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Robert Lerma
Camarillo, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 26 years of experience
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Andrew Jay Kulick
Santa Clarita, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 35 years of experience
IP
Univ of West Los Angeles
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Joel Richard Strote
Thousand Oaks, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 60 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Trademarks
Northwestern Univ School of Law
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Alex D Patel
Encino, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP and Trademarks
Pepperdine University
Alex Patel, concentrates his practice on the full spectrum of trademark prosecution and litigation, representing individuals and corporations. As a specialist in trademark litigation and domain disputes, he counsels his clients in all phases of disputes on both routine and complex infringment matters.
Mr. Patel prosecutes trademark applications at the USPTO, and has successfully represented clients in federal court, and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in ex parte appeals, oppositions, and cancellations.
He has successfully represented clients in ICANN domain name dispute proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He also has experience practicing in the Central District...
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Paul D. Chancellor
Simi Valley, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer
IP and Patents
Southwestern Law School
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Adam Louis Diament
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 15 years of experience
IP, Patents and Trademarks
University of San Diego School of Law
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M. Kala Sarvaiya
Westlake Village, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 19 years of experience
(805) 230-1350
310 N Westlake Blvd., Suite 120
Westlake Village, CA 91362
IP
Loyola Law School
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Michael Jay Ram
Bell Canyon, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 51 years of experience
IP, International, Patents and Trademarks
Seton Hall Univ School of Law
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Alex Patel
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 25 years of experience
IP
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
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Marina Lang
Oxnard, CA Intellectual Property Attorney
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Timothy Crawford
Calabasas, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer
IP, Business and Real Estate
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Doug Bend
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Real Estate and Trademarks
Georgetown University Law Center
Doug is the founder of Bend Law Group, PC, a boutique law firm focused on advising small businesses and startups.
Prior to opening Bend Law Group, PC, Doug was a corporate attorney for a law firm in New York City. He also served as a Judicial Clerk for the Nebraska Supreme Court and the Superior Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Before law school, Doug was a Legislative Assistant for U.S. Representative David Price, where he managed a portfolio of issues including tax and small business.
Raised in Omaha, Doug is a graduate of Drake University where he graduated summa cum laude...
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Marin Cionca
Orange, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Patents and Trademarks
Concord Law School
Since 2009, Mr. Cionca is a registered patent attorney and founder of CIONCA IP Law P.C. ("CIONCA IP"), an intellectual property law practice based in Irvine, Orange County, California. He has an extensive technical background having graduated from a five-year European engineering program, having practical engineering experience and having taught College Physics. He helps clients with patent application and prosecution matters in various technologies including, engineering, computer, software, mechanical, physics-related and medical device technologies.
He also helps startups and businesses acquire and enforce their intellectual property rights in patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other IP, such as by sending cease...
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Matthew Swanlund
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 24 years of experience
(310) 486-6958
12777 W Jefferson Blvd
Building D, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Based in Los Angeles, I assist individuals and businesses throughout Southern California and the nation with a diverse range of entertainment law matters, from contract negotiations to intellectual property protection. My clients comprise celebrities, artists, sports figures and performers, along with businesses and government entities. I am committed to offering each of these clients tailored, effective solutions by applying my 15 years of experience at a large law firm to every case. I regularly help my clients negotiate the production, distribution and licensing of their art, motion pictures, software and other products. I also assist creative artists in registering...
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Michael Cohen
Beverly Hills, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
Southwestern University School of Law
Mr. Cohen is the founder and principal of the Cohen IP Law Group, P.C. His practice involves intellectual property, business and entertainment law.
Mr. Cohen is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney and is experienced in all phases of IP litigation relating to patent infringement validity and enforceability, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and interference with contractual relations. He specializes in matters involving UDRP proceedings, cybersquatting, and other domain name issues, and has successfully obtained preliminary injunctions against cybersquatters.
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Steve Charles Vondran
Santa Monica, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Communications, Entertainment & Sports and Trademarks
Whittier Law School
Our law firm is a leader in intellectual property and piracy law. We have handled more software audits and torrent defense lawsuits than most other firms combined. We have a niche speciality practice in copyright infringement law and handle the following types of cases:
1. Software Audits and Licensing Disputes (Business Software Alliance, BSA, SIIA, Vero, Siemens, Solidworks, Autodesk, Adobe and Microsoft)
2. Torrent Defense Cases (ex. Malibu Media pornography, Flava Works and Strike 3 Holdings, LLC BitTorrent litigation cases in California Federal Court in the Southern, Central, Eastern and Northern District)
3. TV Signal Piracy cases (boxing...
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Lindsay Gunn Spiller
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 38 years of experience
(415) 991-7298
595 Pacific Avenue
Fourth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94133
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Estate Planning
Georgetown University Law Center
Spiller Law is a business, estate planning and entertainment law firm located in San Francisco, California.
