California

Firm overview

The most effective IP solutions come from putting great minds together—yours and ours. At Brooks Kushman, we know that exceptional service is only possible by forging strong relationships with our clients. Those relationships are the fuel for tenacious and innovative solutions to your most complex problems. We’re ready to listen, learn, and become a valuable extension of your team.

Since the firm’s founding in 1983, Brooks Kushman has built a national reputation as a premier intellectual property law firm. We have accomplished this by attracting the best talent, and by working closely with clients to understand how your business really operates and what really drives your company or brand.

At Brooks Kushman, we generate value for your business with cutting-edge intellectual property representation, AI-driven technology, and engagements staffed with diverse, cross-disciplinary teams that represent clients of all sizes.

Network Memberships:

• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Intellectual Property Office (IPO)
• ChIPs
• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• American Chemical Society
• Women Lawyers Association of Michigan
• Michigan Patent Law Association
• South Asian Bar Association North America
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• PTAB Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• Michigan IP Inn of Court
• Corporate Counsel Women of Color
• American Intellectual Property Owners Association (AIPLA)

Firm overview

Haley Guiliano started as the patent practice spin-off from Ropes & Gray LLP. The Haley Guiliano team has extensive experience with representing clients of all sizes and across a multitude of industries around the globe in connection with intellectual property matters. All of our attorneys and patent agents have technical and scientific backgrounds, many of whom have graduate degrees. We are used to counseling and representing clients on high stakes complex matters – relying on both our legal analysis expertise and technological know-how.

We tailor our relationship for every one of our clients, recognizing that a cookie-cutter approach to IP representations is not adequate. We make it a point to understand our client’s business, its needs, and its goals. This underpins the work that we perform in the course of our representation.

Haley Guiliano is selective in hiring talented candidates with exceptional legal and technical/scientific backgrounds. We invest in our legal team and support staff. This includes providing each person with opportunities to work on a wide scope of projects in addition to specializing in a respective practice area. Haley Guiliano has developed an environment that fosters professional development and collegiality.

As a client, this means your matters will be handled by a team of Haley Guiliano professionals with a broad range of experience, who are able to learn about your business and your needs. This institutional knowledge will be a continuous mainstay during the course of our representation.

Firm overview

Sideman & Bancroft is one of the premier brand protection law firms in the United States. Our team includes highly experienced lawyers and former federal prosecutors, and global security and brand protection experts with extensive backgrounds leading anti-counterfeiting, anti-piracy and customs interdiction and investigation programs in both private companies and law enforcement agencies. We provide customized and scalable brand protection solutions designed to enable clients to achieve their goals for trademark protection and worldwide branding in all stages of a brand’s life cycle.

The value of trademarks, service marks and trade dress is greater than ever before. We routinely prosecute and defend infringement, dilution, unfair competition and false advertising claims involving both registered and unregistered trademarks and service marks, in addition to pursuing a wide variety of trade dress claims. Protection of a global brand means understanding risks and concerns regarding enforcement issues in the U.S. as well as in foreign jurisdictions. We obtain ex parte writs of seizure for counterfeit parts and labels in the U.S. and other countries. In collaboration with local counsel, we pursue and defend trademark and service mark claims in jurisdictions around the world.

The firm achieves tremendous results for clients by combining the traditional intellectual property and brand protection practices of counseling, prosecution and enforcement with specialty components such as:

• Criminal intellectual property enforcement
• Criminal and civil gray market investigations and enforcement
• Global investigation management
• Online anti-counterfeit monitoring
• Global customs advice and program development

In particular, the team assists clients in implementing brand protection strategies to halt the importation of counterfeit goods and prevent the sale of counterfeit products. As part of this effort, we help companies target and investigate counterfeit traffickers, and then assemble and analyze evidence to support successful criminal investigations and prosecutions as well as civil litigation resulting in asset freezes and other remedies.

Since 2001, our team has actively worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, Secret Service and other state and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. in its representation of victim companies, resulting in dozens of criminal convictions, jail sentences and restitution orders. Relying on our team’s international law enforcement experience, we also actively coordinate investigations and law enforcement referrals in jurisdictions all over the world.

Network Memberships:

• INTA, IACC, AGMA, PCPC, ChIPs, SFIPLA, NAMWOLF:
• The firm is a certified women-owned law firm

Firm overview

From our offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, we work with clients ranging from established, global Fortune 100 companies to enterprising startups.

Our team of more than 2,200 lawyers and legal professionals provides comprehensive corporate, transactional, litigation, and regulatory services in major industries, including energy, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, retail and ecommerce, sports, technology, and transportation. We focus on both immediate and long-term goals with our clients, helping them address and anticipate challenges across vast and rapidly changing landscapes.

We approach every representation with an equal commitment to first understanding, and then efficiently and effectively advancing, the interests of our clients and arriving at the best results. If a client has a question, we’ll immediately find the person in our global network with the answer. If there’s a shift in the legal landscape, we’re on top of it, and our clients will be too.

Founded in 1873, we stand on the shoulders of more than 150 years of achievement, but we never rest on our reputation.