Your company's trademark is your visible reputation in the marketplace. If you are not protecting it using the legal tools available, you are not only opening yourself up to another business taking advantage of your success, but you may also be leaving yourself open to someone ruining your reputation.
Keeling Patents & Trademarks in Houston, Texas, has built our reputation on experience and knowledge in all areas of trademark protection and intellectual property law. Our attorneys have more than 55 combined years of experience making sure our client's good names do not get harmed by illegal trademark use.
Call our Houston trademark law attorneys to discuss your specific circumstances. We will help you protect your trademarks, service marks, and business reputation using the courts and government protection available.
- Trademark research and analysis
- Trademark applications and registrations
- Domain name registrations and protections
- Trademark infringement resolution and risk management
- Trademark license agreements
- Trademark sales and purchase agreements
Some Factors That Can Result In Trademark Infringement Disputes
- Similarity of trademark insignias, logos, or slogans
- Similarity in services or products offered by the companies involved
- Intent of the junior user in adopting a similar trademark
- Evidence that consumers have been confused by the similarity in the trademark
Some examples of trademarks we have helped our clients obtain include:
1. RULE THE SMOKE for goods and services related to barbecue grills, smokers and pits
2. MICRO PRO for goods and services related to waste and wastewater treatment
3. AMERIMEX POWER SYSTEMS for goods and services related to AC and DC motors
4. DELTA DIRECT for goods and services related to well screens for sand control in oil and gas wells
5. ALL PLAY INC for goods and services related to playground and park service equipment
6. TEXAS SAFARI RIFLES for goods and services related to rifles and rifle barrels
7. BUFFALO REAL ESTATE PARTNERS, INC. for real estate brokerage and management services
8. SULTRAP for fluid separation apparatus
9. DOMINATOR for alternating current motors
10. DELIVER HOUSTON for transport and delivery of goods
11. MCINTYRE’S SPIRITS + FRIENDS for restaurant and bar services
12. TE QUIERO UN CHURRO for food truck services
13. REVV-ELATION for automobile dealerships
14. IDAPRO for financial planning
15. DOCXGUARD for cloud storage services for electronic data
16. EXOTIC BERRY for restaurant services featuring frozen yogurt
17. PERMAFIL for goods and services related to filters for removing particulate matter – registered by us in 1988 and still a live trademark
Trademark and Trade Dress Case Examples:
- Defended client against temporary restraining order and at temporary injunction hearing regarding allegations of trademark infringement.
- Resolution by a bench trial on the merits of claims including trademark infringement and false designation of origin.
- Negotiation of favorable settlement of trade dress infringement claims.
- Resolution of alleged trademark and trade dress infringement at conclusion of temporary injunction hearing.
