Chicago Intellectual Property Law Firm
Overview
As a business owner, you need an attorney who listens to you and provides cost-effective advice on how you can protect your intellectual property and grow your established business or start-up. At Chicago-based Balough Law Offices, we work to enhance the value of our clients’ products and services through trademarks, licensing, copyrights, and trade secrets protection. We assist our clients in their Internet and brick-and-mortar presence with appropriate website agreements...
As a business owner, you need an attorney who listens to you and provides cost-effective advice on how you can protect your intellectual property and grow your established business or start-up. At Chicago-based Balough Law Offices, we work to enhance the value of our clients’ products and services through trademarks, licensing, copyrights, and trade secrets protection. We assist our clients in their Internet and brick-and-mortar presence with appropriate website agreements...
As a business owner, you need an attorney who listens to you and provides cost-effective advice on how you can protect your intellectual property and grow your established business or start-up. At Chicago-based Balough Law Offices, we work to enhance the value of our clients’ products and services through trademarks, licensing, copyrights, and trade secrets protection. We assist our clients in their Internet and brick-and-mortar presence with appropriate website agreements, privacy policies, non-disclosure agreements, and other contracts.
Our attorneys have more than 35 years of experience in counseling, negotiating and litigating business matters in a variety of industries. The firm’s sophisticated client base includes:
- Multi-national high technology companies
- Software development companies
- Internet service providers
- Web design firms
- Marketing and advertising agencies
- Start-up companies
- Photographers
- Individuals in defamation and privacy cases
- Restaurants
- Telecommunication firms
- Municipalities and governmental entities
The members of Balough Law Offices, LLC actively participate in the legal community. Richard C. Balough is co-chair of the mCommerce Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Cyberspace Law Committee. He has also served on the board of managers of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and as chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Computer Law Committee. His articles on e-commerce and privacy have appeared in the ABA Business Law Journal, Illinois Bar Journal, Chicago Law Bulletin, Illinois legal Times, and Marketing News. He has authored a chapter on copyrights for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Educattion. He has masters of law degrees cum laude in both Intellectual Property and Information Technology and Privacy Law. Cheryl Dancey Balough serves on the board of managers of the Intellectual Property Law Association and on the executive committee of the Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women. She is communications co-director of the American Bar Association's Cyberspace Law Committee. She has authorized an article on privacy and smart meters for the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
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