Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer

Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson

Protect What You’ve Worked So Hard To Create With Newport Beach Trademark Attorney Sebastian Gibson

As a business owner, you invest your money and your sweat equity in building and branding your business. When someone else swoops in and reaps the benefits of your labor by using your unique ideas and branding, you need the assistance of Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson.

At the law offices of Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, we provide copyright and trademark protection for those in the entertainment industry for their films, music, screenplays, books, comics and publishing.  In other industries we provide intellectual property protection and advice to cosmetics and beauty care companies, businesses that need trademark protection for their business services, and to individuals wishing to protect their websites and advertising.

With law degrees in both California and in Great Britain, and decades of experience in California and internationally as well in areas such as trademark protection, business contracts, publishing, modeling and entertainment, and international law, Sebastian Gibson has been the attorney of choice for decades by individuals with the need of a trademark, business and entertainment lawyer with the experience to handle matters in a swift and cost effective manner.

With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson can advise you by phone the same day when you need assistance most. Business, trademark and entertainment matters are handled at an hourly rate or a flat rate which we will endeavor to make affordable to your situation.

Why Trademark Your Assets

When you create your business, you immediately begin to accumulate goodwill, name recognition, and hopefully, repeat customers. While imitation may be “the most sincere form of flattery,” you do not want competitors to reap the benefits of your hard work while trading on your goodwill and honesty. A trademark can protect your logo, slogans in your advertising, and key products, while helping new and returning customers to find you in overcrowded marketplace.

Registering your trademarks is a sound idea that helps protect your business identity and product name, along with goodwill. While other business owners in the same line of work can inadvertently choose a name or logo similar to yours, some competitors knowingly and deliberately steal your work, while counterfeiters and cyber squatters seek to sell inferior goods under names confusingly similar to yours. Without registration, you may have difficulty stopping those who infringe upon your trademark.

Why You Need Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson

Whether you are starting a business or trying to protect the name of an existing business, a trademark attorney is essential to protecting your business:

• Trademark Selection. Before you choose a business name, tagline, or logo, trademark lawyer can perform and analyze trademark searches to make sure that name and other features you want to include in your trademark has not already been claimed by someone else.
• Trademark Registration. Registering your trademark with the U.S. patent and trademark office is the best way to establish the basis for claiming that someone has violated your trademark rights.
• Trademark Defense And Litigation. When someone else has presented your trademark as their own, your attorney can initiate a cease-and-desist action against them, and ultimately file infringement lawsuits in state and federal court.

While nearly 400,000 trademark applications are filed annually in the U.S., thousands are opposed by trademark holders who claim that that they are too similar to an existing trademark. While you cannot prevent someone else from trying to use the same name or similar name for their products or services, having your trademark registered gives you the right to petition for the new trademark to be denied or canceled.

The Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer For Your Business

Conducting searches and taking action on trademarks is a job for an attorney with experience in the field of intellectual property rights. There are many online tools that enable individuals to search trademarks and file appeals, but to do so properly and successfully, you need Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson. To properly register and defend your trademark, you need the experience of Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson.

While you can do a trademark search online, it only scratches the surface of what a trademark examiner may find that will disqualify your trademark application.  For this reason, Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson recommends a much more thorough trademark search prior to applying for a trademark and producing products that may infringe another trademark owner.  Once the search is performed by a reputable trademark search company, we can analyze the search results to advise you if we feel your trademark application will be favorably considered by a Trademark Office examiner.

At the Law Offices of Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, we file applications for trademarks, and can successfully pursue trademark infringement cases. Even if your product is unregistered, Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson may still be able to help protect your rights based upon your prior usage of a name or slogan used in conjunction with your products or services.

Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named a 2024 Top Lawyer for the 14th year in a row by Palm Springs Life Magazine.

Call us for a consultation with your trademark matter before it’s too late. With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach, we can assist you with your trademark anywhere in California, throughout the U.S. and around the world. Call Palm Desert and Newport Beach Trademark Lawyer Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810.