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Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP actively litigates in all areas that form the backbone of this nation’s protection of intellectual property: patent, trademark, copyright and trade secrets. Being well-versed in the legal structures of each of these areas provides us with a unique advantage. Although the legal structures differ somewhat, the underlying principals are very similar. Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP routinely taps strategies used in one case under one structure and applies it to another.
Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP’s experience is both extensive and significant. Members of Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP were involved in overturning the largest trademark judgment in history. Members of the firm have litigated patent cases involving technologies from cryptography to Internet streaming and health care. The firm has also litigated and won copyright cases in the Internet, music, television, motion picture, publishing and technology industries. The firm recently obtained a well publicized win in an action turning on defenses under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Communications Decency Act, Perfect 10 v. CCBill, 481 F.3d 751 (9th Cir. 2007).
Members of the firm routinely lecture on cutting edge intellectual property issues, particularly the intersection of existing laws with the ever changing advances in technology.