Legal Office Hours

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The Stevens Center provides a complimentary one-hour legal consultation with a qualified corporate or intellectual property attorney. This service is available to all USC innovators (faculty, staff, students, and alumni) and USC-related startup companies where there is not USC-owned IP. Where there is USC-owned IP, USC Stevens will work with you to manage the IP according to our standard procedures.

Topics you can discuss with an intellectual attorney include:

  • IP ownership
  • Trademark and Copyright applications
  • Patent searches and provisional/non-provisional patent applications
  • Patent processing advice
  • Patent protection

Topics you can discuss with a corporate attorney include:

  • Advice on articles of incorporation and bylaws for Corporations for profit or nonprofit
  • Contract review
  • Guidance on creation of Limited Liability for Companies and Corporations

Attorneys are available by appointment only and are scheduled based on the attorneys’ availability and will take place via Zoom. Prior to scheduling an appointment, an intake form must be completed and submitted to legalofficehours@stevens.usc.edu.