Areas of Practice

Our attorneys advise clients on the selection and use of trademarks, including conducting trademark availability searches, preparing legal opinions, negotiating and drafting licenses, and monitoring for trademark infringement. We also facilitate U.S. and non-U.S. trademark registration and manage clients’ global trademark portfolios. Clients turn to us for advice on domain name and social media handle issues, and other new media identifiers. We also assist with monitoring for trademark infringement and enforcing and defending trademark rights. Our work involves all legal aspects of brand strategy, including managing clients’ global trademark portfolios.

Our team is known for our enforcement and defense of trademark, trade dress and domain name rights in federal court, before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and in arbitration panels, including UDRP proceedings.

We advise clients on copyright law, facilitate copyright registration and defend our clients in court in connection with copyright-related matters. Our team is also frequently called upon to negotiate and draft copyright agreements for a range of works – for example, books, databases, digital content, fabric and wallpaper design, fragrance, jewelry, software and works of visual art.

Our team negotiates and drafts a variety of trademark, brand, copyright, trade secret, right of publicity, and trade dress licenses, and related agreements. This includes licenses for things like software and content usage, in addition to agreements tied to publishing, product distribution and celebrity endorsements. We also handle issues related to information governance and compliance with various data privacy laws around the world as they arise in contracts.

We help our clients navigate the rules of engagement for advertising and marketing, which have gotten increasingly more complex and technologically driven. Our team crafts agreements for client use with website development, e-commerce, marketing and advertising, product distribution, merchandising and vendors.

We rigorously defend and enforce our clients’ intellectual property rights, representing them in IP-related contract disputes as well as in federal court, at arbitration panels and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. This includes drafting cease-and-desist letters and co-existence agreements, as well as negotiating favorable resolutions for a wide range of disputes.