Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is recommended in New York for its practices in patent and trademark litigation. The firm also counsels on all manner of IP transactions, including negotiating and drafting licensing agreements, and M&A. Their IP litigation group handles patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, IP-antitrust and other areas across a broad spectrum of industries.

Key practitioners at the firm include Anthony Dreyer, Bruce Goldner, Douglas Nemec and Stuart Levi. Goldner and Levi are co-heads of the IP and technology transactions practice in New York.

Recently, Skadden represented Juno, a company that develops navigation software, in defense of a patent infringement lawsuit brought by RideApp in the Southern District of New York concerning ride sharing technology.

In June 2020, Skadden secured an order dismissing all claims pending in a patent infringement suit in the US District Court for the District of Delaware against nine entities related to Combustion Emissions Reduction Technologies.

Additional patent clients include Array BioPharma, Caterpillar, JP Morgan Chase, Fortinet, Stryker and Norwest Equity Partners.

Over the past year, Skadden advised the NFL on more than four dozen separate IP enforcement matters, including issues relating to the unauthorized use of NFL and NFL Club logos on merchandise, as well as websites, social media and other forms of digital distribution.

Additional trademark clients include Peet’s Coffee and Pinduoduo.