For twenty-five years, H New Media Law International has protected cigar and tobacco brands in more than one hundred jurisdictions and guided their makers through federal, state, and international regulation. That same discipline now serves spirits, food, packaging, and industrial companies that do business across borders.
Our clients make products that cross borders and draw regulators. We handle the name on the box, the permit behind it, the duty paid on it, and the company that owns it, with a single attorney who knows the whole picture.
Clearance, prosecution, maintenance, and enforcement of marks in the United States and abroad, managed as one coordinated portfolio.
Federal, state, and international compliance for manufacturers, importers, and distributors of cigars and other tobacco products.
Import strategy and recovery for companies moving goods into the United States from Latin America, Europe, and beyond.
Formation, governance, and the commercial agreements that hold an international group together.
Twenty-five years before state and federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, in trademark and commercial matters.
A United States legal home for manufacturers abroad, from the first shipment to a mature portfolio and distribution network.
Protecting cigar brands is unusually demanding work. A practice built for it serves any brand that crosses a border.
Cigar names are often Spanish, frequently geographic, and always crowded. The owners are manufacturers abroad, the packaging matters as much as the name, and the regulators are never far away. That experience translates directly to other regulated and brand-driven industries.
Many of our clients have been with the firm for more than twenty years. That kind of relationship is built on three commitments.
Thousands of marks prosecuted, maintained, and enforced. Every deadline docketed, every foreign associate coordinated, one attorney accountable for the whole portfolio.
Advice written in plain language, in English or Spanish, so the people who run the business can act on it without a translator of either kind.
We measure our work by what it does for the brand, the shipment, and the company, and we tell clients when a fight is not worth having.
For defined, recurring work, H New Media offers three dedicated services with published prices and online ordering. Complex, contested, or strategic matters remain with the firm.
Attorney-led clearance searches and USPTO applications, ordered online in English or Spanish, with trademark watch for registered marks.
Visit hnmbrands.comA registered agent is a legal position, not a mailbox. Florida service at $99 per year, with an attorney reading what arrives, plus annual reports and corporate filings.
Visit hnmagents.comState by state filing services for cigar manufacturers, importers, distributors, and online sellers, with deadlines tracked through renewal.
Coming soonHNM Brands, HNM Agents, and HNM Compliance are services of H New Media, LLC. Legal services ordered through HNM Brands and HNM Agents are provided by attorneys of H New Media Law International under the terms stated on each site. HNM Compliance is a nonlegal filing service; using it does not create an attorney-client relationship with the firm.
H New Media Law International was founded in 2001 to serve the premium cigar industry, and tobacco manufacturers remain at the core of its practice. Our clients are family companies and multinational groups in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras, Europe, and the United States.
Managing Partner Frank Herrera is a Florida attorney with twenty-five years of state and federal corporate and trademark litigation, regulatory, and transactional experience. He manages international trademark portfolios across more than one hundred jurisdictions and advises clients on FDA, TTB, customs, and state regulation of tobacco products.
Clients work directly with Frank, supported by a bilingual team and a network of trusted foreign associates.
Tell us briefly about your company and what you need. We respond to every inquiry, in English or Spanish.