Van Nuys Intellectual Property Lawyers

An experienced attorney specializing in criminal law, intellectual property law, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and litigation. Admitted in China (2010) and California (2019). Strong science and technology background. HIGHLIGHTS: • Extensive litigation experience in U.S. courts and Chinese courts. • Excellent at negotiating and communicating with lawyers, government agencies, and clients from different countries. • Former government lawyer in a major Chinese business regulatory agency. • Science background and IP law practice experience.

Law firm founder Angie Small Booth has over 25 years experience as an Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer representing businesses and individuals in all aspects of trademark, copyright, Internet, E-Commerce, right of publicity, and related issues including clearance, registration, litigation, mediation, licensing, and transactional matters. Representative clients and former employers includes Paramount Pictures, Fox Family Worldwide, Saban Entertainment, World Poker Tour, Allied E-Sports, Branpresto, as well as many individual artists, smaller businesses and start ups and law firms.

Angie’s experience includes working as an Examining Attorney for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), teaching Trademark Law at Pepperdine...

Michael Oberbeck is a senior counsel focusing on business litigation issues. At BKCG, Mr. Oberbeck has extensively litigated employment disputes, commercial and real property disputes, international manufacturing and distribution litigation, and trademark and franchise issues. Mr. Oberbeck has litigated cases throughout California in both state and federal courts, and he has obtained many client-favorable results at trial, arbitration, and mediation. Mr. Oberbeck also has authored and successfully argued several matters before the California Courts of Appeals for BKCG clients. Born in Evansville, Indiana, Mr. Oberbeck graduated, cum laude, from Purdue University in 1993 with a double major in Psychology...

Saul Acherman is an attorney licensed in California. He focuses on intellectual property matters, including patent and trademark prosecution and litigation. Saul is a registered patent attorney licensed to practice in patent matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (registration number 72,898). He is also involved with other business and civil litigation matters including business formation, contracts, and employment matters, and is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of California as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California. After receiving a BA in Philosophy from the...

Mr. Van Etten has more than 20 years of experience representing and counseling employers in an array of industries, including financial services, automotive manufacturing, oil and gas, healthcare, and food and drug industries. He serves as counsel for employers in labor and employment investigations and in litigation and arbitration matters before state and federal courts and agencies. His practice areas include wage and hour class actions and single-plaintiff claims involving alleged wrongful termination, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, discrimination charges coming before the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), unfair labor practice claims coming before the National Labor Relations Board,...

Having previously practiced at an American Law 100 firm as well as in-house counsel for a multi-national corporation, Mr. Hakala brings both legal expertise and business sense to the business transactions that clients seek to accomplish and the complex legal problems that they seek to litigate and resolve. Mr. Hakala has not only litigated various complex business and employment matters on behalf of Fortune 100 clients, he also provides general business, technology, and media law representation to various companies, including start-up businesses and those in the renewable energies sector.  Mr. Hakala is an experienced business litigator who has also...

Prior to opening his own practice, Raz Messerian was an associate attorney at one of the nation's largest intellectual property law firms. As a registered Patent Attorney he has prosecuted numerous patents across a wide range of technologies before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Mr. Messerian has worked with clients of various sizes: from Fortune 500 companies to solo inventors. Raz Messerian received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Mr. Messerian's strong technical background and proclivity for the sciences serves as an invaluable tool in aiding him understand the nature and inner-workings...

Nicholas Myers’ practice focuses on intellectual property, business litigation, and corporate formation and governance. He has represented clients in trademark, copyright, breach of contract, unfair competition, Internet, gaming, and sports and entertainment matters, and has also advised clients on corporate structuring and asset protection issues.

Nicholas has litigated cases in state and federal courts and has represented clients in private arbitration. He routinely prosecutes and defends clients in trademark, copyright and trade secret cases. He has also successfully represented multiple clients in trademark disputes before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Nicholas is admitted to practice...

