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  • William M. Borchard

  • Practices

    Trademark

    Copyright

    Intellectual Property

  • Education

    Columbia Law School (JD 1964; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Columbia Law Review)

    Princeton University (BA 1960)

  • 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

  • William M. Borchard

    Counsel

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    • 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036-6799 Ph: 212.790.9290 Fax: 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)

      '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? (2009)

      '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 (2005-10)

      Named in The Best Lawyers in America in Intellectual Property Law (2004-10)

      Named in The International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers (Law Business Research Ltd.  2001-10)

      Named in Guide to the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners (Euromoney Legal Media Group 2000-10)

      Named in Who's Who in America  - Law (Marquis Who's Who 1979-10)

      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)

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