Business:
We serve small to medium-sized businesses in the areas of contracts, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, partnership agreements, corporate formation and dispute resolution. We have advised businesses in involved in aviation, finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, real estate, music, film, and television.
Estate Planning:
We work with individuals and couples to create simple to sophisticated estate plans, depending on their needs.
Entertainment Law:
We advise film/TV, new media, and music clients as to business planning, business formation, contract negotiation, and licensing
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Pierre Zado
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business and Communications
Valparaiso University
Astute business professional with a track record of influencing, negotiating, supporting and interacting with senior management. Excels at resolving complex issues, developing critical business solutions, and delivering robust analysis and guidance. For the last 10 years, I've counseled clients on various technology and intellectual property matters. Participated in six acquisitions (4 for buyer and two as target) with an aggregate deal value over $10 billion.
As a business professional, I've been involved and/or responsible for managing deal flow and partnership agreements spanning across IOT, Fintech, Logistics, Medical and Enterprise 3.0 industries totaling approximately $100 million over the last 7 years....
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Dan W Kehr
Huntington Beach , CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 19 years of experience
(714) 375-6622
17011 Beach Blvd. Huntington Beach, CA 92647
9th Floor
Huntington Beach , CA 92647
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Estate Planning and Trademarks
California Western School of Law and UCLA School of Law
What makes me unique is that I am both a Business Owner and a Corporate & Business Law Attorney. I actually started my first business at age 8 when I launched “Dan’s Bird Farm.”
As the owner of the Kehr Business Law PC, I provide business, corporate general counsel, technology, Internet, e-commerce and tax law, as well as trust, will, estate and succession planning legal services. I founded, managed and have run my own law firm for over 17 years. My experience as a business owner makes me uniquely suited to approach legal representation from the business owner’s perspective. I...
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Sonya Tien
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Personal Injury
Columbia Law School
Sonya Tien leads her law firm's litigation, corporate, personal injury, and intellectual property practices.
She received her law degree from Columbia University and was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Sonya received her business degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan Flagler Business School, where she earned 17 scholarships.
Sonya was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers since 2020, Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiffs' Lawyers, and Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers by The National Trial Lawyers. Her articles have been published by the Wall Street Lawyer and Practising Law Institute. She has presented on the...
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Feras Mousilli
San Francisco, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP and Communications
Feras Mousilli is a founding partner of Lloyd & Mousilli and regularly advises business clients on a range of technology law issues. He specializes in counseling technology companies from start-ups in their early formation and development, through support of multi-billion dollar business operations of the largest companies in the world.
Mr. Mousilli has served as Senior Corporate Counsel for both Apple Inc. and Dell Inc., where he counseled clients on product development and intellectual property matters, including advertising & marketing, copyright, and trademark strategies and risks. Prior to serving as corporate counsel, Mr. Mousilli practiced with DLA Piper in the intellectual...
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Kevin R. Martin
Pleasanton, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Appeals, Business and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University
Over his 18 years of practice in the Bay Area, Kevin Martin has developed a reputation as a fair- minded but tough negotiator representing client’s interests in intellectual property, business, real estate and personal injury actions. Kevin’s practice includes trademark, copyright and patent litigation, prosecution, licensing, business disputes, commercial litigation, personal injury claims, employer/employee disputes, trade secret and unfair competition claims, real estate litigation, contract disputes, and general advice and counsel. Mr. Martin maintains a regular blog on legal and other issues at www.landshark5000.wordpress.com. Mr. Martin regularly appears in both State and Federal Courts throughout California, before the Trademark...
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Lynne M.J. Boisineau
Westminster, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP and Trademarks
Whittier Coll School of Law
I focus my practice on trademark prosecution, counseling, enforcement and licensing, as well as providing trademark litigation support and Right of Publicity and copyright protection. I assist clients with social media problems and Amazon Brand Registry issues. I have significant experience in domain name proceedings under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) System. I earned a ranking in the World Trademark Review 1000: The World's Leading Trademark Professionals (2014-2018). And I co-authored the Right of Publicity Chapter of the ABA's book on digital content and intellectual property issues.
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Karima Gulick
Irvine, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 9 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Patents and Trademarks
Western State College of Law at Argosy University
Karima is an intellectual property lawyer and registered patent attorney. Karima litigates and helps clients obtain patents and trademarks in diverse industries. She helps business owners build, strengthen, and protect their brands and ideas. She has experience in all areas of intellectual property law including trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, domain name disputes, and eBay disputes. Karima brings a unique perspective to intellectual property issues drawing on years of engineering and managerial experience.
Need help protecting or enforcing your ideas? Contact us at 949-429-0212 or email karima@kgulick.com
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Robert P. Cogan
San Diego, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 38 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
George Washington Univ LS
Extensive experience in patents, high tech business, all software matters, and international transactions. Providing established companies and startups with clear legal advice on which sound business decisions may be based. Extensive in-house experience working with line and executive management to solve operating and strategic problems. Operating management experience. Frequent lecturer before professional groups and CLE classes.
