Practice Areas & Industries: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Intellectual Property

Few law firms can match the industry experience, legal skill, technical breadth and business knowledge of Manatt’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.  We offer to our global client base a complete range of services that includes all facets of intellectual property and Internet litigation, licensing, counseling, registration and government advocacy.  Our lawyers offer to clients a comprehensive service package that includes:

• Expertise in traditional IP areas, such as patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret protection
• In-depth knowledge that reflects one of the world’s leading entertainment law practices, including rights of publicity and idea misappropriation as well as focused copyright and trademark counsel
• Applied skill in such diverse industry applications as healthcare and financial services
• Advanced technology insight that encompasses life sciences, electrical engineering, hardware systems, software, database law, and Internet issues from domain name protection to e-commerce
• Government advocacy and policy expertise, in Washington, DC, and key state capitals

Comprehensive Focus
We are litigators, dealmakers and lobbyists.  We are skilled practitioners before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office and the United States International Trade Commission.  Our lawyers understand the value of intellectual property as a business asset, and are skilled at protecting and exploiting it.   We develop business-oriented solutions to complex problems, and the same attorney will often structure a transaction, litigate a dispute and pursue regulatory relief for an IP client.

Professional Leadership
Our attorneys combine the achievements you expect at a leading firm with extraordinary professional recognition.  We teach law school classes, write articles and lecture to bar associations and write treatises in the field.  We have in-depth industry experience in roles as different as recording company executive and semiconductor device engineer.   We have worked in innovative Internet and e-commerce companies, leading financial institutions and federal regulatory agencies.  Leaders of our practice have been named among California’s Top 25 intellectual property attorneys by The Daily Journal, and appear in Who’s Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America. 

Business Skill
We are unsurpassed at crafting business transactions that enable our clients to realize maximum value from their IP portfolios.  Manatt attorneys form joint ventures and strategic affiliations, and play key roles in structuring mergers and acquisitions.  Our IP and web site audit services help our clients to inventory their intellectual property assets and develop long-term plans to exploit them.  We construct intellectual property deals for licensors and licensees, and have worked in all aspects of ventures that produce and internationally distribute feature films, music and digital rights.  We understand the business thinking behind e-commerce and software marketing.

Aggressive Protection
As a leading national litigation firm, Manatt’s IP litigation practice encompasses traditional and novel claims, including a number of significant cases in copyright, trademark and Internet law.  Our attorneys combine aggressive protection and effective leveraging strategies to help clients:

• Select, clear, register, enforce and defend trademarks
• Register and enforce copyrights
• Obtain and enforce patents
• Develop, maintain, license and protect trade secrets, business processes, databases and rights of publicity
• License, sell and collateralize music, film, software and written text
• Exploit the most novel types of digital rights
• Navigate the regulatory maze that encompasses innovative technology, from medical devices to telecommunications, with the help of our government advocacy group in Washington, DC

No matter what your legal or business need is, Manatt intellectual property lawyers can draw on our firm’s comprehensive global resources to help you with any of your critical issues.

Services Available

Clients:
Barbra Streisand, Black Eyed Peas, Burt Bacharach, CafePress.com, Inc., Cher , Def Leppard, Estate of Bob Marley, Estate of Bruce Lee/Concord Moon, Fujitsu America, Inc., Gerawan Farming , Granada Television, Gwen Stefani and her apparel companies L.A.M.B. and Harajuku Lovers, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intuit, Inc., Jamba Juice Company, Life Alert Emergency Systems, Los Angeles Clippers, Mattel, Inc., Metallica, Muse, R. Kelly, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Ticketmaster Corp., Toyota, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., West Coast Motorcycles fka Harley-Davidson of Glendale, Will Smith, Will Adams