Massachusetts Intellectual Property Attorney

On the internet, it is very easy for people to claim credit for your hard work. Make sure that you have the protection you need to defend yourself. Our Massachusetts intellectual property attorney can make it easy for you to protect your work and file for a federal copyright, the indisputable legal proof you need to claim ownership for your work.

Has your intellectual property rights been infringed upon? If so, contact our Massachusetts Intellectual Property Attorney today!

A Massachusetts Intellectual Property Attorney can help with:

copyrights
trademarks
patents

A copyright is a form of protection provided to authors of "original works of authorship." This includes both published and unpublished works. Copyrights protect the form of expression rather than the subject of the expression.

Federal copyright registrations are issued by the US Copyright Office. They can give the copyright owner exclusive rights to reproduce the copyrighted work, prepare derivative works, distribute copies of the work, and perform and display the work publicly.

Under intellectual property laws, the following cannot be copyrighted:

titles
domain names
telephone numbers
general ideas
concepts

A trademark is a word, name, symbol, or device which indicates the source of a product and distinguishes it from the products of others. A servicemark identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.

Trademarks are issued by the US Patent & Trademark Office. They prevent other people from using a confusingly similar mark but cannot prevent others from making the same products or from selling the same products under a clearly different mark.

A patent is the grant of a property right to an inventor. With a patent, a person is granted the right to exclude others from using, offering for sale, and selling or importing the invention. They are issued by the US Patent & Trademark Office. Though our Massachusetts intellectual property attorney does not patent work, we can refer you to the appropriate office.

Let our Massachusetts Intellectual Property Attorney protect the content and HTML code of your web site!

The types of works that can be registered include:

Literary Works	Performing Arts Works	Visual Arts Works
web site HTML code web site screen displays computer programs academic or scholarly works pamphlets, directories, catalogs, and brochures poetry, essays, books, and manuscripts speeches, reports, and advertising copy contributions to collective works compilations of data or other literary works automated databases	scripts (with or without music) prepared for theater, radio, and television screenplays for motion pictures (with or without music) lyrics music musicals pantomimes choreographic works Keep in mind: sports, games, and physical fitness exercises are not choreographic works sound recordings are not performing arts works	photographs and posters drawings, artwork, and murals architectural drawings advertisements artwork applied to clothing or other useful articles cartoons, decals, bumper stickers greeting cards, postcards, stationery maps, globes dolls, toys, games, puzzles fabric, floor, and wall covering designs holograms, computer, and laser artwork jewelry designs mosaics and patterns for sewings, knitting, crochet, and needlework sculpture (carvings, ceramics, figurines) stained glass designs, stencils, cut-outs technical drawings, blueprints, diagrams, mechanical drawings

Has your intellectual property rights been infringed upon? If so, contact our Massachusetts Intellectual Property Attorney today!

Serving Greater Boston and All Massachusetts:
Greater Boston intellectual property lawyer Attorney Alan Segal serves the Boston region and all of Massachusetts in all IP legal matters including the communities of Acton Agawam Amherst Andover Arlington Attleboro Barnstable Belmont Beverly Billercia Boston Braintree Bridgewater Brockton Brookline Burlington Cambridge Canton Chelmsford Chelsea Chicopee Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Dracut Easton Everett Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Framingham Gloucester Haverhill Holyoke Lawrence Leominster Lexington Lowell Lynn Malden Marlborough Medford Melrose Metheun Milford Milton Natick Needham New Bedford Newton North Andover North Attleboro North Reading Norwood Peabody Pittsfield Plymouth Quincy Randolph Revere Salem Saugus Shrewsbury Somerville Springfield Stoughton Taunton Tewksbury Waltham Watertown Wellesley Westfield West Springfield Weymouth Woburn Worcester.