Our Miami based trademark lawyers can help you before, during, and after the trademark application process. We can help you police and enforce any trademark registration that may issue from the trademark application process. Our trademark lawyers can help you avoid costly legal problems by conducting comprehensive trademark searches prior to your filing of any trademark application. Note, we recommend you perform a comprehensive trademark search prior to filing for a trademark, for there may be trademark owners who may have protected legal rights in trademarks similar to yours that are not federally registered. If a trademark owner predates your use of your trademark in the United States, for similar products, he may be deemed to be the senior user of the mark and thereby prevent you from using your mark in US Commerce. Trademarks that are not federally registered will not appear in the USPTO’s Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) database, yet they may prevent the use of your mark. As trademark lawyers, we can help you during the application process, for we can help you determine the best way to describe your goods and services and prepare responses to refusals to register that an examining attorney may issue. Additionally, as Florida licensed attorneys, we can also assist you in the policing and enforcing of your trademark rights before the state and federal courts of Florida. The USPTO only registers your trademarks. You, as the trademark owner, are responsible for any enforcement or policing of your trademark. Mr. Alcoba is a registered patent attorney who has over 15 years of experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications. Mr. Alcoba has worked with many independent and corporate inventors over the past 15 years. In addition, he has filed patent applications in many arts. Having worked with independent inventors, Mr. Alcoba realizes that often some independent inventors have a difficult time describing or drawing their inventions and therefore he has a team of drafters and engineers that help him present the inventor’s invention to the US Patent Office. He strongly believes that his experience allows him to help independent inventors understand the things they may or may not know. Our Firm believes that prior to meeting with a patent attorney you should have an understanding of the patent process. For that reason, we are providing basic information and videos to help you better understand the patenting process. We believe that the better you are versed in the patent process, the better you will be able to relay your information to our patent lawyers, thereby allowing them to best present your patent application before the US Patent Office. Note, we strongly suggest you conduct a preliminary patent search prior to filing a patent application, for it will allow you to see what has already been patented and what makes your invention novel. If there is nothing that makes your patent different from what has been patented, then we suggest that you do not file a patent application, for ONLY inventions that are novel and non-obvious can be patented. We prepare patent applications, freedom to operate opinions, patent availability opinions, licensing agreements, work-for-hire agreements, distribution agreements, and other patent related services. For over the past 16 years our business attorneys have advised entrepreneurs, foreign investors, foreign and domestic corporations, profit and non-profit corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and small business with their business operations in South Florida from our Doral office. Our business lawyers counsel businesses from their inception to their dissolution. Our Miami business attorneys help business owners establish long lasting relationships with their partners by drafting strong shareholder and opera