• Kramer Levin’s Trademarks, Copyrights and Unfair Competition lawyers represent well-known actors, recording artists, photographers, fashion icons, emerging companies and global businesses in obtaining, protecting and enforcing their copyrights and trademarks, and in preventing unfair competition. We also help them develop and manage worldwide IP portfolios, develop terms and logos as trademarks and/or service marks, negotiate licensing agreements, and assert and defend infringement and unfair competition claims in U.S. and French court and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as well as before the French National Institute of Industrial Property and the European Union Intellectual Property Office.

    Our lawyers have been instrumental in securing copyrights and trademarks on a wide variety of content and in protecting IP assets that both define our clients’ brands and are vital to their enterprises’ value. We also help clients assess the validity and scope of protection and minimize the risks of infringement. Further, we facilitate worldwide filings for the global protection of our clients’ copyrights and trademarks.

    Our experience includes counseling on:

    • Domain name issues
    • Likelihood of confusion and secondary meaning of marks
    • Trade secret protection
    • Defamation and online indecency
    • E-commerce, online branding, and e-mail and social media risks and policies
    • Identify theft, data protection and other intellectual property issues arising in the online environment
    • Global branding initiatives

    Additionally, our IP litigators have extensive experience in prosecuting and defending actions under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act concerning false advertising, false designation of origin and counterfeiting, and in defending opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.