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MICHAEL L. LOVITZ
 Founding Partner mlovitz@lovitziplaw.com Los Angeles direct +1 310 860 6136 fax +1 310 861 6566 Michael L. Lovitz focuses his practice on copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, copyright and trademark litigation, portfolio management, licensing and transactional matters for a broad range of domestic and international clients including apparel, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial, toys, jewelry, media/publishing, videogame producers, software, internet and technology companies, as well as comic book creators and publishers. His experience includes trademark portfolio management; foreign and domestic trademark availability clearance and prosecution, including ex-parte appeals to the TTAB and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; copyright prosecution; copyright and trademark enforcement; trademark, copyright, patent and know-how licensing agreement negotiation, drafting and counseling; negotiating trademark and copyright acquisitions and transfers; negotiating, drafting and counseling for technology, software, internet and new media clients, including terms/conditions of use agreements, privacy policies, and publishing, media rights and option agreements; trademark opposition and cancellation practice; litigation of trademark, unfair competition and copyright matters; domain name disputes; and client counseling, including establishing trademark use guidelines, policing of IP rights, IP audits and due diligence reviews. A frequent instructor and lecturer on trademark, copyright, Internet, computer and entertainment law issues at various seminars, conventions and conferences, Mr. Lovitz has served as faculty for programming from the American Bar Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the DuPont Intellectual Property CLE Seminar. He also serves on the IP Conference Planning Committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Mr. Lovitz leads several sold-out programs on intellectual property law for companies, emerging and established artists at the annual San Diego Comic-Con International. This year marks the tenth consecutive year Lovitz has been invited to present his "Comic Book Law School," which he developed specifically for the San Diego event. Comic-Con is the largest gathering of its kind in the world and Lovitz’ lecture series has received national press. ADMISSIONS
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