3D Printing: Implications for Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets and Copyrights

Ms. Ferrill focuses her practice on all aspects of design patents, including prosecution, counseling, and litigation. She also has extensive experience in utility patent litigation in the areas of software- and hardware-related technologies. She counsels clients who hold design patents as well as those accused of infringement. She has experience with consumer and industrial products, graphical user interfaces and icons. She has prosecuted families of design patents before the USPTO, directed prosecution in foreign countries, and argued appeals before the PTAB. 

Mr. Trachtenberg has over 20 years of experience handling intellectual property, domain name, internet, and other technology-related issues. He represents clients of all sizes in matters involving promotion and protection of their IP, both online and in the brick-and-mortar world. In this capacity, Mr. Trachtenberg advises clients and helps them implement comprehensive strategies to protect their IP rights, identifies threats to their online brand presence, including through domain name and social media abuse, and aggressively enforces these rights on their behalf. He has recovered or shut down thousands of problematic domain names, social media accounts, email addresses, and content using platform-specific takedown processes, dispute resolution processes like the UDRP, and civil litigation remedies including the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Mr. Trachtenberg has actively participated in ICANN for over 20 years and regularly advises some of the largest registries, registrars, e-commerce, social media, search engine, and other online platform providers.