Full-Service Trademark Attorney in Austin, Texas
Beer Attorney started its humble beginnings as a Drumm Law Brand in a basement in 2010. Since then, we have grown exponentially to be trusted business partners available for companies across 31 states, including here in Austin, Texas. We provide affordable solutions for a business's trademark needs. Despite being beer attorneys, we work with companies across all industries and offer a realistic, competent, informed, and prompt response approach. In this age of legal services, we take pride in debunking societal stereotypes about lawyers; rather than being dressed in the formal garb for which lawyers are famed, we attempt to appear more approachable while offering practical, helpful, and commercially focused legal advice.
Beer Attorney Legal Services in Austin, Texas
Trademarks
The trademark protection services provided by Beer Attorney in Austin helps to protect your company's products, name, and logo. We have more significant standards than other trademark attorneys because we want to provide your brand with the broadest protection possible. As part of our trademark service, our team employs specialized software to scan the United States Patent and Trademark Office database and do a web search to find unregistered trademarks. Beer Attorney additionally drafts, files, and pursues your company's trademark application to assist you in protecting your business at all costs.
To learn more about the trademark legal service, read:
Costs of Beer and Brewery Trademarks
Which is best for my business: a trademark, copyright, or patent?
State lines, beer, and trademarks
Brewery or Beer Trademarks Using Names
Business
Our decades of experience have trained and guided us with lessons that can help us better assist our clients with their trademark and other legal business needs. The corporate legal services we offer in Austin, Texas, includes:
- Entity structuring and formation
- Owner buyouts
- Buying and selling of business(es)
- Restructuring
- Contract review and negotiation
Distribution Agreements
A distribution agreement is a marriage between a brewery and a distributor. Just like marriage, getting out of this agreement can be challenging and costly. Since every state differs in franchise and distribution laws, you need a law firm that is an expert in helping breweries in the U.S, just like our team in Beer Attorney.
We will help you in all the process of distribution agreement process, including:
- Explain Your State’s Franchise Laws
- Drafting, Reviewing, or Revising Distribution Agreements
- Negotiating Territorial Limitations, Distributor Exclusivity, and Pricing
- Flexibility
- Conducting Annual Renewal Reviews
- Overseeing Post Termination Obligations and Arbitration.
Licensing
Like driving your first car, operating your brewery business requires getting a license. Our team of expert lawyers in Beer Attorney can act as your driver education instructor that will help you with the licensing processes so that you can "drive" and operate your brewery smoothly.
Our team in Austin, Texas, can also help you with:
- Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) Licensing
- COLA label approvals
- License Conversion
- State Licensing
- License Amendments
- Application Review
Copyrights
It is impossible to copyright a drink, but you can copyright your label design. Here at Beer Attorney in Austin, Texas, we will help you in submitting, acquiring, and registering your license of ownership copyright that can help you protect your designs from copyright infringement. With our copyrights legal service, your single copyright filing can allow you ownership over your design for 95 to 120 years.
To learn more information about the ideal ownership for your brand, read: Trademark, Copyright or Patent – Which is right for my business?
Wine and Spirits
While we are proud to be Beer Attorneys, we still cater to the legal needs of all kinds of spirit makers like distilleries, wineries, cideries, and others. Just like the United States Patent and Trademark Office, we don't discriminate. We are here to help all businesses, from their intellectual property legal needs to distribution and everything in between.
To find out more read: https://winetrademark.com/
General
At Beer Attorney, we provide a "core lineup" of legal services, but we may also give a "special release" of services in accordance with the business legal requirements of our clients. For all of your legal brewery needs, we serve as a one-stop shop. We may represent you in court and assist your business in resolving legal and business conflicts as your outside general counsel.
Non-Beer
As a Drumm Law Brand, Beer Attorney also believes in the trademark of the "different is good" brand of legal services. Although we are known to assist the legal needs of breweries, we are also a full-service law firm that is open to helping all business types with their trademark and other legal business needs.
Brewery-related questions? Call the Beer Attorney right away!
Since 2010, Beer Attorney has offered the top legal services and attorneys with a strategic mindset to safeguard your brewery business. We will protect the trademark for your brand whether or not your business is involved in the brewing industry. Get in touch with a Beer Attorney as soon as possible if you have any inquiries about the law, business, or trademarks.