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Intellectual Property: Litigation

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Intellectual Property: Litigation - District of Columbia

5
Band 5

What the Team is Known For

DLA Piper LLP offers notable trademark law specialists who are routinely called upon to advise on global brand management and international portfolio protection. The team is adept at handling complex trade mark litigations. It acts for prominent clients in the sports and media sectors, in addition to the consumer goods, fashion, food and beverage and electronics industries, among others. The team is also experienced in assisting emerging companies and startups with the IP aspects of early-stage corporate development.

Work Highlights

  • DLA Piper continues to advise Dannon on domestic and international trade mark strategy. Work includes trademark selection and filing strategy, clearance and registrability analysis and prosecution of trade marks.

Strengths

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The firm shows exceptional case analysis, quickly grasping the important issues. Their commercial awareness and ability to grasp our industry's issues is excellent.

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DLA’s IP attorneys have subject matter expertise in various legal and technological areas, which enables them to efficiently produce high-quality work product at every stage of litigation.

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DLA is extremely knowledgeable, with well-rounded expertise and outstanding customer service skills. They very quickly understood our core business and were responsive to all of our needs.

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DLA Piper provides considered, calculated and practical advice. They are clear and concise, with an extensive global reach.

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Notable Practitioners

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Thomas E. Zutic
2
Thomas E. Zutic
2
Band 2

Thomas Zutic heads the trademark and copyright group in DC and offers broad experience covering an array of industry sectors. He frequently advises on matters relating to licensing, transactional IP and general portfolio management.

Tom is astute in his advice and a pleasure to work with.

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Helena D Kiepura
4
Helena D Kiepura
4
Band 4

Helena Kiepura litigates on behalf of the world's leading tech and consumer goods companies. With experience in complex international IP disputes, Helena's district court practice is supplemented by her ITC expertise.

Helena is a hard-working, smart and committed attorney.

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Rachel Fertig
U
Up and Coming

Rachel Fertig's growing reputation sees her advise on enforcement litigation for household-name brands. Rachel is equally adept at counselling clients on intellectual property licensing, with particular expertise in AI-related content licensing matters.

Rachel is extremely detail-oriented and professional. She has amazing knowledge of IP-related law and a tireless work ethic.

Rachel dove in and studied our copyrights, licences and other policies to quickly size up where we were well-covered and where we had opportunities to tighten up our licensing model.

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Intellectual Property: Litigation
Helena D Kiepura
4
Helena D Kiepura
4
Band 4
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Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
Thomas E. Zutic
2
Thomas E. Zutic
2
Band 2
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Rachel Fertig
U
Up and Coming
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