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BENJAMIN ASHUROV, J.D.
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Education
Law school: UC Hastings Undergrad: UC Santa Barbara Lead counsel in numerous high stakes IP disputes litigated in U.S. federal courts and USPTO administrative courts.
Resolved numerous IP disputes involving trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and domain names. Registered hundreds of trademarks and copyrights across numerous jurisdictions worldwide. Negotiated and closed hundreds of domestic and international licensing transactions involving leading global brands. |
Practice Areas
Litigation Intellectual property licensing and transfers Intellectual property rights procurement and portfolio management Benjamin represents U.S. and international clients in complex intellectual property litigation matters in U.S. federal courts, California State courts, administrative courts, and private arbitrations and mediations. An experienced strategist, Benjamin provides counsel relating to the development, procurement, protection, and monetization of global intellectual property assets.
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NEIL A. SMITH, J.D.
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Practice Areas
Intellectual property Litigation Alternative Dispute Resolution A former judge with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Neil brings a wealth of expertise across a wide spectrum of intellectual property matters. He is a frequent speaker and author on intellectual property and ADR subjects, including a quarterly column in the California State Bar IP section magazine, New Matter, on Ninth Circuit cases, and "Complex Patent Suits: The Use of Special Masters for Claim Construction" 2, Landslide 1, Oct. 2009 (American Bar Association), and Chapter "New Strategies for Infringement Litigation" Recent Trends in Patent Infringement Lawsuits (Aspotore/Thomson, 2010). Neil has been an officer in many legal organizations, including President of the San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and a founder and President of the Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court. He served on several ADR panels and is trained in arbitration, mediation, and early neutral evaluation.
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KYMBERLEIGH KORPUS, J.D.
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Practice Areas
Intellectual property Litigation Kymberleigh is a fierce advocate who has successfully litigated a variety of intellectual property and business disputes, including trademark and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, false advertising, unfair competition, breach of contract, fiduciary duty, and/or warranty, fraudulent inducement, economic interference, defamation, real property, construction, manufacturing, foreclosure, and lien priority disputes.
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