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Practices
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Education
Columbia Law School (JD 1964; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Columbia Law Review)
Princeton University (BA 1960)
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Bar & Court Admissions
New York
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals - Second, Third, Federal Circuits
United States District Courts - Southern, Eastern Districts of New York
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William M. Borchard
Partner
Download V-Card Email: wmb@cll.com- 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY 10036-6799 Ph: 212.790.9290Fax: 212.575.0671
Bill's practice consists of counseling clients and handling domestic and international trademark and copyright matters including clearance, registration, proper use, licensing, contested administrative proceedings and litigation. He is experienced in structuring the intellectual property aspects of complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and securitizations; split trademark ownership transactions; international transfer pricing structures; and intellectual property holding company transactions. He also deals with Internet and domain name issues.
Prior Experience
- Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler (1964 - 83)
Articles & Speeches
- A Trademark is Not a Copyright or a Patent (CLL, 2012)
- Client Alert - Are the New Top-level Domain Names for You? - Updated (CLL, 2011)
- 'Fashion 2.0 Social Media, Virtual Worlds. . . and the Real World, too' moderator at CLL Fashion Program (2010)
- Client Alert - Are the Top-level Domain Names for You? (2010)
- 'Finding Capital for the Apparel and Fashion Industry in Today's Environment' J.H. Cohn's Program (2009)
- 'Someone's Stealing My Food' moderator at CLL's Food & Hospitality Seminar (2008)
- 'Protecting Fashion Designs' presentation at CLL's Fashion '07 Seminar Trademarks & the Arts (Second Edition, Columbia Law School, 1999)
Honors & Awards
- Named in New York "Super Lawyers" in Intellectual Property Law (2006 to date)
- Named in The Best Lawyers in America in Intellectual Property Law (2004 to date)
- Named in The International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers (Law Business Research Ltd. 2001 to date)
- Named in Guide to the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners (Euromoney Legal Media Group 2000 to date)
- Named in Who's Who in America - Law (Marquis Who's Who 1979 to date)
- Named in The Legal 500 United States for U.S. National Copyright (John Pritchard 2007)
Affiliations
- Columbia University School of Law - Guest Lecturer, Trademark Licensing (1987-)
- The American Law Institute, Advisory Committee, Restatement (Third) of the Law of Unfair Competition (1986-92)
- International Trademark Association -Legal Counsel (1988-91), Editor-in-Chief, The Trademark Reporter (1978-79)
- American Bar Association -Chairman of Copyright Division (1981-82) and Trademark Division (1984-85)