Eugene Pak Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

• In July 2022, Wendel Rosen merged with Fennemore Craig and we are now known as Fennemore Wendel in the Bay Area. Fennemore is an AmLaw 200 firm with over 200 attorneys in several offices. "Fennemore’s client-focused.
• Serve as outside general counsel to clients, advising on contracts, licenses, financing, IP, corporate, commercial transactions, advertising & marketing, and employment issues.
• Represented breweries in sale or acquistion of other breweries, including three transactions in the first half of 2023.
• Represented large craft brewery as plaintiff in Lanham Act trademark infringement action in federal district court; obtained consent permanent injunction.
• Advised craft breweries and other alcohol beverage industry clients on wide range of legal issues.
• Represent computer gaming companies in TM prosecution and dispute matters, and domain name matters.

Oakland, CA

Eugene heads up the Craft Breweries & Brewpubs practice at Fennemore Wendel (formerly Wendel Rosen). Eugene serves as outside general counsel, advising craft breweries on a wide range of issues from entity formation, financing, trademarks and copyrights, distribution agreements and other contracts, employment issues, alcohol beverage (ABC) and labeling.

• DLA Piper is an international law firm with over 4,200 attorneys in offices worldwide. Eugene worked in DLA Piper’s San Francisco office where he was a member of the Intellectual Property group, advising clients on a.
• Represented leading craft brewery as plaintiff in Lanham Act trademark infringement action in federal district court; obtained consent permanent injunction.
• Represented television set-top box manufacturer in copyright infringement action involving BusyBox open source software and GNU General Public License (GPLv2).
• Represented a large manufacture of networking hardware and software products in anti-counterfeiting disputes and enforcement efforts.
• Advised large Indian textile and clothing company on potential acquisition of U.S. maker of linens and towels; performed due diligence on potential acquisitions as to key trademark license agreements with major brands.
• Represented apparel company in trademark infringement dispute and proceeding involving mark and logos.

• Steinhart & Falconer was a premier San Francisco boutique firm with a leading IP and media law practice. Steinhart merged into Piper Rudnick LLP (later becoming DLA Piper). Some of Steinhart & Falconer’s IP clients.
• Defended office products company in trade secret litigation involving use of customer lists and information; engaged in expedited discovery and successfully limited scope of TRO and injunction.
• Negotiated a trademark license agreement relating to distribution and publication of music used in computer games.
• Counsel for a newswire service in trade secret litigation; obtained a preliminary injunction requiring former employee to cease working for competitor and from using customer information.
• Represented a leading Silicon Valley content management software firm in copyright litigation involving the scope of a software license agreement.
• Represented a well-known Napa Valley winery in Lanham Act litigation against a Canadian wine kit manufacturer.

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• Cooley LLP is a leading Silicon Valley firm with offices in key business and technology centers across the country. Eugene was resident in the San Francisco office, a member of the Trademark, Advertising & Copyright.
• Advised numerous start-ups and emerging technology companies on trademark and copyright matters, and domain name disputes.
• Represented an online document delivery service in class action copyright infringement litigation involving indexing and delivery of copies of print articles.
• Represented book publisher in copyright infringement action by author of “how-to” books.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Steefel, Levitt & Weiss was a highly respected mid-size litigation and business firm based in San Francisco which merged into Manatt Phelps. Eugene was a member of the litigation group and served a pro bono liaison.
• Represented California Food and Agriculture Department in litigation regarding milk nutritional labeling and pooling regulations, and successful appeal to Ninth Circuit.
• Represented leading cereal maker in class action antitrust and unfair competition litigation; obtained summary judgment.
• Counsel for a leading investment brokerage firm in an employment discrimination class action and related breach of duty of loyalty counterclaim; successfully compelled arbitration to avoid class claims, prevailed on.
• Represented leading pharmaceutical companies in class action antitrust and unfair competition litigation.
• Defended brokerage firm in NASD arbitration involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty, "churning," and related claims; obtained award in defendant's favor.

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Activities and Societies: California Law Review (CLR), Associate Editor; Asian American Law Students Association, Political Issues Chair.

B.A., English Literature; Psychology

Activities and Societies: The Michigan Daily, Minority Issues Reporter; Univ. of Michigan Asian Student Association (UMASC), Programming &.