Allison Roach focuses her practice on trademark, copyright, and consumer product safety issues. She has experience in federal trademark, trade dress, and copyright infringement litigation, international and domestic trademark portfolio management and enforcement work, and counseling in Consumer Product Safety compliance. She also regularly practices before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Professional & Community Activities
Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Executive Articles Editor (2007-2008)
University of Georgia School of Law Class of 2008, President (2006-2008)
University of Georgia School of Law 2008 Legacy Class Gift Campaign, Co-Chairman (2007-2008)
Industries
Entertainment, Media & Sports; Telecommunications
Experience
Cabell v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Served as lead counsel in representing Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., actor/writer Adam Sandler and writer Judd Apatow, et al., in a copyright, trademark and unfair competition suit in federal court in New York. The firm successfully obtained summary judgment of copyright and trademark rights on behalf of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., rejecting claims of film and advertising infringements and lighting the way for the movie You Don't Mess With The Zohan. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment to our client.
Cabell v. Sony Pictures Entm't, Inc. 714 F. Supp. 2d 452 (S.D.N.Y. 2010), aff'd, No. 10-2690-CV, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 13057 (2d Cir. June 24, 2011).
Trademark services for Fortune 500 multinational corporation, Represents a California-based Fortune 500 multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products in trademark enforcement work, including lead counsel representation of client in multiple proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Esbin & Alter LLP v. Zappier et al., Retained to defend independent software developer on a pro bono basis against former law firm employer that alleged copyright infringement, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and trade secret theft. Negotiated a favorable settlement for the software developer that resulted in a dismissal of all claims, as well as permitting the software developer to sell the accused software product.
Esbin & Alter, LLP v. Zappier et al., No. 1:08-cv-00313 (S.D.N.Y. filed Jan. 14, 2008).
*Experience gained by attorney prior to joining Kilpatrick Townsend
Publications
01 March 2010, Moral Rights and Wrongs: Conflicts in the Digital World
Source: Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, Articles
01 September 2009, Digital-Age Claims for Old-World Rights
Source: Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Articles
01 March 2007, Oh Bother: Milne, Steinbeck, And An Emerging Circuit Split Over The Alienability of Copyright Termination Rights
Source: Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Articles
News
29 March 2012, Kilpatrick Townsend's Joe Beck and Allie Roach Present at the "Avenue of the Arts: Connecting Creativity, Economics and the Law Symposium 2012", News Releases
22 March 2012, Joe Beck and Allison Scott Roach to discuss copyright/digital media at Wake Forest, News Releases