Bryan Cave Adds Counsel in Irvine

IRVINE - Jonathan Pink has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as counsel in the firm’s Irvine office. Pink will practice with the firm’s Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation Groups.

Pink’s practice focuses on high-stakes trademark, trade dress, copyright and trade secret litigation for Fortune 1000 clients in industries including media, manufacturing, software and soft drinks. He recently served as lead counsel in the seminal intellectual property case of Marketing Information Masters v. The Trustees of the California State University System, where he successfully invalidated a portion of the United States Copyright Act as unconstitutional.

A frequent author on intellectual property issues, Pink has appeared as a guest commentator on ESPN and at intellectual property seminars on topics including international and domestic trademark infringement, strategic copyright protection, key word confusion and the rise of the Initial Interest Confusion Doctrine. He will discuss “Blogging: Benefits, Barriers and Bombshells” as a featured speaker at the California State Bar’s 33rd Annual Intellectual Property Institute in November 2008.

Pink received his J.D. in 1995 from Southwestern University School of Law, M.F.A. in 1987 from the University of California-Los Angeles School of Film and Television and B.A. in 1983 from the University of California-Berkeley.

Bryan Cave LLP has a diversified international legal practice. The firm represents a wide variety of business, financial, institutional and individual clients, including publicly held multinational corporations, large and mid-sized privately held companies, partnerships and emerging companies. Subsidiaries Bryan Cave International Trade and Bryan Cave Strategies LLC provide trade and customs consultancy and government relations and strategic counsel, respectively. Aided by extensive investments in technology, Bryan Cave’s more than 1,000 lawyers and other consulting professionals in 23 offices across the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia efficiently serve clients’ needs in the world’s leading business and financial markets.

For more information, contact:

(212) 541-1141