IP, High-Tech & Media / Entertainment Attorneys

Our attorneys have brought and defended claims of patent infringement in scores of cases involving electronics and semiconductors, mechanical devices, telecommunications, optics, software, chemistry, life sciences, and more. We specialize in making your technology and your legal positions understandable to courts, juries, and arbitrators so we can secure a win for you.

We have defended and pursued a wide array of trade secret cases. The secrets at issue have ranged from customer lists to database optimizations to biotechnology to know-how for building a 100-kiloton-a-year chemical plant to semiconductors.

We represent music and media companies, songwriters, and recording artists in litigation and transactional matters, protecting their valuable IP and supporting their creative and business goals.

BLG has hands-on experience at the cutting edge of AI litigation, including legal issues around scraping of data for AI training and fair use. Our work has required us to understand and to advocate for the new rules of the road when it comes to acquisition and use of training data for AI models as BLG was among the first law firms to litigate claims and defenses in this area.

BLG has successfully litigated a wide range of complex commercial disputes, including bringing and defending claims for breach of contract and fiduciary duty, unfair competition, trade libel, commercial fraud and misrepresentation, and others.

We have substantial experience in copyright and trademark litigation. We protect our clients’ brands and copyrighted works, including software and structured data, and we also vigorously defend against infringement claims.

We are your satcom strategy advisor and advocate. We can help you secure and modify licenses for your space and earth stations, and negotiate and draft coordination and other spectrum-sharing and commercial agreements that help provide certainty and reduce risk to your business. We can also help you navigate and advocate for changes to regulations governing licensing, use, sharing, and coordination of radio frequency spectrum. In providing these services, we can guide your engineers to meet your practical and strategic needs and advise you on, or directly lead, your discussions with regulators, including the FCC, and with private and public operators. And if litigation arises, we can represent you.

Our attorneys have successfully litigated a wide range of data security and computer forensics issues, including defending against false allegations of software vulnerabilities and using computer forensics to determine and explain how trade secrets were stolen.

BLG’s attorneys have successfully litigated and resolved a wide variety of high-tech and life sciences disputes that fall outside of traditional IP categories. These include disputes over IP and software licenses; software development agreements; collaboration and consulting agreements; Internet law; computer fraud, intrusion, and scraping; misappropriation of online identities; unfair competition; and alleged high-tech trade libel.