Coin law

Welcome to Coin, a service of Montague Law PLLC for the cryptocurrency and virtual currency communities. This is a temporary online home for us  -- a new logo and website are currently in the works. Please feel free to browse this temporary site and to visit Montague Law's main website located at wmlex.com. Basic information about Bitcoin and virtual currency laws and regulations can be found on the Montague Law website here.

Will Montague

​Will Montague is an attorney in Lexington, Kentucky, who represents businesses and entrepreneurs in virtually all areas of intellectual property law, technology law, and business law. A former equity partner at two of the region's largest law firms with over twenty years of experience, he is rated AV® PreeminentTM by Martindale-Hubbell's Peer Review Ratings, the highest possible rating for a lawyer regarding legal ability and ethical standards. Will has represented businesses and individuals in a variety of industries for over twenty years, providing legal advice on a wide range of intellectual property and technology law matters. More information about Will's background and experience is available at the Montague Law website. 

Coin Legal Services

Montague Law's Coin service offers legal services in a wide variety of technology and intellectual property law areas for people in the Bitcoin and other virtual currency communities, including:

• federal and state regulation of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies

• business formation

• contract preparation and negotiation

• intellectual property advice, protection, and licensing

• intellectual property infringement and ownership 

• business and commercial disputes

• trademarks, service marks, and trade dress

• copyrights and the DMCA

• trade secrets and nondisclosure agreements

• privacy and publicity rights

• unfair competition and advertising

• technology licensing and litigation

• online privacy and cybersecurity

• software development and protection

• open source software

• internet commerce and online business transactions

• internet contracts and negotiations

• domain name rights

• cybersquatting claims

• UDRP proceedings

• user-generated content

• online ads and SEO

More information about legal fees and specific legal services is available at the Montague Law website.

News & Publications

January 23, 2014

BITCOIN 201: Legal Outlook for Business

Last Friday I attended a great Bitcoin 101 presentation hosted by Techbase10 and the guys at 212ths. Lamar Wilson of 212ths and Jim Francis of Francis Law Office provided wonderful overviews of Bitcoin from both the technical and entrepreneurial side (Lamar) and the legal side (Jim). The limited time frame, however, and the huge amount of information, necessarily kept the discussion at a very high level. In this post, I hope to expand a bit on how the law currently is applied to entrepreneurial businesses seeking to innovate with Bitcoin. As Jim made clear, the legal and regulatory landscape is still in a nascent state and very unsettled. There are, however, a few things that are starting to become more clear, which I hope to pass along here.