Video Game Legal Issues
With more than 20 years’ familiarity with the gaming industry, Karlin Law Firm LLP can help you protect your intellectual property, get your business started, and keep your business profiting and expanding.
Orange County video game lawyers work from our offices in Tustin and Newport Beach. We invite you to contact our firm regarding your concerns regarding copyright and trademark matters, as well as business formation and other related issues.
Newport Beach Video Game Lawyers And Video Game Law
The last two decades have seen the video game industry expand at a rapid pace. Where there once was a landscape of only large publishers and developers, the recent markets such as app stores for smartphones (iPhone iOs/Android) and tablets (iPad), Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and STEAM for the PC and Mac have provided opportunities for a flourishing, indie games market.
Whether a creative or business talent, it is important in the ever-changing industry to have proper protection for your work and proper guidance for your business model. AV-rated* attorney, L. Scott Karlin, along with Michael J. Karlin and David E. Karlin, understands the business and intellectual property challenges you may be facing, and is prepared to help you.
Karlin Law Firm LLP handles all video game law matters, including:
- Copyright registration and litigation
- Trademark registration and litigation
- Business formation (startup corporations and limited liability companies (LLC))
- Licensing and distribution deals (Apple App Store/Android Market)
- Contract disputes (breach of contract, noncompetition agreements/covenant not to compete)
- Marketing agreements
- Music licensing deals
- Employment agreements (hiring agreement, quality assurance)
- Property acquisitions (content ownership, business purchase/business sale)
- Misappropriation of ideas (including fraud, misrepresentation, nondisclosure)
Our skilled lawyers at Karlin Law Firm LLP can assist you by determining ways in which to best protect your work, including programming, coding and trade secrets.
If you are dealing with copyright infringement, misappropriation of ideas or false claims from third parties, we will tenaciously work to protect your rights through skillful negotiation or litigation.
Contact Karlin Law Firm LLP Today
We invite you to contact Karlin Law Firm LLP today at 888-698-8932 or email us. We offer two convenient office locations in Tustin and California. Visit our Fees page for more payment information.
For experienced representation by video game law attorneys in California, including Orange County, Los Angeles County, Tustin and San Diego County, contact us to schedule an initial consultation at our law office. We are open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., and our 24-hour answering service is available to handle matters at other times. Our Tustin, California business law and litigation office is centrally located off the 5 and 55 freeways, near the Orange County airport’s industrial market. Our California business law and litigation office is located on Pacific Coast Highway, off the 55 freeway, near Hoag Hospital.
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