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Intellectual Property Law and Litigation

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ay Quinney & Nebeker represents a wide array of clients in patent, trademark, copyright, piracy, unfair competition, and related matters. Our clientele includes both Fortune 500 companies and smaller business concerns, including companies and individuals engaged in businesses concerning software development, medical devices, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and a wide variety of other products and services. Ray Quinney lawyers handle litigation, technology licensing, franchising, trade secret, copyright, and trademark application matters. For more information, please click on any of the following:



Trademark and Copyright Registration

Ray Quinney attorneys handle a wide variety of name availability searches, trademark and copyright registrations, office actions, amendments, renewals, recordations, and administrative appeals before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office, and various state agencies. We also have significant experience in administrative opposition and cancellation proceedings involving trademarks and service marks before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. We maintain hundreds of federal trademark and service mark registrations for a wide array of regional and national clients. The firm also has an expanding international registration practice.

If you wish to speak with an attorney about your business needs and questions in this area, please contact:

Lester K. Essig
801-323-3320
lessig@rqn.com


Intellectual Property Licensing

Ray Quinney’s practice includes a significant amount of document drafting and negotiation relating to all types of intellectual property. This includes preparation of assignments, asset purchases, licenses, sublicenses, development agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements, distribution agreements, marketing agreements, outsourcing agreements, maintenance agreements, mutual consents, escrow documents, confidentiality agreements, cooperative alliance agreements, web site agreements, Internet service agreements, and other documents. Ray Quinney also engages in protective planning in the form of intellectual property audits, consultation, actions to perfect ownership rights and other protective measures.

If you wish to speak with an attorney about your business needs and questions in this area, please contact:

Rick B. Hoggard
801-323-3335
rhoggard@rqn.com


Technology-Related Business Start-Ups

The rapid growth of information technology has created significant demand for expanded legal services on the part of many of our clients. This is particularly true for technology-based clients entering the market for the first time, as well as those who have been in the market, but now face significant expansion and capitalization needs. Our firm provides a full service menu of expertise for our clients. This includes assistance not only with respect to technology protection, licensing, and transfer in the patent, copyright, software, Internet, multimedia, trademark, service mark, domain name, and trade secret fields, but also a broad umbrella of services relating to the formation of business entities, venture capital, public offerings, private placements, taxation, commercial law, employment law, and other fields.

If you wish to speak with an attorney about your business needs and questions in this area, please contact:

Mark A. Cotter
801-323-3378
mcotter@rqn.com


Litigation and Enforcement

Ray Quinney has a significant number of attorneys devoted to intellectual property litigation and enforcement. We have one of the largest intellectual property enforcement sections in the state, representing clients of regional, national, and international stature. Our enforcement activities focus primarily on patents, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, domain names, copyrights, licensing disputes, counterfeiting, piracy, and other infringement activities. We also assist clients in formulating and implementing comprehensive brand protection strategies. Our practice includes litigation in state and federal court, as well as actions before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Ray Quinney’s IP litigators are also experienced in areas of law frequently related to IP litigation, including antitrust, interference with business relations, defamation, and related claims. Because of this breadth of experience, Ray Quinney is frequently retained by other IP firms to assist them with litigation. We welcome this team approach to IP matters.

If you wish to speak with an attorney about your business needs and questions in this area, please contact:

Mark M. Bettilyon
801-323-3307
mbettilyon@rqn.com



ATTORNEYS

Lester K. Essig
801-323-3320
lessig@rqn.com

Mark M. Bettilyon
801-323-3307
mbettilyon@rqn.com

Rick B. Hoggard
801-323-3335
rhoggard@rqn.com

Mark A. Cotter
801-323-3378
mcotter@rqn.com

Robert O. Rice
801-323-3352
rrice@rqn.com

Arthur B. Berger
801-323-3372
aberger@rqn.com

John W. Mackay
801-323-3341
jmackay@rqn.com

John P. Wunderli
801-323-3309
jwunderli@rqn.com

Samuel C. Straight
801-323-3390
sstraight@rqn.com

Scott B. Finlinson
801-323-3391
sfinlinson@rqn.com

Ryan B. Bell
801-323-3383
rbell@rqn.com

S. Brandon Owen
801-323-3369
bowen@rqn.com

Michael K. Erickson
801-323-3351
merickson@rqn.com

Matthew M. Cannon
801-323-3364
mcannon@rqn.com

Caleb J. Frischknecht
801-323-3389
cfrischknecht@rqn.com

TJ England
801-323-3362
tjengland@rqn.com


Of Counsel

James S. Jardine
801-323-3337
jjardine@rqn.com

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