Intellectual Property Lawyer

Serving Clients Worldwide

Do you need advice or legal assistance with any aspect of intellectual property protection, intellectual property management or intellectual property exploitation? If you need assistance with entertainment licensing, product licensing, character licensing, franchising or trademark, copyright, patent or intellectual property enforcement, the highly skilled intellectual property attorneys of Grimes & Battersby, LLC are available to assist you. We are leading members of the intellectual property legal profession, both in the United States and worldwide. We are a full service law firm whose members have over 100 years of combined experience in all phases of IP licensing and trademark, copyright, patent, entertainment, media, unfair competition, antitrust and corporate law.

Serving clients throughout the world, our attorneys regularly participate in the creation of brands and in the negotiation and drafting of licensing arrangements to exploit those brands in a wide range of commercial fields for a diverse group of clients. We have a proven track record of success, representing our clients in multi-million dollar business transactions and in major litigations relating to the protection of trademarks, copyrights and patents and in the resolution of disputes relating to licensing agreements.

Intellectual property lawyer Chuck Grimes and his partner, Greg Battersby, literally 'wrote the book on licensing.' We have authored a series of books on the exploitation of intellectual properties and are executive editors of several leading journals in the intellectual property law field. Firm members have also written hundreds of articles on intellectual property and licensing law subjects, have appeared as legal experts and commentators on television shows and at trade industry seminars and symposiums, and have served as committee chairs, officers and on the boards of directors of major bar associations.

Intellectual Property Law

As the firm's founder and managing partner, Chuck Grimes has worked extensively in all facets of intellectual property law. He has managed the worldwide trademark portfolios of leading consumer products companies and has participated in major trademark and patent litigations. He has been involved in some of the most successful commercial exploitations of intellectual properties over the last 35 years. He is the former Trademark Counsel of Gulf + Western, which at the time owned Paramount Pictures, Madison Square Garden, Simon & Schuster and other well-known companies. Chuck and other firm members have been involved in the intellectual property exploitation of a diverse group of companies, such as Archie Comics, SOBE, Revlon, Avon, Pierre Cardin, Consolidated Cigar, Cuban Cigar Brands, Evian Waters, Hearst Entertainment, King Features, DIC Entertainment, Scholastic Publications, Harvard, Yale, UCLA, USC, Lego, Hitachi, Guess and the PGA, just to name a few.

Chuck and other members of the firm have been instrumental in structuring intellectual property exploitation arrangements involving Microsoft, DreamWorks, Disney, Universal Studios, Columbia, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, ABC, CBS and Time Warner, as well as hundreds of other companies. Their efforts have contributed to the generation of hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from successful intellectual property exploitation.

The firm handles all legal matters and litigation connected with intellectual property and licensing law, including: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, worldwide IP protection and IP portfolio management & monitoring. Our licensing consultation services include character licensing, corporate licensing, entertainment licensing, celebrity licensing, patent & technology licensing, software licensing, toy licensing, sports licensing, publishing rights licensing and video game licensing. We are fully conversant in royalty rates and valuation, IP enforcement & litigation, infringement litigation and anti-counterfeiting enforcement. We can provide assistance with expert witness testimony, agreements & transactional business structures, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, internet & e-commerce law and business planning.

Consult with an Intellectual Property Law Attorney

For skilled and experienced legal assistance in connection with any intellectual property or licensing law matter, it is in your best interest to arrange for a no-cost initial consultation with one of our attorneys. We are leaders in the legal fields of intellectual property protection, licensing and enforcement. We provide outstanding and aggressive legal representation that is built on proven results over many decades. Call us if you wish to benefit from the experience of a law firm that is known for legal acumen, excellence and service to a wide range of clients throughout the world.

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