Apparel Garment Clothing Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.2791

Experience

This expert has twenty years of experience in consumer licensing (revenue, standards, performance and breaches), trademarks, copyrights, and the apparel business. He can testify, identify important issues and suggest discovery in his areas of expertise. His areas of expertise include secondary meaning, trade dress, similarity of marks, intellectual property due diligence, trademark and copyright infringement, theft of trademarks, and intellectual property analysis and valuation. He can evaluate licensee and licensor performance under the standards of the industry. In the apparel business, he can review performance of a wide array of agreements to determine if it is consistent with the standards of the industry.

An outline of his areas of expertise:

International and Domestic Licensing: revenue projections, forecasts, standards, performance, breach, selection of licensees; Intellectual property: analysis, due diligence, investigations
      
Copyright Infringement: substantial similarity and originality
      
Intellectual Property Management and Development
      
Trademarks and Service Marks: international and foreign registration, secondary meaning, infringement, dilution, searches, investigations, due diligence, theft, trade dress, counterfeiting, litigation, standards of practice for attorneys
      
The Apparel and Fashion Businesses: performance of contracts, manufacturing (domestic and international), import, export, sales, distribution, compliance, factory conditions, apparel copyrights, substantial similarity of apparel lines, theft and protection of designs
      
Standards of Practice of Apparel Business Lawyers, Intellectual Property Lawyers and Licensing Lawyers: Based on his 25 years of in depth experience as a lawyer in the apparel business and with intellectual property and licensing law, this expert can provide  opinions as to the standard of care of lawyers in these areas. He has provided such opinions for both defendants and plaintiffs.
      
Standards of Practice of Lawyers Supervising Private Investigators: This expert has managed hundreds of investigations of related to civil and criminal matters and tens of thousands of non-litigated matters. He has trained other investigators, attorneys, police and U.S. Customs agents in intellectual property investigations. Due to his vast experience in this area, he is qualified to testify about the generally accepted standards of supervision of private investigators, for example, whether the attorneys and companies which have hired an investigator have been negligent in their supervision.
      
Private Investigation: this expert  is a licensed private investigator. He has done a variety of investigations over 20 years, including evidence and asset locations and evaluations and intellectual property matters. These investigations have been in connection with non-litigated matters, civil litigation and criminal matters. In addition to performing investigations, he has directed and managed investigations by other investigators and personnel in over a dozen different countries and many different states. He is qualified to testify about the generally accepted standards of conduct in the private investigative business.