Lott & Fischer, PL

Focus and practice areas

Intellectual property covers a wide span, and the firm handles most of it. The named practice areas are patents, trademarks, copyright, internet law, and entertainment law. Related litigation sits alongside that transactional work.

Each of those areas protects a different kind of asset. Patents cover inventions and processes. Trademarks cover brand names, logos, and the marks that tell buyers who made a product. Copyright covers creative work such as writing, music, film, and software. Internet law reaches disputes over domain names, online counterfeiting, and content posted without permission. Entertainment law reaches contracts and rights in music, film, and media, where several owners can hold a stake in one work.

Litigation and licensing

Lott & Fischer litigates in federal and state courts and appears before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The firm also handles licensing agreements and alternative dispute resolution. In my opinion, that pairing matters, because an owner who registers a right may later have to defend it, and the same lawyers can carry both jobs.

The firm takes on both domestic and international matters, and those matters run across transactions and disputes. A client can keep registration and enforcement with one firm. Those threads can cross, when a single product carries a patent, a brand name, and copyrighted packaging at once.

How the team is built

Leslie J. Lott and Ury Fischer are the founding partners, and the firm carries both their names. They started it in 1983, and both still appear on the current team page.

Five more attorneys fill out the roster: Neda Lajevardi, Noah H. Rashkind, Dylan H. Smith, Ariel Weltz, and Ella Sims. Seven lawyers cover a single field of law, a compact size for a firm that reaches clients across several continents.

A small IP team has a practical shape. Partners tend to stay close to the files, and clients tend to work with the same attorneys over the life of a matter. Long tenure in one field also builds the pattern recognition that a patent or trademark practice runs on.

Where the clients come from

The firm represents clients across the United States. Its reach extends to Canada, Mexico, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.

Those clients include Florida businesses, multinational companies, and individuals. Cross-border IP work carries its own demands, since a trademark or patent right stops at each country's border and has to be filed and defended under separate national systems. A firm that lists clients on several continents is one that has dealt with those parallel systems.

The firm also works as local counsel and co-counsel for other firms on intellectual property matters. As a reviewer, I read that co-counsel role as a sign that other lawyers bring their IP work to it, often because a case has landed in the South Florida courts.

Coral Gables and the local courts

The office is in Coral Gables, a city inside greater Miami. It sits near the federal and state courthouses of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.

For an IP litigator, that proximity carries practical weight. Patent and trademark disputes often move on tight schedules, and filings, hearings, and emergency motions run through those same courthouses. Being close to the clerk's office is a small edge that adds up over a long case.

Coral Gables holds a concentration of businesses, agencies, and professional offices within greater Miami. That setting keeps potential IP clients, brand owners, inventors, and creative companies, close to the firm's door.

How intellectual property matters usually run

Intellectual property work splits into two broad stages, and the firm covers both. Registration comes first: a patent application at the USPTO, a trademark filing, or a copyright deposit. Each has its own forms, examiners, and waiting periods, and a patent can take years to reach a grant.

Enforcement follows when someone challenges or copies a protected right. That path can lead to a cease and desist letter, a licensing negotiation, mediation, or a court case. Alternative dispute resolution gives some of these matters a route to settle before trial, which can spare both sides the cost of a full courtroom fight.

Because the firm handles filing and litigation together, a client can keep the same attorneys across a full matter.

Trademark and patent work in practice

Trademark and patent matters follow different clocks. A trademark application turns on whether a mark is distinct and clear of conflict with earlier marks, and an examiner reviews it before it can register. A patent application turns on whether an invention is new and non-obvious, and that review can stretch across several years.

Copyright sits on a lighter process, since protection attaches once a work is fixed in a tangible form, though registration adds legal footing for a lawsuit. A firm that lists all three areas has to track three separate rulebooks. Lott & Fischer names patents, trademarks, and copyright together, which points to a practice built to handle the full set.

Lott and Fischer put their names on the firm in 1983, and it has practised only intellectual property law in the years since.