IP Litigation: To Protect and Enforce

Delivering Global Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement

It could be the technology on which you built your company or an innovation at the heart of a new product launch. It could be a promising drug development in an emerging area of medicine or an established brand name expanding to new international markets. In short, it’s an innovation or a product line of critical importance to you, your business and to sustaining your share of the marketplace. You put energy, equity and a good amount of your ego into creating and unveiling your innovation. Now, you need an experienced intellectual property professional to protect and enforce your IP rights in the US and around the world.

Companies and entrepreneurs rely on Julie A. Katz for their global IP protection and enforcement needs. With more than 20 years of global and domestic IP portfolio management and litigation experience, Julie focuses exclusively on identifying, defining and maximizing her clients’ intellectual property rights.

Julie works with clients to develop aggressive enforcement procedures and programs that accomplish defined goals. These programs monitor IP portfolios and are used to confirm that each client’s IP is used properly and effectively. When opportunities arise to expand her clients’ IP rights, Julie negotiates and drafts licenses and other transactional agreements relating to IP assets.

On those occasions where an even more aggressive stance must be taken to enforce her clients’ IP rights, Julie brings her litigation experience to work for her clients. She has successfully litigated disputes covering a broad spectrum of products and industries, including:

• Hard-disk drive motors
• Audio equipment
• Automobile equipment
• Surgical devices

Representative Litigation Experience

• Elite Group v Bella Cucina Artful Food: trademark infringement, breach of contract/license (settlement negotiation and post settlement enforcement)
• Roe, Sheppard v BabyTracks: trademark infringement (settlement negotiation)
• UCF America v UCF Trading: trademark infringement re vehicle parts between family members (mediation and settlement)
• Propex Operating Company v Western Excelsior: patent infringement and trade dress re erosion control material (from filing complaint through fact and expert discovery, motion practice through settlement)
• Centurion v Surgical Design: design patents on surgical devices (discovery, motion practice, reissue patent procedures, settlement)
• Otsuka v Apotex: patent infringement re Aripiprazole anti-psychotic (through fact and expert discovery)
• Elan v Anchen: patent infringement re Fluvoxamine antidepressant (motion practice on venue, jurisdiction, transfer issues)
• Eurand v Anchen: patent infringement re Cyclobenzaprine muscle relaxant (motion practice on venue, jurisdiction, transfer issues)
• Novartis v Anchen: patent infringement re Darifenacin urinary incontinence (motion practice on venue, jurisdiction, transfer issues)
• Williams & Hussey v Woodstock International, Grizzly Industrial: trademark infringement re color mark (motion practice)

Prior to founding Katz Group, Julie A. Katz was a partner at the intellectual property law firms, Symbus Law Group, LLC and Welsh & Katz, Ltd., and the general practice law firm, Husch Blackwell, LLP.