McHale | Slavin has extensive experience in complex litigation involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, and trade secrets in federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States, and at the US Patent & Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). In approaching any litigation, our attorneys remain mindful of the client’s overall business objectives in litigation as well as managing its costs.
McHale | Slavin’s litigation attorneys have extensive experience in all areas of patent litigation, copyright litigation, and trademark litigation – including the related areas of domain name disputes, unfair competition claims, and trade secret claims.
In recent years, there has been an increased number of lawsuits filed by various IP assertion entities and/or law firms, often referred to as “patent trolls,” “copyright trolls,” and “trademark trolls.” As a result of McHale | Slavin’s expertise with the nuances of IP legal issues, our attorneys have developed an expertise dealing with many of these assertion entities and their attorneys. Some of the more commonly known of these entities include:
- Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc.
- Aloft Media LLC (including its agent George Street Partners)
- Prepared Food Photos, Inc.
- CopyCat Legal, PLLC
- SRipLAW
- Sream, Inc.
- Higbee & Associates
- Sanders Law Group
- Doniger / Burroughs
If you’ve been threatened with litigation, or already sued by any of these entities, contact us for advice as to how best to proceed.
