Intellectual property

How MB Legal helps

IP ownership frameworks for employees and contractors, software and content licensing, and portfolio management. Getting ownership right at the start (in the employment agreement, in the contractor SOW, in the assignment) is what keeps a company from discovering years later that it does not own the code or the brand it built its business on.

We manage the IP portfolio and coordinate registration counsel on filings, so trademark and other registrations get handled by the specialist who files them while the ownership terms, licensing, and enforcement strategy stay with the counsel who knows the business. That coordination extends to the IP terms buried in vendor and AI-tool agreements, where the question of who owns the output often goes unasked until it matters.

When someone trades on your name, we handle enforcement: takedown and abuse reports, domain disputes and UDRP proceedings, and demand letters that get responses. The goal is a proportionate response that protects the mark without turning a nuisance into a lawsuit.

Why MB Legal

Brand and IP work sits next to the commercial and technology contracts we already handle for growing companies, so the ownership terms in your agreements and the marks you are trying to protect get looked at together rather than in separate silos. The company that gets ownership right in its employment agreements, its contractor SOWs, and its vendor terms rarely has to litigate who owns what later, which is where the real cost of an IP problem shows up.