Patent and Trademark Maintenance & Restoration of Lost Rights
Protecting your intellectual property doesn't end at registration. At DNL Sheets & Zito, we help ensure your patents and trademarks remain active and enforceable through strategic maintenance services. From monitoring deadlines and filing renewals to managing annuities and global compliance, we provide ongoing support to safeguard your rights and preserve the value of your IP assets over time.
Accidental loss of patent or trademark rights can be terrifying. The most common reason for patent or trademark abandonment is a failure to pay maintenance, or annuity, fees on time.
As a former in-house counsel to a global patent and trademark renewals company and as current outside counsel to Anaqua, Inc., the leading patent and trademark management service provider based in the US, Ken Sheets has vast experience in paying maintenance fees and restoring IP rights around the world.
He has restored patent rights in the USPTO, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, Korean Intellectual Property Office, China National Intellectual Property Administration, German Patent and Trade Mark Office, National Institute of Industrial Property (Argentina), and many other offices.
If your registered patent or trademark portfolio needs maintained or renewed, our firm works closely with Anaqua, Inc. to provide these services.