Rushton Stakely has guided authors and publishers through the process of obtaining copyright protection for their expressions of ideas and, when necessary, sued or defended them in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama when infringement of a copyright was in question.

Likewise, attorneys at Rushton Stakely have filed numerous trademark applications at the federal and state level that successfully obtained protection for trademarks and service marks utilized by clients to differentiate their goods and services from their competition. Rushton Stakely lawyers have also defended against and asserted claims of trademark infringement in federal courts.