Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Intellectual Property Attorney with tech industry experience (programmer, marketing, textbook author); focused on helping clients protect and leverage their intangible assets. I like counseling clients on brand strategy and trademark portfolio management. I manage about 6000 trademarks for clients in 70+ countries. Legal practice areas: Trademark prosecution and brand management strategy; copyright issues focused on publishing, digital rights, and the arts; international brand protection; license agreements; technology service agreements; entertainment law and rights of publicity; data privacy; social media legal issues; advertising law; e-commerce; sweepstakes and contests.
Attorney focused on trademark strategy and protection, novel copyright issues, international brand management, and related intellectual property and licensing matters. Currently managing about 6,000 trademarks for clients in 75+countries. Additional experience with open source software, book publishing, data privacy issues, and corpus linguistics.
Adjunct Instructor in American History, Colonial period to the present.
Shareholder (partner) at Kirton McConkie, a full-service law firm and the largest in Utah with about 140 attorneys. My practice is focused on trademark protection, including international trademarks and brand strategy. I combine my business experience and legal training to manage more than 2000 trademarks for clients in 50+ countries. I also work with copyright, publishing, and technology matters, drawing on my 10-years' experience in the software industry and as a best-selling author of Linux and network security textbooks.
Wells IP Law is a boutique IP and Technology law firm based in New York and Salt Lake City, Utah with over 300 clients in over 40 counties. We focus on helping clients obtain trademark registrations (especially international clients and international registrations); technology law (especially software agreements, open source, and website legal documents); and entertainment law (especially publishing-related agreements).
Clearance and prosecution of trademark applications; infringement and ex parte trademark disputes; legal review of advertising materials; review and negotiation of media contracts and other agreements, including social media, celebrity endorsements, environmental issues, cyberlaw issues, and contests.