Extensive experience regarding trademarks, copyrights, licensing matters, intellectual property, software agreements, advertising and labeling (consumer products such as dietary supplements), and administrative matters (e.g., CPSC, FTC, FDA).
Extensive experience representing closely held corporations in business matters, venture capital funding, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Successfully appealed a trade dress protection case for a market newcomer accused of copying a large competitor’s unpatented grease pump. The Sixth Circuit reversed the decision and saved the client $2 million in damages.
From 1981 to 1993, served as in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb (The Drackett Co.) and Johnson’s Wax (The Drackett Co.) in intellectual property matters (trademarks, licensing), acquisitions, divestitures, administrative law, and truth in advertising.
Representative Experience
Extensive experience regarding trademarks, copyrights, licensing matters, intellectual property, software agreements, advertising and labeling (consumer products such as dietary supplements), and administrative matters (e.g., CPSC, FTC, FDA).
Extensive experience representing closely held corporations in business matters, venture capital funding, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Successfully appealed a trade dress protection case for a market newcomer accused of copying a large competitor’s unpatented grease pump. The Sixth Circuit reversed the decision and saved the client $2 million in damages.
From 1981 to 1993, served as in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb (The Drackett Co.) and Johnson’s Wax (The Drackett Co.) in intellectual property matters (trademarks, licensing), acquisitions, divestitures, administrative law, and truth in advertising.
Extensive experience regarding trademarks, copyrights, licensing matters, intellectual property, software agreements, advertising and labeling (consumer products such as dietary supplements), and administrative matters (e.g., CPSC, FTC, FDA).
Extensive experience representing closely held corporations in business matters, venture capital funding, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Successfully appealed a trade dress protection case for a market newcomer accused of copying a large competitor’s unpatented grease pump. The Sixth Circuit reversed the decision and saved the client $2 million in damages.
From 1981 to 1993, served as in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb (The Drackett Co.) and Johnson’s Wax (The Drackett Co.) in intellectual property matters (trademarks, licensing), acquisitions, divestitures, administrative law, and truth in advertising.
Representative Experience
Extensive experience regarding trademarks, copyrights, licensing matters, intellectual property, software agreements, advertising and labeling (consumer products such as dietary supplements), and administrative matters (e.g., CPSC, FTC, FDA).
Extensive experience representing closely held corporations in business matters, venture capital funding, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Successfully appealed a trade dress protection case for a market newcomer accused of copying a large competitor’s unpatented grease pump. The Sixth Circuit reversed the decision and saved the client $2 million in damages.
From 1981 to 1993, served as in-house counsel with Bristol-Myers Squibb (The Drackett Co.) and Johnson’s Wax (The Drackett Co.) in intellectual property matters (trademarks, licensing), acquisitions, divestitures, administrative law, and truth in advertising.