Jones Day’s global IP practice affords clients with continuity across all aspects of trademark and copyright selection, exploitation, and enforcement.

Jones Day provides comprehensive legal services on an international basis in the areas of trademarks, trade dress, unfair competition, false advertising, the internet, trade secrets, and copyright laws.  Our experience extends from the creation, maintenance, and exploitation of trademarks, trade dress, domain name, and copyright rights to their protection in worldwide competition against infringement, misappropriation, deceptive trade practices, and counterfeiting.

We have one of the largest IP practices of any firm and offer our clients exceptional access to trademark and copyright lawyers around the world.  In the U.S., trademark and copyright lawyers are resident in the East, Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, and in the West.  Our practice also has a strong presence in Europe and Asia, with trademark and copyright attorneys resident in London, Frankfurt, Munich, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.

We cover all aspects of trademarks and copyrights practice, including devising and implementing global filing strategies, conducting searches, rendering availability opinions, and filing trademark applications in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the European Community Trademark Offices, and virtually every jurisdiction worldwide. At least one trademark registration is issued every day to a Jones Day client, and our practice maintains many thousands of registered trademarks and copyrights worldwide on behalf of our clients.  We also represent clients in the context of IP due diligence audits required for sale, acquisition, and securitization purposes.

Jones Day represents a wide variety of clients in all aspects of the enforcement of their intellectual property rights in federal and state courts in the U.S. and in courts around the world, as well as in administrative agencies such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the European Community Trademark Office, and the International Trade Commission.  Indeed, our experience goes well beyond standard trademark infringement actions.  Our lawyers handle cases that address developing areas of law such as protection of product configuration and trade dress, functionality, survey evidence, ambush marketing, false advertising, fair use, and dilution.  Our practice has extensive experience in pursuing manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit goods throughout the world, and members of the practice work closely with customs and law enforcement officials, as well as private investigators.  Jones Day lawyers have represented both electronics manufacturers and consumer products companies in matters relating to copyright protection of software and artistic works.  We represent a variety of clients in all aspects of copyright enforcement in federal courts in the United States and around the world, as well as in administrative agencies including the U.S. Copyright Office and customs agencies throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.