NFP Music Geek IP Lawyer

As a seasoned trial attorney and skilled negotiator, I have won nearly every case I have tried and arbitrated, losing only one jury trial which was completely reversed on appeal. My experience includes 13 jury trials, 16 court trials, and 14 binding arbitrations. I represent clients in both federal and state courts across a diverse range of matters, including business litigation, legal malpractice, real estate, trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement, construction disputes, and commercial unlawful detainer. My notable victories include securing an $18.5 million binding arbitration award in a breach of contract case, a $2.25 million jury verdict in a premises...

With over 45 years of experience, Attorney Sebastian Gibson serves Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Newport Beach, Malibu, Temecula, Orange County and all of California specializing in car and big rig truck accident personal injury, business, film & TV, publishing, modeling, entertainment law, HOA disputes, branding, trademarks, copyrights, & corporate law, and has extensive expertise in drafting, and reviewing a wide variety of contracts from personal management and talent agency agreements, modeling contracts, literary agency and book publishing agreements, business contracts, health care, med spas, mobile IV hydration and mobile medical clinics, intellectual property, winery trademarks, civil law, celebrity law, publicity...

Tina has dissolved Gehres Law Group to focus on building a NFP organization, YesHope.org. She is no longer taking clients. Thank you for your patronage.

Experienced attorney with a demonstrated knowledge of commercial real estate, business and corporate law. Skilled in contract drafting and review, legal research and negotiations. Strong customer service focus and desire to help all individuals.

Education:

-Bachelor's of Arts in Business Management with emphasis in Legal Studies from California State University, Fullerton

-Juris Doctorat with emphasis in Corporate and Business Law from University of San Diego, School of Law

I am an accomplished Patent, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Business law attorney. Based in California, with cases throughout the United States, my practice includes a wide array of industries.

With over 20 years of experience, a M.B.A. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, I offer comprehensive representation for complex technology and patent law matters. I aggressively advocate for the best possible outcomes. I have also received numerous honors, including recognition as Lawyer of the Year for Litigation-Patent Law by Best Lawyers.

Outside of work, I enjoy reading, skiing, and traveling. Additionally, my wife, daughter and I are enthusiastic sports fans.

Mr. Kendrick holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco and has been a California licensed attorney since 1998. His practice focuses on intellectual property matters including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition. He works in both the United States and Europe as an intellectual property attorney and he has several years of international legal experience. He has several years of experience providing patentability and invalidity research in a wide variety of disciplines including aerospace, mechanical, industrial, energy, medical, materials, food technology and the automotive arts among others.

Mr. Kendrick also holds a Bachelor’s degree in...

Ali focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and transactions, with a focus on patent litigation and drafting. He is registered to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He has litigated large patent cases involving cutting edge technologies including semiconductors, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and medical devices. Mr. Shalchi obtained his B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from UCSD in 1998, where he completed several research projects on computer modeling of cardiac mechanics. He also received an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering, with a focus on MEMS (MicroElectroMechanicalSystems) & Semiconductor Fabrication, from UCLA in 2002. While at UCLA, he...

Joe Mellema's practice focuses on litigation in federal and state courts, including the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, and business and commercial disputes. He has handled patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair business practices, antitrust, and business and commercial lawsuits in all phases of litigation and arbitration.

Joe is well-versed in patent and trademark enforcement, preparation and prosecution, as well as trademark enforcement and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent & Trademark Office. He has considerable experience litigating patents in a variety of technical fields, including optical devices and components, computer...

My law practice encompasses a broad variety of litigation matters, ranging from complex commercial disputes to white collar criminal defense. I have represented clients in federal and state courts in cases involving copyright and trademark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, securities violations, bank fraud, tax fraud, toxic torts, unfair competition, and civil and criminal racketeering. I also have extensive experience in commercial mediation and arbitration.

Most recently, my work has involved class action litigation involving wage and hour claims; a partnership dispute over a multi-million dollar capital call; and a variety of intellectual property and business disputes in Los Angeles...