LITIGATION

Given our firm’s focus, we regularly appear in copyright and trademark infringement actions, entertainment industry litigations, art law disputes, litigation over false advertising claims and appear in other licensing, contractual and similar disputes. We also regularly file briefs in appellate litigation, including in the Supreme Court of the United States, often by filing amicus briefs on behalf of industry groups and other participants.

Our litigators have obtained numerous notable decisions, such as dismissal of all false advertising claims against a publisher who used an author's pseudonym and author statements to promote a novel, Antidote International Films, Inc. v. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, et al.; a successful jury verdict, including damages, attorney's fees and injunction in a highly contested dispute over the name of a prestigious dance competition, Mary De La Torre Bueno Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc.; Amicus briefs in Perfect 10 v. Google (9th Cir.) and Cartoon Network v. Cablevision Systems Corporation (U.S. Sup. Ct.) and various other cases.

Other notable decisions are included in the biographies of individual attorneys. All our litigators have trial experience and also conduct proceedings in front of administrative bodies, such as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Examples of our proactive litigation approach are described in our litigation attorneys’ profiles, and typically concern copyright litigation, music and feature films, publishing and theatre, television, anti-counterfeiting enforcement, trademark and licensing, digital media, photography and art and commercial litigation.