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Trademarks, Copyrights and Unfair Competition

We help clients throughout the United States, Europe and around the world protect and enforce their trademarks and copyrights, and battle unfair competition.

  • 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.

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  • Perspectives

    • Announcements
      May 18, 2018
      Kramer Levin Ranked by Managing Intellectual Property in Copyright and Patent Categories
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    • Announcements
      April 11, 2017
      Paul Andre and Jonathan Caplan Appointed Co-chairs of Kramer Levin’s Intellectual Property Practice
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    • Client Alerts
      June 12, 2014
      Advertising Alert: In Second Major Lanham Act Opinion of Term, Supreme Court Confirms Plaintiffs' Ability to Challenge Food and Beverage Labeling as False or Misleading Advertising
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  • Recognition

    2010 – 2024
    U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers’ Best Law Firms
    Ranked in Tier 1 for Intellectual Property Litigation (New York); Recognized for Patent Litigation (National, San Jose); Patent Law (National, New York)
    2013, 2016-2019
    Managing Intellectual Property
    Recommended for Patent Contentious and highly recommended for Copyright
    2016, 2020
    Docket Navigator
    Ranked in Top Ten for PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
    2015
    The Daily Journal
    Named to The Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Finjan Inc.
    2015
    National Law Journal
    Named to National Law Journal’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2015 for Representation of Prism Technologies
    2014-2016, 2018
    Global Law Experts
    Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year
    2014-2015
    Corporate INTL Magazine
    Named California IP Litigation Law Firm of the Year

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