Practice.

Our copyright practice includes prosecution, counseling, DMCA takedowns, pre-litigation disputes, and litigation.

We represent content creators and acquirors, helping them evaluate, protect, and enforce their copyrights. We advise during the development process to maximize copyright protection and mitigate the risk of third-party claims, as well as help obtain U.S. copyright registrations. We regularly file plaintiff-side copyright litigation and have a strong track record of wins. We also have substantial experience with DMCA takedowns across a wide variety of distribution platforms, including Apple, Google and Roblox.

We help clients who are accused of infringement, frequently resolving disputes well before they reach litigation through creative risk mitigation strategies. We also regularly defend our clients in litigation, typically resolving infringement claims well before trial or even before discovery.

Our patent litigation practice includes both litigation and pre-litigation disputes.

We represent technology companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 200 companies in federal courts across the country, including the Northern District of California, the District of Delaware, the Western and Eastern Districts of Texas, and the Federal Circuit. Our practice includes asserting and defending against patent claims in high-stakes disputes between competitors and against suits brought by NPEs.

We also regularly evaluate and respond to patent licensing demands sent to our clients, as well as offer strategies for lowering the risk of infringement or willfulness claims.

We represent companies and innovators in high stakes disputes over trade secrets. Our practice in this area includes pursuing claims on behalf of our clients whose trade secrets have been misused, as well as defending departing employees or founders who have been accused of misappropriation. Our team’s deep technical and industry knowledge is a critical component of our track record in this area, since the ability to understand how the technology at issue was created, used, and maintained is essential to prosecuting or defending a misappropriation claim.

We also regularly advise our clients on thorny employee mobility issues, helping companies implement robust onboarding and exit procedures to guard against the theft of their most valuable assets, and helping founders and innovators understand what they can and cannot do when moving to a new company.

Our trademark practice includes both strategic counseling and litigation. Our counseling practice includes advising on branding, advertising, cybersquatting, dilution and trademark use, offering both enforcement and risk mitigation/defense strategies. We handle pre-litigation disputes ranging from cease and desists to platform disputes (trademark-based takedown requests) to UDRP proceedings, involving disputes over the use of trademarks in domain names.

On the litigation front, we represent companies, innovators, and entrepreneurs in both the prosecution and defense of trademark disputes, including both federal (Lanham Act) and state law claims for infringement, dilution, and false advertising. We also handle disputes over trademark rights in the TTAB.

We handle a wide variety of business disputes, including pre-litigation disputes, state and federal court litigations, and arbitrations. Our practice in this area is broad, ranging from contract and licensing disputes between business partners to business torts asserted against our clients by competitors or consumers. We regularly prosecute and defend against claims for false advertising, unfair competition, unfair business practices, violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, violations of privacy (including the right of publicity), defamation and trade libel, and antitrust violations.

We guide clients through the ever-changing landscape of novel consumer class action theories. Our work in this area is defense-side only, representing companies in putative class actions filed by consumers that challenge aspects of their business practices. We handle class actions filed in both state and federal court, as well as arbitrations, and have defended against a wide variety of claims ranging from garden variety to high stakes false advertising and unfair competition claims, to more complex, novel claims premised on alleged privacy violations, including the recent wave of class actions brought under the Video Protection Privacy Act (VPPA) and California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). We have a strong track record of defeating would-be class actions well before the class certification stage, and often before discovery even opens, thereby minimizing the cost, burden, and risk for our clients. Our success results from diligent, early fact investigation, proactive risk mitigation strategies, and creative case management strategies and motion practice.

Our privacy practice includes counseling, pre-litigation disputes, and litigation in state and federal courts including class action defense, and arbitrations. Our counseling practices includes advising on privacy policies, privacy practices and implementing privacy principles in the development of products.

On the litigation front, we represent companies facing novel theories of liability premised on alleged privacy violations, including the recent wave of class actions brought under the Video Protection Privacy Act (VPPA) and California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).