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Joseph Trojan
Beverly Hills, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Joe Trojan is a registered Patent Attorney and Trial Lawyer in Los Angeles with more than 32 years experience obtaining and enforcing patents and trademarks throughout the world for his clients worldwide.
Holding degrees in Biological Sciences as well as in Law, Mr. Trojan’s practice has a particular focus in the life science technologies including biotechnology, medical devices, organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals and more. He also has represented clients in various industries: mechanical, chemical, manufacturing, retail, apparel, retail, commerce, and software. He drafts and negotiates licensing agreement.
As an accomplished trial lawyer, Mr. Trojan has extensive experience litigating patents, trademarks,...
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Mark B. Wilson
Newport Beach, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 35 years of experience
IP, Business, Legal Malpractice and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
A seasoned trial attorney and skilled negotiator, Mark B. Wilson has won nearly every case he has tried and arbitrated. Mr. Wilson lost only one jury trial and obtained a complete reversal on appeal. Mr. Wilson represents clients in federal and state courts in a variety of matters, including business litigation, legal malpractice, real estate, trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement, construction disputes, and commercial unlawful detainer.
Mr. Wilson’s victories include a $2.25 million jury verdict in a premises liability case, a $1.85 million dollar jury verdict in a breach of shareholder agreement case, a $1.8 million binding arbitration award in...
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Melvin N.A. Avanzado
Pasadena, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 35 years of experience
(310) 552-9300
The Walnut Plaza
215 North Marengo Avenue, Third Floor
Pasadena, CA 91101
IP, Business, Employment and Entertainment & Sports
University of Notre Dame
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Melvin N.A. Avanzado is the principal of The Avanzado Law Firm, APLC. Mel is a trial lawyer and outside general counsel, representing clients in complex matters in entertainment, media, intellectual property, sports and employment. Mel has extensive experience practicing with big law firms but now practices in his own small firm so he has the ability to provide personalized service to his clients.
Mel is extensively involved in his community. Mel is active with numerous non-profit organizations, serving as general counsel to the Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles and the UCLA Alumni Association...
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Ruth Ryan-Cruz
San Diego, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer
(619) 528-2202
3111 Camino Del Rio North, Suite 400
San Diego, CA 92108
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Communications and Trademarks
California Western School of Law
Ruth Ryan-Cruz is an attorney in San Diego, California with Ryan-Cruz Law, APC. Attorney Ruth Ryan-Cruz practices in the areas of business and corporate law, intellectual property, estate planning, wills, trusts, copyrights, trademarks and more. Contact San Diego Attorney Ruth Ryan-Cruz for a consultation. Ruth is a fluent Spanish-speaking attorney providing counseling and transactional services in Spanish in the areas listed above. Ruth earned her Juris Doctor Degree from California Western School of Law and received a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in High Tech Management from California State...
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Ali Shalchi
Irvine, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
University of Iowa College of Law
Ali focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and transactions, with a focus on patent litigation and drafting. He is registered to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He has litigated large patent cases involving cutting edge technologies including semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and medical devices. Mr. Shalchi obtained his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from UCSD in 1998, where he completed several research projects on computer modeling of cardiac mechanics. He also received an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering, with a focus on MEMS (MicroElectroMechanicalSystems) & Semiconductor Fabrication, from UCLA in 2002. While at UCLA, he...
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Elizabeth Yang
Beverly Hills, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
University of La Verne College of Law
Elizabeth Yang has been practicing law since 2007 and specializes in Intellectual Property Law, including Patent, Copyright and Trademark Prosecution and Litigation; Business Law, including corporate entity formation, contract drafting, contract disputes, litigation; and Family Law, including divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, and asset division. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Elizabeth was admitted to the United States Patent & Trademark office in 2007. At the age of 19, she earned her Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in two and a half years. In 2011, Elizabeth founded Yang & Wang, P.C., a boutique...
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Jessica Bromall Sparkman
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 20 years of experience
(310) 712-6838
1900 Avenue of the Stars
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
IP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
I am a successful Intellectual Property, Patent, Litigation and Appellate Law attorney. Based in California, my experience includes trademark matters in more than 150 countries.
I provide aggressive advocacy for a full range of intellectual property and patent law issues. I am committed to achieving the best possible results with efficient and effective representation.
