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Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association District Court Eastern District of WisconsinĬalifornia SuperLawyers for Intellectual Property

District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania Comic-Con is the largest gathering of its kind in the world and Michael's lecture series has received national press. Michael leads several sold-out programs each year on intellectual property law for companies, emerging and established artists at the annual San Diego Comic-Con International. This year marked the fifteenth consecutive year he has been invited to present his 'Comic Book Law School,' developed specifically for the San Diego event. He also serves on the IP Conference Planning Committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Michael's experience includes trademark portfolio management foreign and domestic trademark availability clearance and prosecution, including ex-parte appeals to the TTAB and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit copyright prosecution copyright and trademark enforcement trademark, copyright, patent and know-how licensing agreement negotiation, drafting and counseling negotiating trademark and copyright acquisitions and transfers negotiating, drafting and counseling for technology, software, internet and new media clients, including terms/conditions of use agreements, privacy policies, and publishing, media rights and option agreements trademark opposition and cancellation practice litigation of trademark, unfair competition and copyright matters domain name disputes and client counseling, including establishing trademark use guidelines, policing of IP rights, IP audits and due diligence reviews.Ī frequent instructor and lecturer on trademark, copyright, Internet, computer and entertainment law issues at various seminars, conventions and conferences, Michael has served as faculty for programming from the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the DuPont Intellectual Property CLE Seminar. Michael Lovitz focuses his practice on copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, copyright and trademark litigation, portfolio management, licensing and transactional matters for a broad range of domestic and international clients including apparel, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial, toys, jewelry, media/publishing, video game producers, software, internet and technology companies, as well as comic book creators and publishers.

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