Intellectual Property & Brand Protection
We recognize the importance of protecting your intellectual property in today's competitive creator market. With numerous social platforms and a constant flow of content, securing your likeness, ideas, trademarks, and creations with a legal expert is essential.
We assist with copyright, trademark registration, patent applications, and the protection of trade secret and sensitive commercial data. We focus on tracing ownership and originality of designs and inventions, proactive brand protection, robust licensing, and IPR enforcement, while offering strategic commercial advice to help safeguard your work.
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We provide end-to-end trademark services to help you protect your brand and secure exclusive rights to your name, logo, and other brand identifiers. From conducting thorough searches to filing applications and managing the registration process, we ensure your trademarks are properly protected and enforced. Our services also include handling trademark disputes, oppositions, and renewals, giving you the legal support needed to safeguard your brand’s identity and market position.
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Your original content deserves strong protection. At Diverge, we help creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses secure copyright ownership in creative works such as videos, music, photos, designs, and written content. We assist with registration, licensing, and copyright strategy to ensure your work is protected and monetized properly, whether you're publishing online, collaborating with others, or distributing content globally.
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We help clients secure their intellectual property rights through specialized patent and industrial design services.
Our patent services include conducting prior art searches, preparing and filing applications, and guiding clients through the registration process to protect their inventions, including via Next Generation Patents (NGP), a digital transformation initiative of CIPOs’s patent IT systems.
Our industrial design services focus on registering unique product designs, preserving their distinct appearance and competitive market advantage.
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Not all valuable intellectual property is registered — some of the most critical assets are confidential.
At Diverge, we help businesses and creators safeguard proprietary information such as business methods, client lists, algorithms, and creative processes.
Our services include drafting tailored non-disclosure, non-solicitation, and non-compete agreements to protect trade secrets and sensitive IP, particularly when working with independent contractors or collaborators. We take a strategic, legally-compliant approach to enforceability, ensuring your competitive edge is preserved while aligning with the legal limitations around restrictive covenants.
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Your brand identity is more than a logo, it’s the trust and recognition you’ve built with your audience. Diverge helps creators and businesses protect their goodwill by advising on passing off claims and enforcing brand rights against misleading or deceptive imitation. We work to ensure others don’t profit from your reputation or confuse your customers by copying the look, feel, or presentation of your brand.
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We help clients strategically manage and commercialize their intellectual property by developing tailored IP strategies that align with their business goals.
Our services include identifying market opportunities, exploring market-entry strategies, and advising on licensing, sponsorship, and other monetization avenues and commercialization arrangements to turn IP assets into revenue-generating tools. We assist on development and collaboration agreements, market participation agreements, and joint ventures to protect your rights as you enter into strategic alliances, and provide guidance on branding, marketing, and leveraging IP for competitive advantage.
Additionally, we assist in proactively protecting and enforcing IP rights, ensuring long-term value and security for your innovations, creative works, and brand identity.
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We assist clients in enforcing their intellectual property rights and resolving disputes through strategic legal solutions, without litigation. Our services include monitoring for potential infringement, sending cease and desist letters, negotiating settlements, and facilitating licensing agreements to protect your IP assets. We also guide clients through alternative dispute resolution methods, such as mediation and arbitration, to efficiently address conflicts and safeguard their creative and commercial interests.
Did you know a single line of code can hold millions in intellectual property?
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