Alex co-chairs Hinckley Allen’s Sports & Entertainment Group. In that role, he has advised professional sports teams, minor league sports teams, current and former athletes, ownership groups, musicians, authors, entertainment personalities, news organizations, and a variety of other individuals and entities in the sports and entertainment industry with respect to intellectual property matters, including trademark and copyright protection and registration, trademark and copyright portfolio management, IP enforcement efforts, naming rights agreements, licensing agreements, fair use issues, and right of publicity matters.
Further, he also advises clients of all sizes and across all industries, ranging from global startups, emerging to public companies, and investors at all stages of the company life cycle. Alex concentrates his practice on the selection, protection, and enforcement of copyrights and trademarks, along with technology transactions and licensing matters, especially in the software space. He is well-versed in technology and licensing; cloud-based agreements; collaboration, strategic alliance and joint development agreements; and due diligence and other intellectual property issues in joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and venture capital and private equity transactions.
Alex’s extensive technology transactions and copyright and trademark experience includes:
- Reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and provide guidance related to various intellectual property-related contracts and license agreements, including software license agreements, mobile application development and license agreements, SaaS agreements, trademark licenses, non-disclosure agreements, and work for hire agreements;
- The successful prosecution of thousands of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office;
- Advising clients on the filing, maintenance, and renewal of foreign trademark applications and registrations, including utilization of the national, EUTM, and Madrid Protocol filing schemes; and
- Advising clients on copyright and right of publicity issues surrounding the development of websites, marketing and promotional materials, photographs and videos, and various other copyrightable works.
- Representing clients as plaintiffs and defendants in opposition and cancellation proceedings in front of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board;
- Obtaining copyright registrations from the U.S. Copyright Office for software, books, music, videos, and other works;
- Obtaining domain names through Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceedings;
- Advising a variety of clients on mitigating and avoiding claims of copyright and trademark infringement;
- Successfully enforcing and defending clients’ copyrights and trademarks through cease and desist letters and subsequent negotiations;
- Conducting intellectual property-related due diligence in a variety of corporate transactions.
Alex enjoys maintaining his trademark blog, TantalizingTrademarks.com, where he examines interesting trademark applications recently filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.