10100 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 2200
Los Angeles, California
90067

310.282.2108

310.919.3901

David W. Grace
Partner and Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Protection Practice Group

David Grace’s primary area of practice is the protection, acquisition, and licensing of trademarks, copyrights, publicity rights and entertainment rights. He litigates trademark, unfair competition, copyright, right of publicity, Internet domain name, entertainment, advertising and patent disputes. He represents clients in negotiating significant trademark, copyright, endorsement and entertainment agreements and counsels clients with respect to Internet and advertising issues.

Mr. Grace implements domestic and international intellectual property protection strategies by counseling clients with respect to intellectual property issues, auditing and managing intellectual property portfolios, supervising the prosecution of domestic and foreign trademark applications and resolving domestic and international intellectual property disputes.

He practices regularly before the US federal courts and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeals Board. He represents clients in Internet domain name dispute resolution proceedings.

Publications/Speeches

Speaker, ACCA-SoCal Program, Unauthorized Use of Personal Identity: Rights of Publicity and Unfair Competition Claims, Irvine, California (November 19, 2008)
Speaker, Ninth Annual Washington in the West Conference, Los Angeles, California (January 25, 2006)
Moderator, Product Design and Packaging – Protection & Litigation, Chicago, Illinois (June 14, 2005)
Moderator, 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association, San Diego, California (May 14-18, 2005)

Affiliations

International Trademark Association (INTA), Member; Co-Chair of 2009 Annual Meeting Team and Chair of Government Outreach Subcommittee of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
INTA Panel of Neutrals, Member
Los Angeles Intellectual Property American Inn of Court (LAIPAIC), Master of the Bench
Los Angeles Copyright Society, Member
Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, Chair of Trademark Committee
Federal Bar Association, Member
After-School All-Stars, Marketing Advisory Board, Member

Distinctions

Named "Southern California Super Lawyers" in Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports by Law & Politics in Los Angeles magazine (2006)
Named in Who's Who Legal USA - Trademarks 2006-2007, published by Law Business Research Limited
Named in Who's Who Legal: California - Trademarks 2009, published by Law Business Research Limited
Highest "AV" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1981

George Mason University, B.S., 1978, With Highest Distinction

California, 1982
Florida, 1982

U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Law Clerk, Honorable Daniel T.K. Hurley, Florida Court of Appeal

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