Turner Dhillon represents clients in diverse industries including entertainment, fashion, new media, and music in a variety of intellectual property transactional and litigation matters. We pride ourselves on providing comprehensive transactional services as well as innovative and rigorous litigation and enforcement actions for those in the traditional and new media, technology, e-commerce, and videogame fields. We provide expert counsel on the acquisition, exploitation, enforcement, and defense of intellectual property rights. Turner Dhillon attorneys have broad industry experience and specialized academic backgrounds, which we use to execute and protect your intellectual property rights.

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Turner Dhillon is well-versed in the following areas of Intellectual Property: IP Litigation, Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service & Terms of Use Agreements, and Trademark & Copyright Registration & Protection. 

 

IP LITIGATION

In an increasingly litigious and predatory intellectual property environment, Turner Dhillon attorneys understand clients’ IP needs and provide practical, results-oriented advice that is tailored to meet their business goals.  We provide expert copyright and trademark representation to companies involved in high stakes IP disputes. Turner Dhillon attorneys are experienced in handling precedent-setting matters that apply copyright and trademark law in new ways, and to new technology, including digital media, privacy issues, and material distributed over the Internet and other digital channels.  We bring decades of litigation experience and innovative legal strategies to every case.

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LICENSING AGREEMENTS
Attorneys at Turner Dhillon have extensive experience successfully representing domestic and international clients in licensing music, media, software, databases, and videogames.  We are skilled at negotiating licensing agreements with major media organizations, online videogame companies, financial service providers, and sports leagues.  We work with clients to maximize the licensing value of their prized IP including songs, videogames, books, films, illustrations, and computer software, while ensuring that clients’ intellectual property rights are protected.
 

TERMS OF SERVICE & TERMS OF USE AGREEMENTS
Turner Dhillon attorneys are skilled in the drafting of appropriate terms of service and terms of use agreements, particularly for those clients in the new media, and videogame industries. Properly drafted agreements are critical to ensuring compliance with all applicable domestic and international laws. Additionally, our attorneys can counsel you on potential issues with privacy, payment, data management, user generated content and age verification issues so that your tailored agreement best suits your business requirements. Attorneys at Turner Dhillon have over two decades combined experience dealing with these types of foundational documents for businesses.
 

TRADEMARK & COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION AND PROTECTION
Turner Dhillon handles copyright and trademark registration for its clients, as an integral part of its robust intellectual property practice.  Attorneys at Turner Dhillon have represented clients in diverse industries regarding the full spectrum of copyright and trademark matters from routine research and registration to cease-and-desist demands and litigation.  Turner Dhillon uses a novel approach by forming a comprehensive intellectual property protection plan, suited to each clients’ unique needs. This can include registration of marks, website URL registration and acquisition, reclaiming or shutting down infringing websites and online content, and modification of use agreements for infringing logos and marks. Should your IP matter require litigation, Turner Dhillon has extensive experience representing clients in multi-party, complex copyright and trademark lawsuits.  Additionally, we have extensive experience in public domain, fair use, right of publicity and the law of caricatures and parodies.  Turner Dhillon attorneys are passionate about litigating novel e-commerce issues and has effectively handled one of the earliest cases enforcing trademark rights over internet domain name registration in California.