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Jenifer deWolf Paine concentrates in the area of intellectual property, focusing primarily on copyright and trademark counseling, litigation, transactions, prosecution, and inter partes proceedings. Ms. Paine represents large international corporations, small businesses, and individual artists in protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights.
In litigation, Ms. Paine has successfully defended a recording artist and his record label against claims of trademark infringement, defended record labels and recording artists against claims of copyright infringement, assisted in brokering a settlement of false endorsement claims against a health care product manufacturer, assisted in structuring a complex licensing relationship in settlement of trademark claims against a record label, and settled numerous trade dress claims in the fashion and apparel industries.
In addition, Ms. Paine has counseled clients in connection with their large international trademark portfolios in addition to managing those portfolios. Ms. Paine has also handled a number of domain name and Internet-related trademark disputes for significant consumer products companies in the entertainment and media industries, real estate industries, fashion and apparel industries and others.
Ms. Paine is a frequent lecturer and author of many articles, including "Legal Issues In The Music Business From The Artist's Perspective," Lawyering for the Media and Entertainment Industries, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1996; and "Issues for Producers of Multimedia" in Multimedia Licensing, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1995; "Copyrights, Trademarks, and Moral Rights" in Art Law Handbook — Traditional and New Media Issues (published by Aspen Law and Business in 2000); and is a regular contributor to An Overview of the Copyright Law, published annually by PLI. In addition, Ms. Paine has been a frequent contributor to the monthly INTA Bulletin and is currently an editor of the INTA Trademark Reporter.
Ms. Paine earned her B.A. degree at Boston University and her J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law. She is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, the Federal District of Massachusetts, the New York Bar, the Southern District of New York, the California Bar, and the U.S. Court of Claims. She is a member of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee, the Copyright Society of the United States of America and the International Trademark Association (INTA).
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