9401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1250
Beverly Hills, California 90212
310-859-0100
Nature of Practice
Personal
service is offered in selected legal areas. This office is
suitable
for matters where a large firm is not required, yet where problem
solving
can best be handled by one having a developed knowledge in specific
areas
of intellectual property and media. The practice incorporates a
seasoned
understanding of both domestic and international copyright and
trademark
matters that covers many industries. A network of lawyer contacts
cultivated over years crosses national boundaries to help the corporate
client and the business lawyer liaise with international colleagues
abroad.
A commitment to the legal profession and its institutions is an
integral
part of the practice.
Clients Represented
Representation has included businesses and individuals in the entertainment, art, publishing, merchandising, Internet, e-commerce and new media, advertising, computer software, information services, financial, clothing, consumer products, consumer electronics, food, restaurant, medical products, eyewear, jewelry, sporting goods, furniture, leather goods and other industries, primarily limited to the specific practice areas identified below:Trademark Law
- Preliminary injunction and seizure proceedings
- Anti-counterfeit enforcement/defense
- Litigation and trials of trademark infringement and unfair competition matters.
- Trademark/service mark selection and development
- Trademark searches and interpretation
- Federal registration
- Foreign registration
- Customs recordation
- Opposition and cancellation proceedings
- Counseling on appropriate trademark usage in advertising and commercials and on packaging
- Internet domain name disputes
- Assignments and recordation
Licensing of trademarks and service marks
Entertainment/Media Law
- Counseling and representing producers, writers, actors and directors in the motion picture and television industries
- Negotiating and interpreting contracts
- Production and distribution agreements
- Option agreements
- Life story rights agreements
- Rights clearance
- Title searches and interpretation
- Privacy, publicity and defamation issues
- Reviewing material for E&O requirements
- Union and guild matters
- Litigation and trials of entertainment cases in federal and state courts and arbitration tribunals
Copyright Law
- Registration of copyright
- Assignments and recordation
- Copyright searches
- Interpretation of domestic and foreign rights
- Termination of transfers
- Licensing and contract negotiation
- Preliminary injunction and seizure proceedings
- Anti-piracy enforcement/defense
- Litigation and trials of infringement and license disputes
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• Internet domain name disputes
• Website development agreements
• Linking and sponsorship agreements
• Content and trademark licensing
Merchandising and Licensing
Merchandising licenses, protection of rights in merchandising properties, litigation of merchandising rights.International Affiliations
Relations established with foreign lawyers in Canada, Western Europe, Africa, Latin America and Pacific Rim countries.Paul D. Supnik is a member of the State Bar of California and not of any other state or country. The material set forth herein is not for the purpose of soliciting any engagements where to do so would be to offend or violate the professional standards of any other state, country or bar.
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- Attorney at Law
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Paul D. Supnik