IP Litigation

We defend the intellectual property rights of domestic and foreign technology and life sciences clients, publicly-traded multinational corporations and startup ventures. The controversies that we resolve in federal and state courts include: patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret litigation, non-competition litigation, inventorship and licensing disputes and other complex commercial litigation, including antitrust, unfair competition and product liability. Our litigators also proactively counsel clients on litigation risk management, pre-litigation analysis and assessment and negotiated dispute resolution before arbitrators and mediators across the country.

Practice Profile - Patents (PDF)

Practice Profile - Trademarks, Copyright & Licensing (PDF)

Representative Client Work

Served as litigation and dispute resolution counsel for companies from a wide spectrum of industries around the world, including:

• A renowned New York City restaurant in a trademark dispute against a competitor seeking to open a restaurant in midtown Manhattan under a similar name; obtained an injunction for our client preventing the other restaurant from using the name 
• An international manufacturer and distributor of vegetarian and kosher foods in a civil action in federal court in Michigan brought against it by a leading producer of packaged foods alleging our client’s packaging for a certain line of frozen food products infringed the company’s packaging
• A leading manufacturer of swimming pool cleaning chemicals in litigating and successfully settling a patent infringement lawsuit
• An international eyewear company in successfully resolving numerous IP and licensing disputes, including dismissal of alleged trade dress infringement relating to Ray-Ban sunglasses