Intellectual Property
The things your company creates are often the most valuable things it owns. We make sure it actually owns them, and keeps them.
- IP assigned from every founder, employee, and contractor
- Trademarks cleared, registered, and renewed
- Trade secrets actually protected
- Open-source use that won't poison a deal
Legal Health Dashboard™ · Intellectual Property
Callister, Inc.
Ownership & Assignments
- IP assignment from every founderSignificant concerns
- Employee IP assignments in placeGood
- Contractor IP assignments in placeSome concerns
Registered Rights
- Key trademarks cleared and registeredQualified approval
- Trademark renewals on calendarGood
- Copyright registrations where materialIn progress
Trade Secrets, Licensing & Open Source
- Trade secret protection program in placeSome concerns
- Inbound and outbound licenses inventoriedGood
- Open-source license compliance analyzedCritical concerns
In an acquisition, IP ownership is question one.
Diligence teams don't ask whether your product works. They ask whether you own it. A missing founder assignment or a copyleft license in the wrong place can reprice a deal overnight.
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Own what you've built
If a founder, employee, or contractor created something before signing an assignment, your company may not own it, and acquirers will find that out. We close the chain of title from day one to today, person by person.
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Protect the brand you're building
Your name, logo, and product marks accumulate value every day you operate. Clearance before adoption, registration where it matters, renewals on calendar, and a watchful eye on infringers, so the brand equity you build stays yours.
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Use the world's IP without getting burned
Every modern company runs on licensed software, open-source code, and third-party content. We keep your inbound licenses inventoried, your open-source use compliant, and your proprietary code free of copyleft contamination.
Everything an in-house legal team would handle.
Ownership, registration, protection, and licensing: the full IP picture.
IP assignments & chain of title
Assignment agreements from every founder, employee, and contractor (including prior-employer conflict checks), so ownership of your product is never in question.
Trademarks & brand protection
Clearance searches before you adopt a mark, federal registrations, renewal docketing, and enforcement decisions when someone trades on your name.
Copyrights & content
Registrations for commercially material works, work-for-hire documentation, and clean rights in the content, software, and creative your business runs on.
Trade secrets
Identification, confidentiality marking, access controls, and NDA coverage for the know-how that gives you an edge. Protection that holds up when an employee leaves.
IP licensing, in and out
Inbound license inventory and compliance, outbound licensing of your IP with royalty terms tracked, and the strategy behind both.
Open source & domains
Open-source license inventory, copyleft exposure analysis for your proprietary code, and a domain portfolio held by the company with renewals locked down.
Services are custom scoped to your business and provided in accordance with your Legal Improvement Plan and Custom Managed Legal Services Plan.
Assess, improve, and maintain, applied to intellectual property.
IP problems are invisible until a departure, a dispute, or a diligence request makes them expensive.
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Assess
We trace your chain of title, inventory your registered and unregistered rights, review your licenses and open-source use, and rate each item on your Legal Health Dashboard™ in plain color.
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Improve
Your Legal Improvement Plan closes the gaps: missing assignments executed, key marks cleared and filed, trade secret protections stood up, license issues cured.
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Maintain
New hires sign assignments, new marks get cleared, renewals get filed, and new licenses get reviewed. As a routine, not a scramble.
Legal Project Pipeline
Intellectual Property projects
- Out for signature
Founder IP assignment catch-up
2 of 3 founders signed
- Filed
Trademark application · house mark
USPTO examination pending
- In progress
Open-source compliance review
Dependency scan complete
- Drafting
Trade secret protection program
Access controls mapped
- Internal review
Inbound license inventory
42 licenses catalogued
IP attorneys who protect what your company actually builds.
Your IP work is handled by attorneys who have cleared brands, closed assignment gaps, and answered IP diligence at top firms and inside technology companies, where ownership questions decide outcomes.
Top-firm trained
IP practice
Attorneys who prosecuted trademarks, negotiated licenses, and ran IP diligence at leading firms before bringing the work in-house.
In-house operators
Operating experience
Attorneys who have owned the IP function inside product companies, where every sprint, hire, and integration has an IP angle.
Technology-fluent
Software & open source
Attorneys comfortable in a codebase conversation: open-source licensing, SaaS rights, and the realities of how software is actually built.
- Brand through codebase
- Registered and unregistered rights
- Diligence-ready chain of title
Your team is matched to your business, industry, and stage at kickoff.
Proven workflows, forms, and policies, tailored to your business.
You don't just get a top legal team. You get a top legal system, so your business never has to reinvent the wheel.
IP workflows
Repeatable processes for clearance, registration, assignment, and license review, so protection happens as you build, not after.
Forms & templates
A proven library of assignment agreements, NDAs, license terms, and IP policies, tailored to your product and your people.
The renewals docket
Trademark renewals, domain expirations, and license review dates tracked on your dashboard and handled before anything lapses.
Every business deserves adequate legal coverage.
Within six weeks, you will know exactly what your company owns, what it doesn't yet, and how the gap gets closed.
Our SuperCounsel Promise
Within six weeks of engaging SuperCounsel, you will have more confidence, peace of mind, and insight into the legal side of your business than ever before.
31-Day Continual Money-Back Guarantee
If at any point you are unsatisfied with your service and decide to cancel, we will refund the entirety of your last month's subscription fee, no questions asked.
No complicated conditions · No long-term commitments · No unnecessary risk
Questions, answered
Get a free Intellectual Property assessment
We'll trace your chain of title, review your marks, licenses, and open-source posture, then show you exactly where your ownership stands.
Find out exactly where your business stands. No obligation.