Legal Services

Jill Hubbard Bowman’s law practice focuses on intellectual property counseling and contract negotiation and drafting.

Jill has created a series of flat-fee legal services packages for startups— from individual founder’s plans to comprehensive, strategic IP plans—to help fledgling companies get started correctly at a reasonable, known cost.  This is a revolutionary, somewhat heretical approach.

Jill also provides legal services by the hour for in-depth legal counsel, more complex contracts, and companies that step on legal landmines.

Jill also teaches IP law classes for employees and organizations to help companies protect their intellectual property through education and good practices and avoid liability from employee conduct.

Jill’s legal services include counseling on IP and commercial legal issues including:

• Pre-launch counseling for entrepreneurs before they leave their old company to help prevent IP contamination and claims of trade secret misappropriation
• Trademark counseling regarding business and product name selection
• Intellectual property audits to identify major legal issues
• Strategic IP protection plans
• General trade secret protection and liability risk assessment
• Copyright issues related to content and code
• Patent issues
• eCommerce issues
• Document retention
• Subpoena responses
• Due diligence and IP risk assessment for investors
• IP litigation strategy

Other services include contract drafting and negotiation:

• Software license agreements
• Web design contracts
• Web site terms of use and privacy policies
• Design agreements
• Development agreements
• Founder’s invention assignment agreements
• Employee invention assignment and confidentiality agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Customer agreements
• Release agreements
• Document retention policies
• Trademark registrations
• Copyright licenses
• Copyright registrations
• Cease and desist letters

Jill also teaches IP law classes for employees and organizations on topics including:

• How to Avoid the Most Common IP Mistakes & Blunders
• IP Contamination & Protection:  How to keep your IP clean
• Trade Secrets 101:  How to protect your trade secrets and avoid liability for trade secret misappropriation
• Patent Law Basics:  Best practices for identifying, recording and disclosing inventions to protect your valuable assets
• Copyright Law 101
• Trademark Law 101