Some of the world’s best-known brands are represented by Schwabe.

Overview

Schwabe provides services to help industry leaders, growing businesses, and start-ups establish and manage strong domestic and international trademark portfolios.

We regularly advise in relation to the selection and protection of trademarks, service marks, slogans, trade dress, and domain names. In particular, we handle:

• Clearance, registration, and enforcement
• Oppositions and cancellation proceedings
• License, co-branding, and other agreements

We counsel clients on copyright issues for all types of materials, including traditional print, music, art and sculpture, databases, and digital content. Clients regularly call on us to assist with registration, counseling, licensing, ownership transfers, infringement demands, and other disputes.

We also have significant experience litigating trademark and copyright cases, but are equally adept at resolving these disputes without the expense and delay of litigation whenever possible.

Ensuring compliance for marketing campaigns

Our clients seek our advice on their website and ad campaign content, product packaging and promotional materials, and similar marketing materials. We help ensure compliance with Federal Trade Commission guidelines and applicable state and federal laws. We also provide advice on required disclosures in social media and other marketing campaigns. In addition, we draft and negotiate sponsorship, endorsement, and influencer agreements on behalf of our clients and advise on state laws that govern sweepstakes and ‎contests, including drafting Official Rules and registering promotions with various states when required.