Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton offers a full suite of IP services in California, this year earning highly recommended status in copyright, patent and trademark prosecution and trademark litigation. The firm is also recommended for its patent contentious practice.

For patents, key practitioners in the state are Paul Haughey, Patrick Jewik, Steven Moore, Babak Sani and William Shaffer.

The firm’s trademark and copyright group is supported by Jennifer Arkowitz, Anthony Malutta and Joseph Petersen in its California offices. Arkowitz specializes in global trademark portfolio management for major brands. Malutta serves as co-head of the trademark and copyright practice group. Petersen is one of the firm’s foremost copyright experts, counseling companies in entertainment, retail and other sectors.

In 2021, the firm was awarded Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year in the West by Managing IP, and was also shortlisted in the Patent Prosecution and Trademark Contentious categories for the Western region.

The firm is currently defending GoPro in a patent infringement lawsuit in the District of Delaware filed by 360Heros regarding mechanical rigs designed to hold cameras in place to film 360-degree footage.

A team led by Steven Moore recently obtained a jury verdict for GREE in the Eastern District of Texas of willful infringement of five patents by Supercell, and damages of at least $8.5 million.

Additional patent clients include for Caltech, Nano Precision Medical and Fortafy Games.

Jack Daniel’s Properties retained a Kilpatrick team after a panel of the 9th Circuit recently held that VIP Products’ “Bad Spaniels Silly Squeaker,” a dog chew toy similar in shape to the Jack Daniel’s whisky bottle, should be afforded First Amendment protection as an “expressive work.”

The firm also manages global trademark enforcement work for Levi Strauss and Stetson.