Current Employment Position(s)

Managing Partner

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Specializing in Patent
• Copyright
• Trademark Clearance
• Copyright
• Trade Secret
• Unfair Competition Clearance
• Protection
• Enforcement
• Licensing

Representative Cases

• CitiCasters Co. v. Country Club Communs, 44 U.S.P.Q. 2d (U.S. District Court, Central District of CA 1997)
• Guthy-Renker Corp. v. Bernstein , (U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2002)
• ElectroPix Inc. v. Liberty Livewire Corp., CA, 178 F. Supp. 2d (.S. District Court, Central District 2001)
• Guthy-Renker Fitness L.L.C. v. Icon Health and Fitness, 179 F.R.D. 264 (U.S. District Court, Central District of CA 1998)
• National Consumer Eng'g v. Lockheed Martin, 43 U.S.P.Q. 2d (U.S. District Court, Central District of CA, 1997)
• BMMG, Inc. v. American Telecast Corp , (U.S. District Court, Central District of CA 1993)

West Practice Categories

Licensing, Unfair Competition, Collections & Repossessions, Family Law, Intellectual Property Law, Copyrights, Patents, Trade Secrets

Bar Admissions

• California, 1986
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Federal Courts, 1986
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1988

Certification/Specialties

• Patent Law, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Santa Monica Bar Association (Board of Trustees)
• Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association (Member)
• Federal Bar Association (Board of Directors)
• Los Angeles Copyright Society
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• American Bar Association
• Malibu La Costa (Board of Directors)
• Malibu Winding Way Homeowners Association (Board of Directors)
• Malibu MPC Nursery School (Board of Directors)
• Younglife of Malibu (Board of Directors)
• Santa Monica Bar Association (Past President)
• Malibu Winding Way Homeowners Association (Past President)

Honors and Awards

• Dean Atkinson Award

Past Employment Positions

• Pretty, Schroeder, Brueggemann & Clark of Los Angeles, CA

Education

• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, 1986
  J.D.
  Honors: Top Quarter of class
• University of California, Los Angeles, California, 1981
  B.S.
  Major: Engineering (Electro-Mechanical-Computer)

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Kappa Psi

Accepts Credit Cards

Address

1333 2nd Street
Suite 500
Santa Monica, CA 90401-1211

Phones

(310) 451-0647

Faxes

(310) 394-4477

Emails

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Websites

http://www.cisloandthomas.com/