Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Firm overview:
Global corporate specialist Skadden leverages its multidisciplinary and international reach to provide trademark services to its rich roster of US and international clients. Skadden’s expertise ranges from day-to-day trademark matters up to representing the International Trademark Association in amicus briefs before the Supreme Court and US Circuit Court of Appeals on trademark tracking and ‘disparaging’ trademarks. The firm handles litigation for clients across a variety of fields such as consumer products, artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security, pharmaceuticals, video games and more.
Team overview:
Lawyers who act opposite New York lawyer Anthony Dreyer consider him a “fantastic” litigator. Dreyer litigates matters involving Lanham Act claims, copyright and rights of publicity. Peers recognise “his niche is sports”, and Dreyer’s track record attests to this, having represented the NFL and Major League Soccer. However, his expertise extends to other industries; he successfully protected food production company Del Monte’s trademark rights in the US, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He also successfully defended Sadler’s Brewing in defeating a motion for preliminary injunction over its use of the ‘Peaky Blinders’ mark.
Key matters:
- Investment law firm Metacapital, represented by Anthony Dreyer and Jordan Feirman of Skadden, filed a trademark lawsuit against Meta over its name change from Facebook. The parties said in a court filing in May 2024 that they had agreed to a settlement in principle and asked the court to pause the case while it was finalised.
Clients:
Citigroup, Major League Soccer, Metacapital Management, The National Football League, The National Hockey League, O’Reilly Automotive Services, Peet’s Coffee, The PGA Tour.
