Your art is your world. Your business is your baby. And intellectual property is its lifeblood. So protect it.
You need a lawyer who is willing to take time to understand you and all that goes into your creative processes. Someone who will explain to you how the laws relating to trademark, copyright, patent and other intellectual property rights affect you and your business. That lawyer should have a great deal of experience. Additionally, that experience should be broad based, covering both securing federal protection for your intellectual property and enforcing those rights in the courts of law.
Music lover, visual artist and licensed patent attorney Albert F. Davis of A.F. DAVIS LAW® is such a lawyer. Mr. Davis is the founding and managing principal of A.F. DAVIS LAW®. The firm's practice focuses on "all things intellectual property." A.F. DAVIS LAW® provides a broad range of intellectual property services to clients, including drafting and prosecuting trademark and patent applications, negotiating technology and intellectual property agreements, litigating intellectual property rights, providing opinions on infringement and counseling clients on how to prevent infringing the rights of others. We also assist clients in identifying the best types of intellectual property protection to seek based on clients' business objectives and budget considerations. If you want to protect your products and services well against your competitors, give us a call.
Ask the industry experts. Ernest Lipscomb is the patent law guru who literally wrote the book on the subject of intellectual property protection--Lipscomb's Walker On Patents. What does he have to say about Mr. Davis?
"Al is perhaps the youngest attorney in the country to have managed a piece of patent litigation as significant as S&S Sports Power v. Huss. His work was outstanding and showed unusual maturity for a fourth year associate.... [His] knowledge of the intricacies of patent law, and litigation in general, is extraordinary . . . ."
After receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Illinois in Civil Engineering, Mr. Davis practiced as a project engineer for Amoco Oil Company (now BP) for a number of years before attending law school. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin Law School where he served as a managing editor of the Law Review.
Mr. Davis began his practice in Minneapolis with the national intellectual property law firm of Merchant & Gould. While with M&G, Mr. Davis' practice focused on securing patent and trademark rights for clients in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and litigating patent cases in federal court. He moved to M&G's Los Angeles office in the mid-1990's to enforce the copyrights of a sculptor against one of the largest movie studios in Hollywood. In the late 1990's, when the M&G firm closed its Los Angeles office, Mr. Davis joined the national general practice firm of Arter & Hadden. There Mr. Davis chaired the litigation team fighting a multimillion dollar patent infringement lawsuit on behalf of one of his international clients. He successfully orchestrated the amicable settlement of that lawsuit only days before what was scheduled to be a very long and expensive trial. Mr. Davis then further honed his litigation skills with the business litigation law firm of Quinn Emanuel before launching A. F. DAVIS LAW®.
Mr. Davis is licensed to practice law in the state and federal courts of California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Texas, as well as before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mr. Davis served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation for several years. He is a BESLA (Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association) member and lecturer and has served on the Entertainment Executive Committee of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.
While A. F. DAVIS LAW® focuses exclusively in the areas of trademark, copyright, patent and entertainment industry contracts, the firm does not limit its practice to any one industry. For example, Mr. Davis recently litigated a case on behalf of one of his songwriter clients to enforce her song copyrights against one of the country's largest retailers alleged to have infringed those rights in several long running ubiquitous national television and radio advertisements. He has served as general counsel to an independent inventor supervising patent litigation against some of the world’s largest cell phone manufacturers, securing favorable settlements in many instances. He has represented a group of successful entrepreneur inventors in protecting their rights when their former multinational corporate employer sued a competitor for patent infringement relating to their patented technology. He has also served for several years as trademark counsel to renown comedian/entrepreneur J. Anthony Brown and acclaimed author/publisher Teri Woods. Firm clients include artists, producers, songwriters, individual entrepreneurs and inventors, and small and large companies alike.
If your have questions about protecting your intellectual property, please feel free to contact us.
