430 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 2005), cert. denied, 126 S. Ct. 2969 (2006)
In the first judicial treatment of the new termination right enacted in the U.S. Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, 17 U.S.C. § 304 (d), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision rejecting an attempt by Disney and Clare Milne to cut off client Stephen Slesinger,More
Opp. No. 91118587 (T.T.A.B. 2006)
The firm secured a decision in favor of The Tea Board of India, owner of the DARJEELING geographic certification mark for tea, in its opposition against a trademark application for DARJEELING NOUVEAU, covering tea, of Republic of Tea.More
132 Fed.Appx. 267 (11th Cir. 2005)
The Firm obtained summary judgment on collateral estoppel grounds for defendants Kensington Publishing Corp. and author and former DEA agent Jerry Speziale on claims brought by Paul Lir Alexander for invasion of privacy and violation of right of publicity by Speziale’s inclusion of information about Alexander’s role as a DEA informant in his book Without a Badge.More
396 F.3d 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a successful opposition brought by our client, Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in which it claimed that VEUVE ROYALE is confusingly similar to VEUVE CLICQUOT,More
307 F. Supp. 2d 521 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 23, 2004)
We argued defendant Berkshire Information Systems, Inc.’s successful motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s claims under the Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).More
No. BC 251828 (Cal. Super. Ct. Jan. 5, 2004)
We won summary adjudication on behalf of defendants, The Jim Henson Company, Simon & Schuster, Inc. and Viacom Inc., in an idea submission case brought by two individuals in Los Angeles Superior Court.More
317 F.Supp.2d 485 (S.D.N.Y. 2004)
We defeated a preliminary injunction motion on behalf of well-known restaurateur, Jeffrey Chodorow, and his company. The plaintiffs, who operated a neighboring restaurant featuring the Japanese cuisine of chef Tadashi Ono, sought to prevent Chodorow from opening a Japanese restaurant named ONO in the newly opened Hotel Gansevoort in New York City’s meatpacking district.More
336 F. Supp. 2d 324 (S.D.N.Y. 2004)
We defeated a motion for summary judgment filed by the lock manufacturer, Kryptonite Corporation. In ruling for DC Comics, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that DC Comics owns strong rights in the KRYPTONITE mark,More
335 F. Supp. 2d 412 (S.D.N.Y. 2004)
We obtained a preliminary injunction against ice cream company, CoolBrands, on behalf of the firm’s client, Frozfruit. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that Frozfruit was likely to prevail on the merits of its claim that CoolBrands’More
306 F. Supp. 2d 468 (S.D.N.Y. 2004)
We won a decision in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing a trade dress infringement claim brought against our firm’s client, Babelito, an Argentine manufacturer of products for infants, on the ground that the defendant had not been properly served in the United States.More
