Tel: (203) 373-1919
Fax: (203) 373-0805
4154 Madison Avenue
Trumbull, CT 06611

Firm Profile & Services

Monahan & Costello, LLC, is a law firm specializing in the practice of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing, and various opinion and transaction matters. Our clients include individual inventors, entrepreneurs, and corporations.

M & C provides a variety of intellectual property legal services to our clients. We counsel clients on the obtainment, strategic management and protection of intellectual property rights. For example, we prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications, register trademarks and copyrights, and help manage, license, assign, sell or otherwise transfer and protect the foreign and domestic intellectual property rights of our clients. Representative services are outlined below.

Patent, Trademark and Copyright and Related Services:

• Patents. Preparing, filing and prosecuting utility and design patent applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in foreign countries with chemical, mechanical, electrical, biomedical and biotechnology disciplines. We assist clients in developing patent strategies consistent with business objectives.
   
• Trademarks/ Service Marks Preparing, filing and prosecuting applications for the registration of trademarks and service marks in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in foreign countries. We assist clients in (i) selecting a trademark or service mark; (ii) protecting a mark; (iii) resolving trademark/service mark conflicts; and (iv) licensing and transferring rights to a trademark or service mark.
   
• Copyrights Registering and protecting copyrights from infringement, including right to use or perform works of others and negotiating royalty payments.
   
• Trade Secrets & Know-How. Protection and enforcement.
   
• Unfair Competition
   
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Technology Transfer and Business Development Services:

• Business Formation
     
• Business and Entrepreneur Counseling
     
  • Strategies for invention assessment, protection & development.
      
  • Strategic development of client intellectual property portfolios, management and counseling in foreign and domestic issues, especially entrepreneurial and emerging advanced technology companies.
       
  • Intellectual property issues arising from mergers, acquisitions, private offerings, assignments and sales.
       
• Agreements
    
  • Negotiating and preparing license, sale and/or transfer agreements involving patents, trademarks and/or trade secrets.
       
  • Negotiating and preparing employment agreements, non-compete agreements; non-disclosure (confidentiality) agreements.
       
• Opinions
    
  • Patent non-infringement, freedom to operate and patent invalidity.
        
  • Patentability opinions.
       
  • Trademark infringement and validity opinions.