title: Sobering Trademark Stories: Costly Mistakes To Avoid
author: David L Hoffman
description: David L. Hoffman has practiced trademark, patent and copyright law (intellectual property or IP) for over 30 years. He has an engineering degree from MIT and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After many years of practice, he formed his own IP law firm in Valencia, California in 2003. Hoffman Patent Group (HPG) represents ongoing businesses in all of their IP matters by protecting their trademarks and inventions from would-be invaders. HPG also provides IP lawsuit defense, helping companies get out fast before it becomes too expensive. David lives in Valencia with his wife and daughters. He enjoys golf, tennis, fix-it projects, and wine-tasting.
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  The Clans #4
   
  INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORS
  ELIZABETH KNOX
  IRIS SWEETWATER
   
  
  COPYRIGHT
   
  Copyright © Elizabeth Knox and Iris Sweetwater 2019
  All rights reserved.
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means,
  including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author,
  except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This is a work of fiction. The names,
  characters, incidents, and places are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed
  as real except where noted and authorized. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or actual
  events are entirely coincidental. Any trademarks, service marks, product names, or names featured
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  and trademark owners of various products