Michael Power Martin

Michael P. Martin specializes in business, entertainment and intellectual property law.  As part of his practice, Mr. Martin assists his clients in: negotiating and drafting business and entertainment agreements; counseling on the management and protection of intellectual property rights and other matters relating to their business operations; evaluating trademarks for selection; filing and prosecuting trademark applications in the United States and abroad; maintaining, policing and enforcing trademark portfolios; prosecuting opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; filing Copyright applications for registration; counseling clients on appropriate markings and copyright protection; securing patents; licensing patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets; and litigating patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, trade secret and licensing matters.

Mr. Martin is also regularly called upon to represent his clients' business and intellectual property interests around the world. His clients include companies based in the United Kingdom, and Mexico who have retained him to represent their interests in the United States, as well as US-based companies with business operations throughout the world, including Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. To assist him in these matters, Mr. Martin has developed relationships with leading law firms around the world.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Martin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1993, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco in 1997.  Mr. Martin has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1997, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for all  California Districts, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals in both the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Circuit. He is also a member of the International Trademark Association, The Beverly Hills Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Reported cases include: Cerveceria Modelo S.A. de C.V. v. R.B. Marco & Sons Inc. (TTAB) 55 USPQ2d 1298, June 13, 2000.