Reichard & Calaf, P.S.C.

Trademark and Intellectual Property Matters
Reichard & Calaf, P.S.C. provides trademark registration services before the Trademark Office of the Department of State for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and has handled a wide variety of administrative matters, including cancellation and opposition proceedings. The fortes of the firm include copyright infringement, piracy, counterfeiting, and other trademark infringement issues.

Matters Under the Puerto Rico Dealer?s Act (LAW 75)
Reichard & Calaf, P.S.C. specializes on matters related to the Puerto Rico Dealer?s Act, which regulates the relationship between manufacturers or principals and the local distributors. The firm has successfully represented distributors as well as principals and manufacturers.

Banking Matters
The structuring and preparation of secured loan agreements for commercial and construction purposes, mortgages, mortgage foreclosures, collection and general litigation are services rendered by the firm. On these matters, it represents Banco Santander, Puerto Rico?s second largest bank. Over the years the firm has successfully litigated thousands of mortgage foreclosure proceedings, including the collection and foreclosures of multimillion dollar loans.

Other Civil and Commercial Matters
The firm has developed extensive trial experience, before the Courts of Puerto Rico and the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico litigating a broad range of civil and commercial matters, involving breach of contract, insurance law, surety and fidelity, construction law, civil and constitutional issues, employment law, medical malpractice and general tort law.

CT Corporation System
For over 30 years, the firm has acted as a designated agent for CT Corporation System, providing a full range of corporate services to more than three thousand clients, including registration services for corporations and the acceptance of summonses and complaints on behalf of CT?s coporate clients.

Service that goes beyond
To further serve our clients, the firm has a network of affiliate offices in the Caribbean Basin area, Central and South America, Philadelphia and New York. One of the affiliates is Harry Blackburn & Associates, a law firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that concentrates in the fields of construction law surety and fidelity, government contract claims, environmental law and "white collar" criminal defense.