Our proprietary Quality Client Care® (QCC®) process ensures the highest quality work for our clients. This unique approach addresses the best and most economic way to provide great protection and rapid response. It has also allowed us to become one of the top-rated law firms in the nation, as independently rated by Lexis-Nexis Martindale Hubble and The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, which lists us in the top 5% of all law firms in the country.
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We have offices in Santa Monica, Westlake Village, and Santa Barbara to serve our clients' intellectual property needs from Santa Barbara to Orange County. Our offices and attorneys are therefore conveniently located in order to provide the greatest possible access to highly skilled experts in all types of intellectual property.
Our attorneys and paralegals file patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and also use real-world experience in business to effectively litigate these matters in Federal Court. We are engineers and scientists in addition to being attorneys admitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Courts. Each patent attorney is highly trained in various technical disciplines and specialties. They are also each seasoned attorneys who can handle all forms of intellectual property disputes. Our attorneys work with clients for the clearance, searching, filing, licensing and litigating of patent, trademark and copyright matters and intellectual property of all types.
Cislo & Thomas LLP is a highly specialized law firm with offices in Santa Monica, Westlake Village, and Santa Barbara, California, addressing intellectual property matters, particularly patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The services that we provide include clearing intellectual property, establishing rights in intellectual property, licensing intellectual property, and defending or bringing infringement suits for misappropriation of intellectual property. We use our proprietary IPCC™ system for transactional work involving intellectual property and our LCC™ approach for litigation services involving intellectual property disputes.
IPCC™ Intellectual Property Cost Control™ Transactional Legal Services
For our transactional intellectual property services, we use a process driven by a cost-effective system called Intellectual Property Cost Control or IPCC.™ This allows us to provide the highest quality service at a lower cost. Some of the typical types of intellectual property law services we provide are listed below:
Patents - All types of searching, clearance, filing, prosecution, maintenance, licensing and litigation. We have handled anything and everything related to patents during the course of the many years we have served Southern California.
Trademarks and Copyrights - All types of trademark searching from scanning to common law searches and opinions, Federal and State trademark filings, recordations and assignments, including working with U.S. Customs to record and enforce copyright and trademark rights against incoming infringers.
Trade Secrets - All types of anti-misappropriation programs and policies to protect company trade secrets, including non-disclosure agreements, trade secret protection plans, vendor and employee agreements and litigation of trade secret matters.
Licensing - All types of licensing for every kind of intellectual property, including license preparation, recordation, auditing and compliance.
LCC™ Litigation Cost Control™ Litigation services
For intellectual property litigation matters we provide the same high quality approach to resolving disputes concerning patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and unfair competition using our Litigation Cost Control™ or LCC™ methods.
Litigation - We have handled all types of intellectual property litigation and prosecution in Federal and State courts, from the Central District of California to courts in the Eastern District of Virginia, Delaware, Texas, New Jersey, Minnesota, Georgia, Washington state, Kansas, and Florida, just to name a few.
We seek to resolve each case in a cost effective manner, and avoid going to trial if possible. We weigh the needs of our client with our previous experience when deciding whether or not to proceed with litigation. Where we must go to trial, we can often do so less expensively than the expected average cost associated with intellectual property cases.
