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About US

We are an intellectual property law firm focused on trademarks, copyrights, customs and business law. From registration and enforcement to dispute resolution, business formation, and contracts, we help creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses protect what they build and grow with confidence.


Based in the United States, we practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office. Through a network of trusted international partners, we extend that protection across borders so our clients can grow anywhere in the world.


Kamilah M. Holder

Managing Partner


Kamilah M. Holder serves as a trusted advisor and advocate for a diverse range of clients across many industries, such as retail, financial, entertainment, media, and technology. In her practice, she focuses on understanding her clients' practical business goals and matching them with steady legal protections.


Kamilah's day-to-day practice centers on comprehensive intellectual property management, where she helps protect and enforce domestic and international trademark and copyright portfolios. She regularly represents clients before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, resolves domain name disputes, and manages online infringement takedown campaigns to keep her clients' brands secure. Alongside her intellectual property work, Kamilah provides clear, practical guidance on major privacy frameworks like the California Consumer Privacy Act, and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, helping organizations manage data collection and consumer rights without disrupting their operations. To ensure her clients have a solid foundation for growth, she also handles the commercial transactions that keep businesses running smoothly, drafting and negotiating the essential service, licensing and commercial agreements that support everyday operations.


This deep technical proficiency is backed by a versatile professional foundation. Prior to her current practice, Kamilah spent more than seventeen years refining her craft across an array of large, medium, and boutique law firms. This diverse institutional background gives her a unique perspective on the distinct operational pressures facing companies at different stages of growth.


Outside of her practice, Kamilah enjoys spending time with family and friends, gardening, interior design, traveling and volunteering.


Services

COPYRIGHTS

Comprehensive copyright registration to establish and protect your ownership of original works.

Trademarks

Global strategic trademark protection built to safeguard your brand identity.

BUSINESS LAW

Solid legal foundations and robust contracts protecting your business from the ground up.

Data privacy

Mitigate risk and secure customer trust with clear, compliant data privacy policies.

Enforcement

Decisive IP enforcement: e-commerce takedowns, cease and desists, UDRP disputes, and U.S. Customs seizures.

CUSTOMS

Management of CBP e-Recordations and agent training to protect your IP at every port of entry.

FAQ

In the United States, you automatically gain common law trademark rights the moment you start using a name or logo in commerce, but those rights only cover the geographic area where you actually operate. Federal registration with the USPTO expands those rights nationwide, creates a legal presumption of ownership, and gives you access to federal courts if someone infringes your mark. Without it, a competitor could register your mark first and block your expansion entirely. If you sell online, plan to grow, or want to attract investors, registration is worth doing early as rebranding after a conflict is far more expensive than filing in the first place.

An Office Action is a formal letter from the USPTO examining attorney assigned to your application, raising questions, objections, or requirements before your trademark can move forward. While not a rejection, it comes with a hard deadline that, if missed, can cost you your entire application. If you receive an office action and the issue is more than a quick fix, it's worth getting a trademark attorney's eyes on it before you respond, particularly for substantive refusals where the wording of your argument can determine whether your mark gets approved.

When filing a U.S. trademark application, you must choose between a "Use in Commerce" basis if you are already making interstate sales, or an "Intent to Use" basis if your product hasn't launched yet. Filing based on actual use requires providing immediate proof, whereas an intent-to-use filing locks in your priority date early but requires you to submit proof of sales later. Choosing the correct basis is critical, as filing under the wrong category can delay your registration or even cause your trademark to be completely invalidated.

Following the Supreme Court's Warhol ruling, merely adding a new artistic aesthetic or commentary is no longer enough to outweigh a work's commercial nature. Instead, courts look at whether the new art shares the same commercial purpose as the original photograph, such as being licensed to illustrate a magazine article. Unless the artist can show a compelling need to copy that specific photograph to critique or parody it directly, the commercial use will almost always defeat a fair use claim.

While you automatically own a copyright the exact moment you create an original work and fix it in a tangible medium, registration is functionally essential if you ever want to enforce or fully protect that copyright.