An intellectual property attorney is a lawyer who can practice or all of the following areas of law: copyright, patent, and trademark. Within these area of laws there are subsets or categories of law like Internet Law that can incorporate these area of legal studies and other more basic areas of law like contract, tort, and property.
An attorney who represents technology and cyberspace clients is going to need to be well verse in many different areas of law. Copyright, patent, and trademark are important because they are areas of law where you can get your work registered and recognized by the federal government.
Getting your work registered gives you certain rights afforded by the federal statues that govern them. There are some common law rights that are also conferred without registration like under copyright.
Therefore there are a lot of know and if you are not currently represented by an attorney you might want to consider looking through the list of Los Angeles copyright attorneys that we will provide on your website to help you find one.
