Wayne J. Colton, Inc. is a San Antonio-based intellectual property law firm specializing in patents, trademarks, and copyrights. As a registered patent attorney practice, the firm stands out for its comprehensive approach to protecting innovations across a wide range of technical and creative fields.
The firm offers strategic counsel on invention protection, brand management, and creative rights, serving inventors, businesses, and creators with tailored legal solutions. With expertise spanning medical, mechanical, electrical, and software inventions, as well as ornamental designs, they provide end-to-end support from application to enforcement.
Services Offered
- U.S. and international utility and design patent applications
- Patent novelty searches
- Patentability, validity, and infringement opinions
- Invention protection strategies for product or process development
- Patent license and purchase agreements
- Patent litigation and USPTO administrative proceedings
- Federal, Texas, and international trademark applications
- Trademark adoption and usage advice
- Trademark searches and registrability opinions
- Trademark license agreements
- Trademark and business purchase agreements
- Trademark litigation and USPTO cancellation and opposition proceedings
- Stopping gray market and infringing imports at the U.S. border
- Copyright protection strategies
- U.S. copyright registrations
- Agreements for the sale, gift, or license of copyrights
- Terminations of prior copyright transfers and licenses
- Copyright litigation
- Preventing U.S. import of infringing works
- Protection of artists’ rights to attribution and integrity
- Protection and theft of trade secrets
- Addressing unauthorized access to computer systems
- Confidentiality agreements and noncompetition agreements
- False advertising claims
- Business disparagement and injury to business reputation matters
- Interference with business relations
- Publishing agreements
Based in San Antonio, Texas, the firm assists clients with both domestic and international intellectual property needs, providing dedicated legal support to safeguard their innovations, brands, and creative works.
