Nathan advises a broad range of clients on trademark, patent, and intellectual property licensing issues. His practice includes all phases of intellectual property protection, including securing, maintaining, litigating and licensing patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. As an adjunct professor teaching Copyright and Trademark and Unfair Competition courses at the Cumberland School of Law, Nathan is well versed in both the basics and the developing issues of law important to a robust representation.
Nathan advises a broad range of clients on trademark, patent, and intellectual property licensing issues. His practice includes all phases of intellectual property protection, including securing, maintaining, litigating and licensing patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. As an adjunct professor teaching Copyright and Trademark and Unfair Competition courses at the Cumberland School of Law, Nathan is well versed in both the basics and the developing issues of law important to a robust representation.
Trademarks of his clients include such well known names as SPALDING®, RUSSELL ATHLETIC®, CHESTER FRIED®, and MENTAL FLOSS®. Nathan assists his clients with the selection and registration of potential trademarks, as well as enforcement and licensing of existing properties. His daily contact with clients and trademark administrators over the years, providing advice on all aspects of international portfolios including thousands of marks, give him the background to approach every issue with a broad strategic view. At the same time, many of Nathan’s clients individually own fewer than thirty trademarks, and each finds that Nathan’s daily experience with large portfolios allows him to advise them quickly and efficiently on virtually any issue that may arise. To further his client’s interests generally, Nathan is a frequent lecturer and is active in the International Trademark Association.
On the transactional side, Nathan’s traditional software and hosted license negotiation experience include multi-million dollar licensing arrangements and transactions involving multinational/transnational parties and circumstances. Nathan leverages his experience with complex copyright issues together with his technology licensing experience to forcefully advocate and achieve his client’s licensing goals.
As a registered member of the patent bar with a background in General Chemistry, Nathan’s prosecution experience includes patents regarding industrial equipment, alternative fuels, conductivity and materials properties, chemical processes, metallurgy, and furniture applications. In addition to U.S. patent prosecution, he is experienced in matters involving the International Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Nathan’s litigation practice includes defending clients from coast to coast, in various jurisdictions including several recent and pending cases in the plaintiff-favored Eastern District of Texas, among others. As a consequence, he is familiar with procedure and best practices from an array of jurisdictions, and is able to leverage that knowledge to his clients’ advantage, whether in a single-defendant case, or in the largest of multi-defendant proceedings. Recent cases include the following:
Parallel Networks, LLC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. et al (E.D. Texas 2010) - Defending patent claims involving website and Internet technology.
Stambler v. Intuit Inc. et al (E.D. Texas 2010) - Defending financial services company in a patent suit over encryption and Internet commerce.
Pop-A-Shot, Inc. v. Russell Coproration (Kansas 2010) - Trademark case defense involving the term POP-A-SHOT.
Ed Tobergte Associates d/b/a Gear 2000 v. Russell Brands, LLC (D. Kansas 2009) - Defended athletics products company Russell Brands in patent litigation involving football shoulder pads.
Cushion Technologies, LLC v. Brooks Sports, Inc. (E.D. Texas 2008) - Defended specialty running shoe manufacturer Brooks Sports, Inc. in patent litigation involving shoe construction.