Business leaders responsible for marketing and advertising have their own set of legal challenges—embracing the opportunities of social media and mobile marketing, navigating third-party content, building and enforcing intellectual property rights, and ensuring compliance with the latest advertising law developments, to name a few. This seminar will address these and other issues, highlighting recent legal developments and focusing on practical steps that marketing and communications professionals, in-house lawyers, and legal professionals can take to strengthen the position of their marketing, communications, content, and brands.
Among the topics to be discussed:
Sammy Dalrymple
sdalrymple@wsgr.comA recognized leader in his field, John specializes in in trademark, copyright, and advertising law.
Aaron heads the trademarks, copyrights, and advertising practice focusing on the areas of trademark, advertising, unfair competition, copyright, internet, retail, and consumer law.
Colleen represents clients in IP, commercial, privacy, and antitrust litigation.
Alyssa Worsham focuses on global strategic advice, litigation strategy, and transactional guidance for clients’ trademarks, branding, and advertising in marketplaces where commercial and geographic lines are increasingly blurring. She helps clients assess the risk in selecting new business and product names, and works with them to build, exploit, and protect these names creatively and strategically. Alyssa advises on trademark disputes, domain name disputes, contests and sweepstakes, advertising review, right of publicity, social media issues, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) compliance (i.e., the rules surrounding marketing texts and calls), FTC compliance and investigations, copyright, IP diligence, and associated commercial contracts. She works with software companies, biotech start-ups, cosmetics companies, fashion companies, life sciences and digital health companies, agro-tech companies, consumer products, non-profits, and game developers, among others. She advises founders, CEOs, GCs, IP specialists, and chief marketing officers on the critical issues surrounding brand creation, protection, and strategy.