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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. Mr. Grace is a contributing author to the Loeb & Loeb LLP Advanced Media and Technology Law blog.

Publications/Speeches

Speaker, Intellectual Property Issues in Digital Media Arts, Digital Media Arts Summit & Expo 2011, Long Beach, California (November 3, 2011)
Panelist, Trademark and Clearance: Protecting and Using Trademarks in Film, TV and New Media, 7th Annual Conference of Film, Television and New Media Law, Hollywood, California (January 27-28, 2011)
Panelist, Taking License: Protecting Trademarks in a Wild West World, USC Gould School of Law 2010 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, Los Angeles, California (October 23, 2010)
Co-chair, INTA 2009 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington (May 16-20, 2009)
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)
Panelist, Merchandising and Co-Promotion and the Movies, 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association, San Diego, California (May 18, 2005)

Blogs

“The Other Red Meat” Is Likely to Dilute “The Other White Meat”

Media Mentions

Volunteer Spotlight: David Grace By Jan Ferd Mietzel and Fernanda Torres Volpon, INTA Bulletin
Elle Macpherson Lights Up INTA Annual Meeting Managing Intellectual Property
Green Themes in Emerald City INTA Daily News

Affiliations

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

Distinctions

Named in "Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business," in California Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (2011 edition)
Recommended in World Trademark Review 1000 (2011), WTR is part of The IP Media Group
Named in "Southern California Super Lawyers" in Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, a Thomson Reuters business (2006 and 2009-2012)
Named in Who's Who Legal USA - Trademarks 2006-2007 and Who's Who Legal: California - Trademarks 2009, published by Law Business Research Limited
Named in Guide to World's Leading Trademark Law Practitioners, published by Euromoney's Legal Media Group (2009)
Highest "AV Preeminent (5 out of 5)" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

INTA 2012 Annual Meeting

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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