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I focus my practice on litigation, protecting and defending my clients’ products and IP rights against infringement. I have extensive experience in litigating actions to obtain domain names under ICANN’s dispute resolution procedure and have an active counseling and prosecution practice. Additionally, I coordinate major corporate acquisitions involving the worldwide transfer of patents, trademarks and copyrights, and negotiate a wide variety of intellectual property agreements, such as licenses, trademark coexistence agreements, and joint ventures. In addition, I counsel clients on IP matters relating, for example, to Internet issues and the selection of new trademarks and domain names. I represent clients from a wide range of industries, including computer hardware and software, consumer electronics, financial services, apparel, nutritional supplements, personal care products, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals. With more than 30 years’ experience, my representative experience includes:- Toyota as defendant in a well known trademark dilution and infringement case involving the LEXUS mark- MuscleTech, a leading nutritional supplement company, in a trademark and copyright counterfeiting case, which resulted in a multi-million dollar judgment and criminal indictments and convictions brought by the U.S. Attorney- BASF Corporation in a trade dress litigation, which at the time established the Ninth Circuit’s rule that a single color is not generally protectable under the U.S. Trademark Act- Heidelberg Harris in a case that resulted in a jury verdict of infringement of two printing press patents and a multi-million dollar damages award for Harris- Ozzy Osbourne in a litigation concerning ownership of the well known Black Sabbath trademark Furthermore, I am experienced mediator and member of the International Trademark Association’s Panel of Neutrals, and have served as an arbitrator under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association.

Listed skills include Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Copyright Law, Litigation, and 11 others.