PATENTS | TRADEMARKS | COPYRIGHTS | TRADE SECRETS
Elevating Innovation to COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Why BRIGHTWISE?
After three decades of experience in mid-sized, general practice law firms, Paul Weidlich founded BRIGHTWISE Law to provide clients with a singular focus on intellectual property. If your intellectual property is one of your most valuable assets, then it deserves the kind of singular focus we at BRIGHTWISE Law provide. We also believe you deserve the individualized attention, direct channel of communication, and responsiveness measured in hours rather than days that BRIGHTWISE Law provides to its clients.
In addition, BRIGHTWISE Law has the flexibility to offer a variety of alternative fee arrangements that can be tailored to emphasize value over billable hours. By offering a wide variety of value-based flat or fixed fee options as well as discounted billing rates, BRIGHTWISE Law is able to meet the needs and budgets of most any type of innovator. We are always glad to discuss our alternative fee arrangements that don’t involve six-minute increments.
So whether you are an individual inventor, an emerging startup, an established business, or a multi-national enterprise, BRIGHTWISE Law is uniquely capable of providing practical, cost-effective, and experienced legal counsel for your intellectual property needs.
Contact
➤ LOCATION
1155 Ridgeway Ave., Suite 402
Signal Mountain, TN 37377
☎ CONTACT
paul@brightwiselaw.com
423.653.1573
Areas of Practice
PATENTS
BRIGHTWISE Law has extensive experience representing clients ranging from individual inventors and startups to publicly-traded, multi-national corporations in all aspects of patent preparation, prosecution, and maintenance. Whether you are seeking a utility patent to protect the structure and function of your invention, a design patent to protect the ornamental appearance of your subject matter, or an international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) to pursue patent protection in foreign countries, BRIGHTWISE Law can provide the legal experience you need at a competitive cost. We also have extensive experience filing cost-effective provisional patent applications in order to obtain a filing date as quickly as possible, and we are always glad to discuss alternatives to patent protection such as trade secret, trade dress, and copyright protection.
TRADEMARKS
BRIGHTWISE Law has extensive experience representing clients doing business in a broad range of industries including manufacturing, professional services, transportation and logistics, e-commerce, media, entertainment, public utilities, publishing, software development, and sustainable energy in all aspects of trademark preparation, prosecution, and renewal. Whether you are seeking protection for your marks in the United States or in foreign countries under the Madrid Protocol, BRIGHTWISE Law can provide the legal experience you need at a competitive cost. We also offer a range of trademark search services for the availability of your proposed mark to fit your budgetary needs and risk tolerance.
COPYRIGHTS
BRIGHTWISE Law has experience representing authors, artists, photographers, and publishers seeking to protect their creative works through copyright registration in the United States Copyright Office. We also counsel clients on fact-intensive, complex copyright issues such as ownership, “fair use” and “works made for hire,” as well as properly marking their copyrighted works with copyright notices. We are also always glad to discuss alternatives to copyright protection such as patent, trademark, and trade secret protection, especially in the context of software protection.
TRADE SECRETS
BRIGHTWISE Law has extensive experience advising clients on identifying and protecting their trade secrets by implementing a variety of measures to safeguard them, including nondisclosure agreements, employment agreements, physical security, and digital security. We are always glad to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of protecting your inventions as trade secrets versus seeking patent or copyright protection.
LICENSE and IP-Related AGREEMENTS
BRIGHTWISE Law has extensive experience representing clients in the preparation and negotiation of a wide variety of intellectual property-related agreements, including license (both royalty and royalty-free), joint development, software development, software-as-a-service (SaaS), manufacturing, nondisclosure (NDA) and confidentiality, and assignment agreements. We also have experience drafting advertising and promotional agreements, website terms of use and privacy policies, and entertainment, media, and publishing agreements as well as the IP-related provisions in stock purchase, asset purchase, and merger and acquisition agreements.
OPINIONS and DUE DILIGENCE
BRIGHTWISE Law has extensive experience providing clients with legal opinions as to matters relating to patentability, infringement, freedom-to-operate (FTO), validity, and enforceability in a broad range of technologies and industries. We are glad to provide timely, cost-effective oral opinions or more formal, detailed written opinions depending upon your needs and deadlines. We also provide comprehensive due diligence services in connection with the sale, purchase, licensing, or other conveyance of intellectual property assets.
