Principal and Founder- Nina Freeland-Ringel
Ms. Freeland-Ringel has extensive experience as well as an educational background in Intellectual Property Law. Nina's Intellectual Property employment history includes Callaway Golf, The Sharper Image Company, and The Upper Deck Company.
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California Coast Investigative Team
California Coast Investigative Services is a proprietary enforcement division founded by the principals of California Coast Legal Group to protect the brands of our corporate clients. California Coast employs highly trained global investigators who work directly with our attorneys to implement strategies to acquire, and operate counterfeit and fraud prevention programs to monitor and manage the use of our client's intellectual property.
Through years of working internationally, our investigators have developed a unique strategy to police your brand, work directly with customs and import/export companies to identify and deter counterfeit; to identify confusingly similar uses; to conducting local market research and to coordinate efforts with domestic and international anti-piracy and fraud prevention agencies and law enforcement. Our local investigators are highly skilled law enforcement officers who specialize in working undercover to locate venues engaging in counterfeit activity and consumer fraud. By virtue of their law enforcement careers they excel at document and evidence collection to assist our attorneys in taking the appropriate legal steps to protect our clients.
Sports and Entertainment
Additionally, we employ sports and entertainment industry veterans both domestically and internationally who specialize in the procurement of talent in both the sports and entertainment industries. From rookies to academy award winners, we have the staff that can assist our corporate clients in locating the right spokesperson to build their brand and to put endorsement deals together at all levels of the economic spectrum. In addition to obtaining live talent, our staff has numerous contacts with celebrity estates that allow us to locate and obtain the rights to music, art, name, signature and image for historically significant athletes and celebrities.
Staff
California Coast Legal Group also employs highly skilled legal associates and legal staff who work directly with our clients at all levels to identify their needs and to exceed their expectations. These personnel are experienced in filing all types of intellectual property applications and managing the application process both domestically and internationally.
Our associates have experience in preparing all types of corporate agreements and licenses including but not limited to Non Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreements, Technology Transfer Agreements, Consulting Agreements, Endorsement and Talent Agreements, Joint Venture and Start-Up Agreements, Assignments, Work for Hire, and Sub Contractor licenses. Our staff is also uniquely qualified to work with our corporate clients to set up document processes for gathering information relevant to establishing their intellectual property rights, developing trademark guidelines and training processes to build and protect their brands, to identify missed opportunities, to employ marketing, packaging and development guidelines to ensure proper use of the company's intellectual property assets and to prepare documents to maintain the confidentiality of trade secret assets.