I received my B.A. from Yale University, where I played Varsity Lacrosse. My J.D. is from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
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Ivan Parron
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 18 years of experience
(310) 598-3550
1999 Avenue of the Stars Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Free ConsultationIP, Antitrust, Business and Entertainment & Sports
Florida International University College of Law
Mr. Parron has over 20+ years of executive and legal experience in the television, music and motion picture industries. He is the past-chair of the Florida Bar Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law section, a board member of the Miami-Dade County Film & Entertainment Advisory Board and an elected Grammy Governor of the Recording Academy. Prior to opening his law firm and his tenure at Universal Music Group as in-house attorney, Mr. Parron served as CEO & founder of Ritmoteca.com, Inc., the worlds first legal source for downloadable Latin music via the Internet and mobile networks. Mr. Parron is often...
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Michael William Malter
Santa Clara, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 44 years of experience
IP, Bankruptcy, Business and Real Estate
Santa Clara University School of Law
Michael Malter is an accomplished California attorney, advocating for clients in Bankruptcy, Business, Intellectual Property, Landlord Tenant, Real Estate and Tax Law matters. With over 40 years of experience, he has been recognized as a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the California State Bar. Michael is committed to providing comprehensive and personalized representation focused on attaining the best possible outcomes.
Michael, a native of Long Island, New York, has been a resident of California since 1977. He currently lives in Saratoga with his two daughters and labradoodles. Outside of work, Michael can be found hiking and traveling. Additionally, he deems...
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Stephanie V. Trice
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney
(310) 552-5023
10100 Santa Monica Boulevard
8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Free ConsultationIP and Trademarks
University of West Los Angeles School of Law
With over 20 years of experience in the legal field, attorney Stephanie V. Trice brings a passion for client advocacy and interest in the nuances of intellectual property law. She enjoys working with artists, business owners, and inventors at the earliest stage, often when there is nothing to see but a bright idea, and provides guidance to achieve their objectives and develop their intellectual property portfolio. On the litigation side, she is a critical and analytical thinker who tenaciously fights for her client’s intellectual property rights and defends those accused of infringement.
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Sebastian Gibson
Corona del Mar, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 46 years of experience
3541 Lilac Ave.
Corona del Mar, CA 92625
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Personal Injury and Trademarks
Univ of San Diego School of Law and Cardiff University
With over 45 years of experience, Attorney Sebastian Gibson serves Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Newport Beach, Malibu, Temecula, Orange County and all of California specializing in car and big rig truck accident personal injury, business, film & TV, publishing, modeling, entertainment law, HOA disputes, branding, trademarks, copyrights, & corporate law, and has extensive expertise in drafting, and reviewing a wide variety of contracts from personal management and talent agency agreements, modeling contracts, literary agency and book publishing agreements, business contracts, shipping contracts, biomedical, health care, med spas, mobile IV hydration and mobile medical clinics, intellectual property, winery trademarks, civil law,...
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Timothy Lappen
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 49 years of experience
(310) 201-3536
1900 Avenue of the Stars
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
IP, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
University of California - Los Angeles
With four decades of legal experience, I provide counsel for Business, Real Estate, Estate Planning, Tax, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, and Hospitality Law matters. Based in Southern California, I represent clients as outside general counsel throughout the world. I am dedicated to delivering legal expertise and experience focused on the best possible outcomes.
Highly accomplished and respected by peers, I have been honored as the 2018 Southern California Lawyer of the Year for Closely-Held Companies & Family Businesses Law, and the 2019 Southern California Lawyer of the Year for Trusts and Estates.
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Dana Melissa Newman
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Lawyer with 30 years of experience
(310) 730-4384
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
IP and Business
University of San Francisco School of Law
I am a business attorney with substantial in-house legal experience at companies involved in entertainment and communications technologies. I focus on technology transactions, contracts, trademark and copyright law, and publishing law. I have negotiated and drafted complex, sophisticated contracts involving technology, licensing, joint ventures, and asset purchases. I've also managed an extensive intellectual property portfolio (trademarks and copyrights), and have handled the prosecution of domestic and international trademarks, software licensing, domain name enforcement, and copyright registrations.
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Rod S. Berman
Los Angeles, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 42 years of experience
(310) 201-3517
1900 Avenue of the Stars
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
IP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
My practice is focused on Patent, Trademark, Copyright, and Intellectual Property Law. Based in California, I represent national and international clients from a wide range of industries.
With nearly 40 years of legal experience, you can expect skilled, knowledgeable and zealous representation. My accomplishments have resulted in numerous honors, including recognition as being among the Best Lawyers in America, Top Intellectual Property Attorneys in California, and Top 100 Attorneys in Los Angeles.
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James Gulseth
Livermore, CA Intellectual Property Attorney with 50 years of experience
IP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
UC Hastings COL
James H. (Jim) Gulseth was born and attended high school in Devils Lake, North Dakota and graduated with an A.B. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Jim earned his JD degree at the University of California Hastings School of Law in San Francisco and is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the Federal District Court, Northern District of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He is a member of the Corporations, Business Transactions, Securities and Tax and Intellectual Property Sections of the State Bar of California. Jim’s reported cases include...