POTTER GROUP REAL ESTATE

Potter Group tries to make the search for answers easier.  We combine our legal, consulting, and technology experiences and knowledge to help you create, evaluate, develop, acquire, and protect your intellectual property and enhance your innovation.  Cliff Potter has been involved in numerous intellectual property, information technology and privacy matters, including those involving licenses, joint ventures, general consulting, and disputes.


Intellectual property involves the  creation, development, and registration of IP rights, and resolving disputes involving such rights.  Potter Group Legal Services LLC will advise clients on a broad range of intellectual property and technology business and legal matters.  We can coordinate registration, development, marketing, and licensing matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, advertising and promotion law, rights of privacy and publicity, electronic database protection, computer law, and e-commerce matters.  We also are available to counsel clients on how to organize their domestic and international IP and technology transfers in ways that best suit their business goals.  And we can help resolve intellectual property disputes.

Copyright services
Cliff Potter hsa reviewed and frequently design and work on various copyright agreements, including those involving computer software and similar documents.  Cliff has also been involved in copyright litigation, assisting clients in early termination of such disputes.  In a recent example, settlement occurred prior to hiring local counsel and filing any responsive pleading.

Trademark services
Cliff Potter's trademark work has been global and multidimensional.  Cliff has represented companies and a government entity in multinational registrations, developed trademark strategies with extensive involvement in distribution and licensing planning, and other similar matters.  On occasion during his career, Cliff has been called upon to review the work of other law firms and have provided advice about sensitive issues often with multimillion dollar exposures or expenditures.  Shape trademark product protection strategies have been developed by Cliff over a period of nearly fifteen years, with a focus on the ability to protect and enforce shape trademarks.

Patent and trade secret services
Cliff has assisted in patent registrations, developed patent strategies, considered patent violations, defended and prosecuted patent infringement claims, considered and analyzed possible patent claims, and developed marketing and product development, and patent licensing strategies in connection with domestic and world markets.  From successful trade secret injunction and multinational trade secret litigation to the development of corporate trade secret protection programs, Cliff's depth of experience with trade secrets brings to clients an extensive background in the development, protection and consideration of industrial and service industry trade secrets.


Information technology involves the creation, development and registration of IP rights focused on IT as well as licensing software, internet technologies, websites, e-commerce sights and many other rights involved in the creation, use, and development of information technology and computer resources for businesses and individuals.  Cliff has been involved in information technology for more than three decades.  He has managed his own business through computers and networks for that long.  During this time, he has represented some of the world's largest corporations and many entrepreneurs as they worked on developing, patenting, protecting and licensing in and out various information technology rights and products. 



Audits review an intellectual property or information technology right or duty or a company's complete portfolio to ensure that the law is being followed and rights are being adequately protected.  Potter Group Legal Services LLC has integrated these materials into Guides for International Compliance, Antitrust and Competition Law Compliance, and Intellectual Property and Computer Resources Management, and Privacy Policies for International Companies.  These audits and guides can help ensure that smaller companies with guides to ensure that a corporation's desire to act legally is clearly documented.  And our education services follow on with educational systems designed to ensure that the rights are being protected and and duties are being maintained.  We can help our clients by conducting audit and education services that focus on creating, developing and licensing intellectual property assets, rights and obligations, including those involved in on-going relationships and transactions.  We can also help clients develop systems designed to ensure the protection and exploitation of the identified intellectual property.


Privacy advice provides our clients with help understanding the privacy legal settings, setting up their guidelines, and reviewing policies and procedures to protect them against claims regarding breaches of confidentiality and privacy should they ever occur. Potter Group Legal Services provides privacy law advice to our clients, including those that do business throughout the world.  We assist corporations in setting up their guidelines, and in reviewing policies and procedures to protect them against claims regarding breaches of confidentiality and privacy should they ever occur.

The following are among the organizations represented by Cliff Potter and/or Potter Group Legal Services in the registration, licensing, development, and/or disputes involving intellectual property, information technology, and/or privacy matters.