademarks on their income and quality of life. See what clients have to say about their experience with INTELLECTULAW™.

Trademark Infringement

How would you feel if, all of a sudden, you had to give up your name because another company is using a similar name to yours, began using such name ahead of you, and believes that your use of your name infringes on the trademark rights it has accrued in connection with its name; notwithstanding the fact that you were capable of securing a domain name registration, or that the state in which you are incorporated allowed you to use your name as a corporate name? Will you have to change your labels? Your marketing materials? Will you have to discard inventory? Will you have to incur additional expenses to set up new labels, new packaging, new advertising? How is that going to affect your income? How will it affect your quality of life?

INTELLECTULAW™ works with their clients to find out if trademark issues can't affect their clients’ income and quality of life; and if they do affect their income and quality of life, to develop a strategy that makes sense and includes such tools as trademark searches; trademark applications at both the federal and state level, nationally and internationally; branding; advertising; policing the trademark rights; and licensing.

Trademark Litigation: Arbitration/Mediation Attorneys

Are you the creator of an original trademark? Is having clear title to your trademark important to you? Is infringement of your trademark something that might affect your income? Your piece of mind? Your family? Your personal and professional development? INTELLECTULAW™ partners with select clients for the purpose of managing their trademarks in a manner that most impacts their income and quality of life. In the process they have, with a 15 year track record behind them, obtained substantial jury awards for the clients, including many in the high six-figure range. They have also successfully defended clients against charges of infringement and have brought cases before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, thereby saving their clients millions in potential damages.

INTELLECTULAW™ are experienced courtroom litigators (link to Litigation) However, they are also experienced mediators. Accordingly they can develop a strategy that makes the most sense to their clients for the purpose of resolving any trademark issue that affects their income and quality of life using whatever tools necessary, whether litigation, arbitration or mediation.

If you think this very different approach might be appropriate for your situation, contact the trademark protection lawyers at INTELLECTULAW™ for a confidential review of your options.

  • Evening and weekend appointments available
  • Credit cards accepted
  • English, French, Italian and Greek spoken

Intellectulaw along with its founding partner, Betty Tufariello, provides legal counsel and courtroom representation to individual inventors and businesses of all sizes with copyright, trademark and patent concerns. The firm handles clients both at the National and International level.

INTELLECTULAW™
Law Offices of P.B. Tufarielo, P.C.

25 Little Harbor Road
Mount Sinai, NY 11766
Telephone: 631-476-8734 | Fax: 631-476-8737
www.intellectulaw.com