Kevin M. Bovard

Experience

Trademark/Trade Dress

• Serves as lead trademark counsel and manages the global trademark portfolios of multiple Fortune 500 and 1000 companies, as well as smaller entities.
• Provides comprehensive trademark services, including clearance and trademark prosecution services, as well as enforcement strategies, to consumer products companies, medical device manufacturers, software companies, apparel retailers and other brand owners.
• Lead counsel in cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the USPTO.  
• Lead counsel defending a light emitting diode (LED) retailer against trademark infringement and trade secret misappropriation claims.
• Represented a playground equipment manufacturer in asserting trade dress infringement claims against a competitor.
• Represented a clothing and home goods retailer in asserting trademark infringement and related Lanham Act claims.
• Obtained transfer of cyber-squatted web domains through a UDRP proceeding. 

Copyright

• Representing, as lead counsel, an author's heir in a suit for declaratory judgment of joint authorship and for an accounting.
• Represented a telephone directory publisher in defending claims of copyright infringement based on the plaintiff's collection of stock photographs.
• Represented a software company in asserting copyright and related breach of contract claims against a former customer.
• Represented an enterprise applications software company in a case against its direct competitor, alleging violations of the U.S. Copyright Act, Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, California Unfair Competition Law, and related business torts.
• Represented a visual artist in asserting claims under the Visual Artists Rights Act, the U.S. Copyright Act and state law.

Patent

• Defending a large technology company in a patent infringement case involving contact-voltage detection along streets. District court litigation was stayed following successful institution of inter partes review at the USPTO, after which all asserted claims were found to be invalid. 
• Defended an LED manufacturer against claims of design patent infringement. Virtually all damages were eliminated on summary judgment.