ZEK’s litigation and transactional lawyers are experienced in counseling clients on how to protect, preserve and enhance the value of their intellectual property rights. ZEK has significant experience handling financing transactions involving collateral such as trademarks or patents, works of music, writing, or software protected under the federal Copyright Act. Additionally, Zeichner Ellman & Krause has entered into a formal affiliation agreement with Sherman IP, an intellectual property law firm based in Los Angeles.Sherman IP is a pre-eminent Intellectual Property law firm that provides services to clients ranging from the world’s largest public corporations to mid-size companies to individual entrepreneurs. The firm is recognized for its advanced experience in high technology patent prosecution; sophisticated, high-volume trademark prosecution; patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and transactions including licensing, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions.Initially, Sherman IP provided its services to a select cadre of sophisticated clients pursuing, protecting, and using their Intellectual Property for their business purposes. Sherman IP’s proprietary systems coordinated patent prosecution across technology groups so that clients with large portfolios of patent properties could see systemic high-quality services with lower amortized costs across their entire patent prosecution dockets.Sherman IP applied its systems to trademark prosecution with its AKeyMark® system and Control Legal® practice program to provide a prepaid, limited scope, flat fee trademark prosecution program directly to consumers, many of whom could not have previously afforded a specialized lawyer to help protect their brand. With these programs, Sherman IP became one of the largest trademark law firms in the country in terms of filing volume.* *Sherman IP services are offered exclusively by Sherman IP attorneys, and not by ZEK attorneys.