Trademark and Trade Dress Law

PROVEN GUIDANCE FOR MANAGING YOUR TRADEMARKS

Your trademarks carry your promises to consumers of the quality and consistency of your good or service. Creating a trademark that is inherently strong takes creativity and solid legal advice. Building a brand that has significant commercial strength is even harder, but can be done through impactful marketing and sales success. SNEED PLLCworks with our clients to investigate, clear and adopt trademarks that carry inherent strength and minimize risk of infringing others’ rights. We manage companies’ trademark portfolios in the U.S. and worldwide through the life-cycle of the brand.

At SNEED PLLC, we are a premier intellectual property (IP) firm in North Carolina. From our office in Davidson, we represent clients throughout the state and across the United States. If your company plans to expand internationally, we work with a network of firms outside of the United States to protect your rights abroad. We regularly represent clients in trademark disputes at the USPTO, and before the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

SERVING A WIDE PORTFOLIO OF INDUSTRIES AND SITUATIONS

Based in Davidson, North Carolina, we serve a global clientele with trademark issues. Our firm represents clients in United States federal courts, as well as the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and other administrative agencies. Here are a few of the clients we have represented in the nine years since our firm’s founding:

• A U.S.-based international footwear and apparel company before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeking to register as a trade dress an iconic footwear design

• A North Carolina manufacturer of non-woven fabrics with product applications in the home cleaning industry, including by bringing and successfully resolving multiple trademark infringement lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina to enforce a design mark critical to a key customer relationship

• A major motorcycle rally event sponsor in trying to a unanimous verdict a trademark infringement and false advertising case against a regional souvenir dealer

• Businesses and individuals from Denmark, Finland, Germany, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Italy, Austria and Canada in the protection of their intellectual property rights in the United States

Our legal team can help you defend your trademarks in the courtroom or help you resolve your intellectual property dispute without resorting to litigation. While out-of-court settlements may save valuable time and money, our attorneys are prepared to represent our clients at trial. We are experienced trial attorneys with a wealth of experience in both federal and appellate courts.

PARTNER WITH A FIRM RECOGNIZED FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EXPERIENCE

Our firm’s attorneys have been recognized for their skill in trademark and intellectual property law by Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers®, IP Stars® and North Carolina Legal Elite™. Call 844-763-3347 or use our online intake form to schedule an appointment.