Do you have an intellectual property rights problem?

• Are your intellectual property rights being violated in a foreign market?
  
  
• Have you registered your intellectual property (copyright, patent, trademark, etc) in the foreign market where the violation is occurring?
  
  
• Are counterfeit or pirated products which violate your intellectual property rights being sold in the United States or in another country?
  
  
• Have you registered your patent or trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?
  
  
• Have you registered your copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office?
  
  
• Have you recorded your U.S. trademarks or U.S. copyrights with U.S. Customs?
  
  

• Are you unable to register the patent, trademark, or copyright with a foreign government? Are similar trademarks, patents, or copyrights registered in that country?
  
  
• Have you trusted a foreign government with your intellectual property and has it passed your business confidential information, technology, or trade secrets on to a local company without your permission? Is the local company now your main competitor?
  
  
• Is a foreign government not helping your agent, distributor, or wholly-owned subsidiary to stop a violation of your trademark, patent or copyright's violation?
  
  
• Is your patent, trademark, or copyright being used illegally in a foreign market?
  
  
• Is your patent, trademark, or copyright protected under international law (the World Trade Organization's Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property - TRIPs, the Berne Convention, or the World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO)?
  
  
• Is your trademark considered a famous mark?
  
  
• Do you have documentation or other proof of the patent, trademark, or copyright violation?
  
  
• Are you unable to register the patent, trademark, or copyright with a foreign government? Are similar trademarks, patents, or copyrights registered in that country?
  
  
• Have you trusted a foreign government with your intellectual property and has it passed your business confidential information, technology, or trade secrets on to a local company without your permission? Is the local company now your main competitor?
  
  
• Is a foreign government not helping your agent, distributor, or wholly-owned subsidiary to stop your trademark, patent or copyright's violation?
  
  

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