Represented the owner of the rights to the famous Dick and Jane reading primer, a Pearson Education subsidiary, in trademark and copyright litigation against the authors of Yiddish With Dick and Jane. When efforts to settle the case prior to filing a complaint were not successful, we filed a complaint against the New York based publisher in California where the individual authors and illustrators resided. In response to the defendants request to transfer the case to New York, we agreed provided the parties entered into non-binding mediation. This creative approach ended successfully.

Represented Chippendales in trademark infringement suit against manufacturer and distributor of Chickendales slot machine. Resulted in a successful settlement of the case, including a monetary recovery.

Represented declaratory judgment plaintiff, Pearson Education, accused of trademark infringement and dilution. Successfully defended against efforts by defendants to litigate matter in New York as opposed to Maryland, including favorable ruling on appeal to the Fourth Circuit. Supervised drafting of papers to successfully prevent production of plaintiff's search report and opinion letter.

Represented Banque Audi, one of the largest consumer banks in Lebanon that also does business in the U.S. and whose name is identical to a major car manufacturer. Shortly after the passage of the U.S Federal Trademark Dilution Act, the car manufacturer sued the bank for both trademark infringement and dilution. We developed a defense that revolved around showing that since the majority of the Banks' customers in the U.S. were natives of the Middle East, their use of the Banks' name did not dilute the strength of the manufacturer's mark because this population based on its middle eastern roots would distinguish between the bank and the car company. A survey commissioned by our team substantiated these findings. On the eve of trial the court granted the car manufacture summary judgment on its dilution claim but sue sponte reversed his decision during trial when he heard the testimony of the bank's survey's expert. The case settled on an amicable basis after trial.

Represented the owner of a landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City in connection with multiple licenses for use of the image of this property in commercials, movies, plays, catalogues and photo shoots.

Negotiated co-existing licensing agreement between one of the largest U.S. commercial banks and an U.K. investment group with respect to worldwide rights in and to an identical mark used by each party as its corporate name.

Negotiated international apparel company’s exclusivity multimillion primary sponsorship of a major racing series event including resolution of complex issues where the apparel company and racing association might have different perspectives on what type of secondary sponsorships are appropriate in light of cultural differences in racing and apparel industries.

Represented large metropolitan health care provider that included four suburban hospitals in complex negotiations with acclaimed medical school over creation of enlarged health system network combining resources of both. The deal involved complex mechanisms for deciding issues when the two original parties did not agree. Towards the end of the negotiations the medical school suggested that the new network use its name as the name of the new network and offered a royalty free license. As trademark counsel for the health care provider we recognized, however, that this trademark license which would include “standard quality control” provisions would allow the medical school to circumvent the highly negotiated terms for resolving issues when the two parties did not agree and were able to obtain appropriate assurances that blocked the medical school from using the trademark license to essentially negate the highly negotiated deadlock provisions.

Served as special counsel to a Fortune 100 financial services company with respect to it's change of name arising out of a merger and supervised the introduction of seven expert survey reports in a expedited trial in the district of New Jersey leading to published decision finding no infringement.

Successfully obtained summary judgment for provider of video services to horse racing association stating that its retention of union work force and non-union supervisors previously employed by plaintiff did not constitute theft of trade secrets or breach of covenant not to compete.

Successfully represented a large financial company in trademark litigation against a defendant for using our client’s trademark as part of a fraudulent money laundering scheme.

Represented a large apparel company in favorable settlement of claim that it was not infringing a trademark troll's registered mark by using it as a "style" name for various items of clothing.