Practice Areas
Intellectual Property Law
The Law Offices of Aaron J. Stewart prides itself on providing cutting-edge legal advice and representation to its clients, whether businesses or individual entrepreneurs, in the area of Intellectual Property Law. Centered in Chico, California, our law firm represents clients from Sacramento to the Oregon border. You and your business will benefit greatly from having an IP attorney on your side who will protect your ideas and enforce your rights. We can assist you in the following areas:
- Copyright Law, Copyright Registration, and Copyright Infringement Counsel
- Trademark Law, Trademark Registration, Trademark Infringement and Dilution Counsel
- Patent Searches and Invention Marketability Analysis
- IP Licensing, including Software Licensing
- Entertainment Law, Media Rights, Publishing, and Rights of Publicity Law
- California Trade Secret Law and Trade Secret Protection
- California Unfair Competition Law
- Internet issues, including: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Domain Name issues and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
We are honored by the confidence and trust our clients have placed in us to protect their valuable intellectual assets, and we look forward to protecting yours as well.
For further information on how we can best assist you or your business, please contact the Law Offices of Aaron J. Stewart.
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