Practice Areas || INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PRACTICE

Our attorneys have extensive experience in transactions involving intellectual property of all kinds – trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and domain names, with a particular depth of experience in publishing and art law. We have represented book and magazine publishers, authors and literary agents, software companies, and intellectual property owners in a variety of industries including entertainment (music, television, fashion, film and publishing), consumer electronics, food and beverages, finance, software, high-tech, cosmetics and clothing.

We have handled for our clients such matters as: foreign and domestic preparation and prosecution of trademark and copyright applications; trademark availability letters; trademark and copyright infringement analysis and prosecution; trademark oppositions; Patent and Trademark Office proceedings; Copyright Office proceedings; trademark cancellations; securitization of copyrights, trademarks, software, patents, and technology; licensing of copyrights, trademarks, software, patents, and technology; handling U.S. Customs issues with respect to counterfeiting; domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, assignments, collateralization, licensing, due diligence, and opinions concerning all forms of intellectual property; and strategic planning in connection with protecting and exploiting intellectual property rights.

Our litigators have assisted our clients in protecting their trademarks, copyrights, patents, domain names and other intellectual property and in defending claims of infringement. Our attorneys have handled pre-dispute advice and planning, international regulatory planning and actual litigation of disputes. We have litigated copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secret cases at all levels of the federal courts in the United States, including the United States Supreme Court, and have published extensively on intellectual property issues and related business considerations.