Law

Protection of intellectual property has become so important that companies today carry out intellectual property audits to identify their intellectual wealth and form special departments to manage them. The legal professional who specialises in matters related to intellectual properties is termed as Intellectual Property Attorneys. The major job of all Intellectual property (IP) lawyers is to protect the intellectual property rights of their clients.
All the intellectual property rights are protected under various sub-divisions of law such as Patent under patent law; Trademark under trademark law and Copyright under copyright law etc. An intellectual property lawyer can specialize in any or all of these fields, and their roles and responsibilities vary according to the fields.
Patents Attorney: Patent attorneys give advice to the inventors for protecting their inventions of tangible things from being made, sold or used by others for a certain period of time.
Trademarks Attorney: They give advice to customers about protecting and enforcing their trademark rights and guides the ways to protect their trademarks from being copied.
Copyrights Attorney: Copyright attorneys give advice to the owners for protecting various forms of written and artistic expression. These professionals specialize with copyright-related matters such as copyright registration and protection services which involve protection of the original creative work of the creators such as music, books, manuscripts, software, films, fashion designs, website etc from being copied for commercial purposes without the creator's permission.
Besides the patent, copyright, trademark areas these professionals can also work in the field of industrial design, layout design of integrated circuit, geographical indication, trade secrets and protection of plant varieties, information and communication technology law (cyber laws).
IP lawyers work with numerous clients from small business owners to top management of law corporations, from garage inventors to prize winning scientists and provide services such as registration, enforcement, drafting, filing, litigation and licensing of intellectual properties like trade marks, designs, patents, copyrights etc.