Maria Jose Rivera, Esq. Email & Phone Number

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

-Practicing in trademark, and copyright law in the areas of entertainment, arts and sports-Counseling clients in branding, including the prosecution of trademarks, logos and designs in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as well as trademark offices throughout the Caribbean-Trademark licensing, searches, oppositions/cancellations in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and domain name disputes in the National Arbitration Forum-Advising clients in trademark portfolio, proper use of marks and enforcement strategies-Entertainment representation includes production legal in film, tv and media

Miami, Florida, United States

•Counseling clients in IP portfolio, production legal and contracts.•Advising clients in the entertainment, arts and sports industries on various stages of development that include finance, distribution and compliance.•Negotiating and drafting contracts for IP acquisitions, production services, licensing and international distribution.•Managing content clearance, copyright releases and IP rights issues.•Developing business from social media marketing.•Collaborating legal service solutions via technology cloud space.•Serving on pro-bono Miami Lawyer for the Arts council as volunteer attorney

Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States

•Assisted IP team on all aspects of trademark and counterfeit practice, including preparing legal memoranda, attending negotiation conferences, reviewing trial records, researching, editing and assessing legal analysis.•Conducted research and drafted opinion on legal issues, including trademark infringement under the Lanham Act and various matters under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Miami, Florida

•Created internal system with in-house TV productions, digital and marketing to monitor high-volume edit clearances and governmental policy compliance.•Drafted, edited and negotiated terms of product license agreement PLA for company affiliates including programming, digital and content partners.•Produced monthly analysis of domestic region media rights volume to senior legal management and streaming platform.•Researched regulatory issues, standards and practices procedure for policy development purposes, including for internal company-wide orientation.•Conducted due diligence on media clearances and sports brand partnership guidelines.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

•Analyzed contracts for media rights management and music affairs interpretation. •Produced internal reports for distribution deals. •Interpreted contract terms for title clearance and acquisitions for international distribution.

Greater Boston Area

Assisted in various aspects of IP matters that include advising ,conducting research, drafting motions and representing trademark and copyright clients before Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and U.S. copyright clearance for film distribution.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Assisted in various aspects of advising international companies for world trade in the energy sector and foreign arbitration that include conducting research, drafting legal documents, and producing presentations for firm-wide guidance.

Boston, Ma

Conducted legal research for law review article in Global Internet Law.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Intellectual Property Law

Activities and Societies: Honors: Intellectual Property Concentration Activities: Intellectual Property Law School Association, VP.

Master Of Laws (Llm), Entertainment, Arts And Sports Law

Activities and Societies: LLM in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Track: Entertainment Law Activities: NBCUniversal Telemundo Legal.

Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature

Activities and Societies: Activities: FIU International Programs, Study Abroad in Florence, Italy

Summer Program, Law

Activities and Societies: Summer Prelaw Program in New York, NY Activities: Barnard College, Office of the General Counsel Summer Legal.