Cislo & Thomas LLP is a highly specialized firm 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 with offices in Santa Monica, Westlake Village and Santa Barbara, California.

Some of the typical type of intellectual property law services are listed below:

Patents - All types of clearance, searching, filing, prosecution, maintenance, licensing and litigation.  Anything related to patents we have handled over 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 we have handled from negotiations of every kind of intellectual property to license preparation, recordation and license auditing and compliance.

Litigation - All types of intellectual property litigation in Federal and State court from the Central District of California to courts throughout the United States in places like the Eastern District of Virginia, Delaware, Texas, New Jersey, Washington state, Kansas, Florida just to name of the few of the federal courts where we have activity prosecuted or defended intellectual property cases.

Downloadable Forms  - Various types of Cislo & Thomas patent, trademark, and copyright forms and agreements can be helpful in providing services to our clients.