Black Dog Law helps inventors, founders, creators, and growing businesses protect and use intellectual property strategically.
Our work includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, ownership, infringement analysis, dispute resolution, contracts, and ongoing outside IP counsel. The right mix depends on what you are building, where the business is headed, and which assets create the most value.
We focus on practical legal strategy that supports the business, not filings for the sake of filings.
Protecting What You’ve Invented
We help inventors and businesses evaluate, prepare, file, and prosecute patent applications before the USPTO. Patent strategy may include provisional applications, utility applications, design patents, continuations, Office Action responses, and international planning.
The goal is to protect the parts of an invention or product that matter commercially while keeping the filing strategy aligned with how the business expects to grow.
Protecting the Name Behind Your Brand
We help businesses clear, file, prosecute, and protect trademarks for names, logos, slogans, products, and services. That includes evaluating potential conflicts before launch, preparing federal applications, responding to USPTO Office Actions, and advising on brand disputes and enforcement.
Trademark strategy works best when it starts before substantial money is invested in a name, packaging, advertising, or expansion.
IP Risk & Infringement Analysis
When a business receives a cease-and-desist letter, demand, or infringement allegation, the first step is understanding the actual risk.
We evaluate the asserted rights, the accused activity, ownership and registration issues, available defenses, practical exposure, and the business consequences of different response options. We also advise clients who want to assess infringement risk before launching a product, campaign, or new use of intellectual property.
Contract Drafting & License Agreements
Contracts are often where intellectual property rights become commercially useful. Clear agreements can define ownership, confidentiality, payment, scope of work, licensing rights, restrictions, and what happens when a relationship ends.
We draft and review agreements involving founders, employees, contractors, agencies, collaborators, vendors, licensees, and other business relationships where IP or confidential information matters.
Our work may include license agreements, assignments, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, contractor and work-for-hire terms, employment-related IP provisions, collaboration agreements, and other business contracts tied to intellectual property and commercialization.
Creative Work, Ownership & Infringement
We help creators and businesses with copyright registration, ownership, licensing, work-made-for-hire issues, infringement claims, demand letters, and settlement strategy.
Copyright questions often arise around photographs, websites, marketing materials, written content, software, video, design work, and creative assets produced by employees, agencies, or contractors.
Growing companies often need experienced IP and business counsel before they need a full-time in-house attorney.
Black Dog Law can serve as ongoing outside or fractional IP counsel for businesses that need regular support with portfolio strategy, contracts, licensing, product launches, ownership questions, enforcement, negotiations, and coordination of patent, trademark, and copyright work.
This structure gives the business a consistent legal resource who already understands the company, its priorities, and its intellectual property portfolio.
Enforcement & Dispute Resolution
IP disputes can arise from patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing arrangements, ownership questions, or unauthorized use of creative and commercial assets.
We help clients evaluate whether to send or respond to a demand, negotiate a practical resolution, pursue coexistence or licensing terms, preserve leverage, or escalate when necessary. The objective is to protect the client's rights without losing sight of cost, timing, and business priorities.
Let's Work Together
If you have an idea or legal question for your business, get in contact with Black Dog Law today! When it comes to quality legal services, we are the first you should call. We look forward to hearing from you.
Black Dog Law PLLC
Affiliation: United States Patent and Trademark Office
12 N Cheyenne Ave, Tulsa OK 74103
Phone: 918-231-2546