Our Trademark attorneys are experts at brand protection. We assist clients on a daily basis with the selection and registration of trademarks in the United States and around the globe. We also regularly work with clients on transactional matters, including licensing transactions, asset management and holding company initiatives, joint ventures, supply and distribution agreements and sponsorship and other marketing arrangements. In addition, we are actively involved in helping our clients to defend and exploit their trademark rights in litigation in the federal and state courts, the United States Trademark Office and UDRP domain name proceedings.
ATTORNEYS
John B Greenberg
Charla M Claypool
William A Rearden
REPRESENTATIVE ONGOING TRANSACTIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- We manage international trademark portfolios for businesses ranging from small regional operations to Fortune 500 companies
- For a leading beer manufacturer, we assist with licensing its famous brands through sponsorship and other licensing arrangements
- For a national chain of theme parks, we negotiate and document myriad sponsorship and other licensing arrangements
REPRESENTATIVE LITIGATION EXPERIENCE:
- For our franchisor clients, we successfully prosecuted numerous trademark infringement claims in litigation against terminated hold-over franchisees
- For one of the nation's largest amateur sports associations, we successfully defended the sports association in litigation that a sponsor of the association brought in an effort to force the association to stop another sponsor from marketing competitive products bearing the association’s trademarks
- For a regional candy manufacturer, we successfully defended the candy manufacturer against a trademark infringement claim in litigation that the country’s largest candy manufacturer brought in an effort to put the regional manufacturer out of business