Entertainment, Sports and Media

Representative Matters

–Assisted clients with the launch of new product lines by drafting non-disclosure agreements for potential business partners, work for hire agreements for contractors, terms of use and privacy policies for websites, sweepstakes, and contest rules, branding of new product lines domestically and internationally, reviewing marketing materials to ensure proper use of their intellectual property, and enforcing the clients’ intellectual property rights against others.

–Assisted various entertainment companies, including casino, nightclub, restaurant and bar owners and operators, and real estate developers and management companies in clearing title for property names, securing the rights associated with the names, licensing their intellectual property to others, and enforcing their rights against unauthorized users.

–Assisted production companies and artists in the licensing and distribution of their rights in live and recorded performances, television shows, and sporting and entertainment events by drafting production agreements, talent agreements, and rights of publicity and location releases, securing rights to perform music and other recordings at events, and registering the trademarks and copyrights embodied in the performances, shows, and events.

–Counseled talent and entertainment and sports companies regarding the licensing of their publicity rights and intellectual property to others for merchandising, endorsement, and sponsorship purposes and offering private label products and services.

–Counseled authors and other artists in clearing titles for books and other creative works.

–Assisted a network of foreign counsel to register trademarks in the European Union, Canada, Mexico, Macau, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa, Russia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Australia, Belize and elsewhere.

–Represented a large international sports entertainment company in numerous commercial, trademark, and copyright enforcement matters filed in state and federal courts, before the TTAB and internationally, resulting in favorable outcomes for the client.

–Identified various protectable aspects of the clients’ products, services, and concepts and in developing and managing their intellectual property portfolios.

–Resolved disputes over contested trademarks before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and enforcing clients’ intellectual property rights on the Internet.