• Help companies develop and protect stellar brands
• Advise companies, including national retailer and Fortune 100 insurance company, on legal issues involving social networking and the Internet
• Lawyer for clients in many industries including social networking, food, medical device, software, battery, carbon tracking, airline, publishing, clothing, sporting goods, power, and telecom
• Attor
ney for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies
Internet-Related Work
• Counsel app developers on designing systems that comply with numerous internet-related laws
• Draft website and app terms of use and other online policies
• Monitor and take down trademark infringements from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
• Help clients minimize risks regarding user-generated content
• Help clients defensively protect their brands on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Wikipedia
• Counsel clients on complying with FTC guidelines on endorsements by employees and bloggers
• Extensive experience with Digital Millennium Copyright Act, CAN-SPAM Act, Communications Decency Act, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and other internet laws
• Draft terms of use and privacy policies for company pages
• Draft internal social networking policies for employees
Trademark-Related Work
• Help companies clear company and product names and logos before they are launched
• Help register, enforce, and license brands around the world
• Advise on keyword advertising disputes
• Assisting client with new gTLD application in anticipation of January 2012 application period
• Help clients protect their marks during launch of numerous new gTLDs
• Launched Dorsey’s domain name practice in 1998
• Helped draft successful .coop TLD application to ICANN
• Handled numerous domain name disputes
• Registered hundreds of gTLDs and ccTLDs
• Handle U.S.
