Here you will find case studies that offer an expanded look at how we apply our experience in specific situations on behalf of clients. We have longstanding relationships with many clients. The following are some examples of how we serve their interests.
Defending a Mark: Trademark Dispute
Can one trademark encompass another mark in its entirety and not be considered infringing? That was the issue facing our intellectual property lawyers in an opposition brought by a large Germany-based company against a client’s pending trademark appl...
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Domain Name Tracking: Internet Infringement
On the Internet, more than half the battle is finding the individual behind the infringement. Internet infringement ranges from creating confusingly similar or misspelled domain names to actual use of a registered trademark on a website or banner ad,...
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Global Investigation: Counterfeit Products
Infringing products can come from anywhere, but stopping one distribution outlet often means the infringer just pops up elsewhere. Squire Sanders’ intellectual property lawyers demonstrated persistence and savvy in tracking an infringer across severa...
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Trademark Cancellation: Jurisdictional Knowledge
Squire Sanders intellectual property lawyers faced an uphill battle when a client sought cancellation of a competitor’s confusingly similar registration. Issues included the prior rejection of an opposition to the application that matured into the re...
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Protecting Wetlands Permits
When The Landon Companies (Agripartners), owner of a large tract of undeveloped land between Naples and Fort Myers, needed expertise in Endangered Species Act (ESA) litigation, they turned to Squire Sanders for help. In 2003, two environmental groups...
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A Winning Argument on FLSA Claims
Digital Dish, a leading television satellite dish service company, and two of its representatives faced claims of overtime and recordkeeping violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) involving more than 200 of the company's technicians. Th...
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Enforcing Employee Noncompete Agreements
When the former vice president of a flooring company's property management division abruptly left the company to work for a direct competitor despite having executed a two-year noncompete agreement, the company turned to our labor and employment prac...
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Brazil Media Regulation
The Brazilian government is in the process of implementing new media regulations, as well as a review of the mass communication law. Our client, a prominent player in the Internet sector, is concerned about draft regulations that would apply local co...
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Dominican Republic IP Rights Enforcement
We acted for a major producer of alcoholic beverages whose trademarks were being violated by a local producer. As well as ensuring a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) compliant-piece of legislation, we obtained the first e...
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Japanese Postal Privatization
The Japanese government decided to privatize its postal service. This was a very controversial measure and resulted in Prime Minister Koizumi having to call a general election on the issue, when the Upper House of the Diet initially rejected the refo...
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