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Trademarks & Copyrights Experience
- Assisting trademark and service mark clients in resolving domain name disputes under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’s (ICANN) Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
- Participating in the due diligence, documentation, and integration phases of multimillion-dollar acquisitions of start-up companies by multinational pharmaceutical companies.
- Successfully defending a client in a design patent infringement case involving a fashion/apparel item. The jury found that the patent did not infringe.
- Conducting a cost/benefit analysis to determine a global trademark registration strategy for a consumer product company. Then, using our network of foreign associates, we executed the strategy with filings under the European Union and Madrid Protocol and other significant countries.
- Policing at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and regularly monitoring and challenging trademark applications for retail and consumer product companies.
- Assessing the relative strengths of potentially competing trademark claims and obtaining cease and desist agreements.
- Defending trademark applications in Opposition proceedings in both the United States and Europe for biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical products.
- Prosecuting U.S. and foreign trademark applications for biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical products.
- Managing a portfolio of trademarks for a diversified healthcare and medical device company, including preparing freedom to use opinions for trademarks, registering marks in the U.S. and a number of foreign countries, policing and enforcing trademark rights, and conducing adversary trademark proceeding here and abroad to enforce trademark rights.
- Prosecuting a trademark application for a biopharmaceutical company for an anthrax treatment including evaluating clinical trials to ascertain that the mark was in use.
