Intellectual Property

The DBM Intellectual Property Practice Group represents a wide variety of clients, including: multinational and offshore corporations, existing and startup U.S. corporations, advertisers, content distributors and individual creators by providing:

• Intellectual property litigation, arbitration and mediation
• Intellectual property protection counseling
• Intellectual property contract drafting and negotiation
• Transfers and sales of intellectual property
• Domain name acquisition, transfer and disputes
• Trade secret protection, corporate practices to preserve databases, client lists and preserve privacy
• Product development, advertising and marketing counsel
• Licenses, distribution agreements and franchises
• Fine art: counsel on ownership, collecting, display and sales of artworks
• Rights of publicity, defamation, content creation and distribution
• Advertising, architecture, art, broadcasting film, internet, media, music, literature, photography, satellite transmissions, software, sculpture and design and video
• Practice before U.S. Trademark Trials and Appeals Bureau, including contested trademark registration, opposition and cancellation proceedings

Practice Group Members

Partners:
Raymond J. Dowd
Michael J. Kopcsak
Steven E. Lewis
Carol A. Sigmond

of Counsel:
Francis J. Mooney, Jr.

Associates:
Alexandra Arneri

Corporate

Estates, Trusts and Private Clients

Immigration

Intellectual Property

Litigation and Arbitration

Not-For-Profit, Religious and Charitable Institutions

Real Estate and Construction

Taxation