Online Counterfeiting and Infringements: Pursuing Trademark and Design Patent Infringers

Mr. Hogan is Co-Chair of the firm’s Fashion, Retail and Consumer Products Group. His practice focuses on IP litigation and counseling, including trademark, copyright, patent, false advertising, right of publicity, licensing, and trade secret matters. Mr. Hogan has represented various corporations and individuals in a broad range of industries, including financial services, sports, fashion, cosmetics, entertainment, transportation, pharmaceuticals, and online services. A significant portion of Mr. Hogan's practice involves computer, internet, and new media-related issues. He has represented and counseled a wide variety of companies on these issues, whether they are internet-focused companies or traditional brick–and–mortar companies.

Mr. Ruben is a Partner at McAndrews, where he focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and prosecution. He has significant experience in the protection of design rights, including drafting and prosecuting design patent applications, design-arounds, counseling clients on design patent portfolios and conducting infringement/invalidity opinion work and due diligence investigations. Mr. Ruben also has experience with pre-suit investigation, motion practice, and discovery for numerous cases dealing with a wide range of complex legal issues, including inter partes reviews. His experience is diverse, including IP involving a wide range of mechanical and electrical technologies.

For more than 25 years Ms. Talley has specialized in strategic trademark counseling and portfolio enhancement, developing anti-counterfeiting solutions and strategies, and resolving trademark disputes. She is particularly sought after for her expertise in enforcing brand rights against infringers and counterfeiters seeking to profit from her clients’ well-known brands. In addition to managing her robust practice, Ms. Talley has worked as an adjunct professor teaching trademark law at The George Washington University Law School. She also frequently speaks and writes on trademark issues to a variety of public and private audiences and has been active for many years in leading IP organizations, including the INTA and the Intellectual Property Owner’s Association (IPO). She is the Vice Chair of IPO’s Anti-Counterfeiting Committee and Co-Chair of AIPLA’s Cannabis Tech Subcommittee and serves on INTA’s Brands and Innovation Committee.