Hoffberg & Associates

Hoffberg & Associates is a boutique intellectual property law firm, located in Westchester County NY, and services a global clientele. We specialize in high complexity strategies to initiate, grow, and deploy business models predicated on intellectual assets.Mr. Steven M. Hoffberg, principal of Hoffberg & Associates, is a seasoned patent attorney, as well as an accomplished inventor.Intellectual Property Law involves legal rights that arise from the action of the mind. These rights arise under statues or common law, and generally include patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and restrictive covenants (agreements between parties). Under current paradigms, AI generated inventions and works are ineligible for protection, however, AI is protectable under patent law, and AI software is protectable under copyright law.Utility patents protect useful conceptions, while design patents encompass ornamental (non-functional) aspects of useful articles, which are in each case novel and non-obvious, and meet other statutory, administrative, and judically-created constraints. The process begins with a patent application, during which the patent examiner reviews the application to ensure compliance with requirements. Trademarks protect symbols of goodwill. Trademark rights arise naturally, and even unregistered marks are protectable. However, federal (or state) registration provides enhanced benefits.Copyrights protect the work of authors and artists against copying, and are automatically protected. Federal registration is required before enforcement, and provides enhanced rights.Trade secrets exist as commercially valuable information that is not generally known to the public, and are maintained in secrecy. A trade secret may be protected in face of disclosure by an agreement (a non-disclosure agreement) between the disclosor and recipient to maintain the confidentiality. Restrictive covenants permit parties to define relationships that define rights and responsibilities with respect to information and activities, and include non-compete, non-circumvent, and similar covenants.Hoffberg & Associates counsel clients with respect to most areas of intellectual property law.Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.Submitting a case for evaluation does not create an attorney-client relationship.Our logo is a dragon, a mythical beast that soars on high, swoops down, and burns the sorry ass of an infringer.