Trademark Litigation in Light of B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc.

Ira Sacks practices in the area of litigation, including a broad range of trademark and branding matters, as well as a variety of general commercial matters. His practice also includes antitrust, copyright, and patent litigation and counseling. Ira brings to his diverse client base in-depth experience as a litigator with extensive big case trial experience. He has served as counsel of record in more than 90 reported decisions, including two successful arguments before the United States Supreme Court, and he has been first-chair trial counsel in over 20 matters litigated to judgment.

Alan Cooper has practiced many years exclusively in the area of trademark enforcement with particular emphasis on trademark infringement and dilution cases as well as contested proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and counterfeit matters working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He taught trademark law as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School for twelve years, and has been a faculty member at numerous CLE programs directed to trademark law, and has written a number of articles on topics in the trademark field.  He is one the co-authors of the treatise “A Legal Strategist’s Guide to Practice Before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board” published by the American Bar Association and for many years has been a member of the Advisory Board of the BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal. 

Charles (Chico) L. Gholz is a partner in the Litigation practice group. He is particularly skilled at handling patent interferences under 35 USC § 135 before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and court review of decisions by the PTAB in interferences. He handles both appeals to the Federal Circuit under 35 USC § 141 and civil actions in district courts under 35 USC § 146. Mr. Gholz represents a wide variety of domestic and foreign clients across a range of technologies including biotech, chemical, electronics, computers and lasers. He regularly appears before the PTAB, the Federal Circuit, and various district courts. He also counsels on patent validity and patentability, and he has appeared as an expert witness on many patent issues.

Jonathan Hudis, a partner in the firm’s Trademark and Copyright practice group, counsels clients in trademark, copyright, trade secrets and unfair competition matters, as well as related matters pertaining to the Internet. A skilled trademark and copyright attorney, Mr. Hudis prosecutes and litigates a full range of these matters before the federal courts, the Register of Copyrights, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He has several years of practical intellectual property litigation experience in contested court matters and administrative proceedings.