Copyright enforcement and litigation issues have exploded in recent years, fueled by two parallel circumstances: technologies have evolved rapidly in their ability to share information, and intellectual property owners have become more sophisticated in their efforts to monetize those technologies’ value in their portfolios. We work alongside our clients to protect these valuable assets across a range of counseling activities: we prepare demand letters and pursue takedowns; we sue for damages and/or injunctive relief; and we take cases through trial or arbitration, oftentimes on landmark, precedential copyright issues.

From the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to the European Union Directive on Copyright, we maintain a truly global knowledge of copyright legislation and its impact on our clients’ businesses. We understand how each country’s laws and precedents can protect a copyright owner’s rights in an age where infringement can be increasingly difficult to detect and defeat, as well as understanding and supporting market players exploiting and distributing copyright-protected intellectual property in a progressively more regulated era.

We are deeply involved in the complex issues surrounding computer software, including issues relating to the scope of copyright protection and business arrangements for research and development, consulting, and licensing. We have counseled companies on developing products that are compatible with products of other vendors. When these issues proceed to trial, our stellar IP litigation team has the legal and technological savvy to understand these complexities and, equally as important, to explain them to lay judges and jury.