Your intellectual
know-how. Protected.
What is Intellectual Property?
The property and ownership rights born of your imagination.
At The PLK Law Group, we understand the importance of maintaining a strong intellectual property portfolio and have made this area one of our primary focuses. As a reputable firm with over 10 years of legal experience, The PLK Law Group has the knowledge and experience to properly address your intellectual property needs.
The firm focuses on all aspects of intellectual property law, both in litigation and in the transactional area — from procuring trademarks, copyrights and patents to vigorously protecting and defending rights under these laws.
Intellectual property protects a person's thought, perception, and imagination as derived from one's mind — your own "intellectual know-how." Management and enforcement of these rights are essential components of our clients' success.
The Four Pillars
Four protections.
One integrated portfolio.
Trademarks, copyrights, patents and trade secrets — coordinated into a single defensible IP estate that scales with your business.
Trademarks
Names, logos, slogans and trade dress — cleared, filed and prosecuted to registration.
Copyrights
Music, film, literature, software and visual works — registered and licensed for value.
Patents
Inventions, processes and designs — strategy and counsel from disclosure to issuance.
Trade Secrets
Formulas, methods and confidential know-how — safeguarded with airtight protocols.
Capabilities
A closer look at how we work.
Trademarks
From clearance to certificate.
Naming workshops, knockout searches, full availability opinions, USPTO prosecution, office-action responses, opposition and cancellation proceedings, and Madrid Protocol filings for international protection — handled in-house, end to end.
- Trademark clearance & availability opinions
- Federal & state registration
- Madrid Protocol international filings
- Opposition, cancellation & TTAB practice
- Trademark dilution & domain name disputes
Copyrights
For the words, sounds & images you make.
Drawn from a decade inside major-label legal affairs, our copyright practice covers registration strategy, work-for-hire structuring, music publishing, sync and master licensing, DMCA enforcement, and infringement claims in federal court.
- U.S. Copyright Office registration
- Music publishing & split sheets
- Sync, master & mechanical licensing
- Work-for-hire & assignment agreements
- DMCA take-downs & infringement claims
Patents & Trade Secrets
Inventions protected. Know-how kept quiet.
We coordinate utility and design patent strategy with experienced agents while building the contractual scaffolding — NDAs, employee IP assignments, confidentiality protocols and trade-secret audits — that keeps your most valuable know-how out of competitors' hands.
- Utility & design patent strategy
- Inventor assignments & joint-development
- NDA & confidentiality programs
- Trade-secret audits & policies
- Employee on/off-boarding IP protocols
Track Record
Quiet filings.
Loud results.
A 100% USPTO trademark approval rate, federal trial wins, and hundreds of brand portfolios shepherded from naming to global filing.
- 100%
- USPTO Approval
- On trademarks we shepherd
- 10+
- Years in IP
- Trademarks, copyrights & patents
- 4
- Pillars Covered
- TM · © · Patent · Trade Secret
- Federal
- Court Practice
- Litigation in NY & NJ districts
How We Work
A four-step path to a defensible portfolio.
Disciplined process. Senior attention. Predictable economics — from first filing through federal enforcement.
- 01
Audit & Strategy
We map your existing IP, identify gaps and rank filings by commercial leverage — not by what's easiest to file.
- 02
Clearance & Filing
Knockout searches, full opinions and prosecution before the USPTO, U.S. Copyright Office and foreign offices through Madrid.
- 03
Licensing & Monetization
Drafting and negotiating the licenses, assignments and joint-development deals that turn rights into revenue.
- 04
Enforcement & Defense
Cease-and-desist, TTAB proceedings, DMCA take-downs, domain disputes and federal-court litigation when it counts.
Enforcement & Defense
When protection requires a courtroom.
Filing is only the beginning. Our IP practice includes vigorous enforcement before the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, in U.S. District Court, and through international channels — wherever the infringement happens to live.
- Federal District Court
Trademark, copyright and trade-secret litigation.
- Madrid Protocol
International trademark protection across 130+ countries.
- USPTO TTAB
Opposition, cancellation and ex parte appeals.
- UDRP & Domain Disputes
Recovering infringing domains worldwide.
Protect What You've Built