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Sole Practitioner

Lawyer Overview

Marc Colen is an attorney who has incorporated his extensive technical knowledge, educations and experience into his law practice, permitting him to provide exceptional service in the firms areas of practice, intellectual property and technically related law and litigation. He has served a diverse clientele that includes manufacturers, e-commerce companies, Internet companies, distributors, health care providers, motion picture producers, entertainers, recording studios and equipment suppliers. For over twenty years Mr. Colen has assisted his clients on all aspects of intellectual property law and technical law and litigation, from trademarks, patent and copyright sto contract negotiations and litigation, from federal regulation to white collar crime, and from toxic tort and product liability litigation to unfair competition litigation.

Mr. Colen is admitted to practice in all of the relevant courts and agencies, including the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court, all of the Federal District Courts in California, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the California Supreme Court and all other Appellate, Superior and Municipal Courts in California.

He is a member of the California Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Society of Automotive and Aerospace Engineers, the Society of Audio Engineers, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers as well as numeorus other law and technical societies and associations.

In addition to his legal expertise, Mr. Colen, who has B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from U.C. L.A., has an extraoridnary breadth of technical knowledge and experience. He has written and had published over forty papers and articles, many in peer reviewed journals, as well as two limited distribution books, has made dozens of television and radio appearances, and has been quoted in over one thousand newspapers.

Mr. Colen has lectured and taught in many venues, teaching at U.C.L.A., the RAND Graduate School and Pierce College. He was a consultant to the RAND Corporation on national and international security matters, where he held a Top Secret security clearance. In addition, he developed and taught a California State Bar approved continuing education course.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property Law
• Internet, Patents, Trademarks and Copyright Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Communications & Media Law
• Science and Technology Law
• Products Liability and Toxic Torts (Plaintiff and Defense)
• Entertainment Law

West Practice Categories

Communications & Media Law, Entertainment, Sports & Leisure Law, Intellectual Property Law, Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Internet -- Cyberspace, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• California, 1983
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1988
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1984
• U.S. Tax Court, 1983

Certification/Specialties

• Patent Law, United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1984

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Academy of Forensic Sciences, 1987 - Present (Member)
• Society of Automotive Engineers, 1984 - Present (Member)
• California Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Los Angeles Bar Association (Member)
• Media District Intellectual Property Association (Member)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member)
• California Copyright Conference (Member)
• IEEE (Member)
• Society of Movie and Television Engineers (Member)
• Audio Engineering Society (Member)

Honors and Awards

• Editorial Board, Journal of Forensic Engineering

Classes and Seminars

• Lecturer, U.C.L.A.
• Lecturer, RAND Graduate School
• Lecturer, Pierce College, Los Angeles
• Developer and Lecturer, Continuing Education of the Bar Course, California State Bar

Education

• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, December, 1982
  J.D.
  Honors: St. Thomas More Honor Society
  Honors: Am. Jur. Award (Administrative Law)
  Honors: Order of the Coif
• University of California, Los Angeles, California, 1974
  M.S.
  Major: Engineering and Applied Science
• University of California, Los Angeles, California, 1972
  B.S.
  Major: Engineering and Applied Science

Published Works

• Causation and Toxic Tort Litigation Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 15, 1987
• Regulation of Hazardous Waste Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 15, 1987
• Litigating Toxic Shock Syndrome Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 18, 1988
• In excess of 20 papers in peer reviewed, academic and technical journals
• Kidnapping: Avoidance and Self-Preservation
• Bomb: Means, Methods and Anti-Societal Uses
• Classified documents

Address

20300 Ventura Blvd.
Suite 120
Woodland Hills, CA 91364-2448

Office Hours

By appointment only

Phones

(818) 716-2891

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