Mr Paul Reilly > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
2001 ROSS AVENUE
DALLAS, TEXAS 75201-2980
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Paul Reilly
Work Department
Intellectual Property / Branding, Advertising & Copyright
Position
Partner
Section Chair – Branding, Advertising & Copyright (Firmwide)
Career
Paul Reilly’s practice focuses on trademark, copyright, trade dress, advertising, branding and unfair competition litigation and counseling. He has represented clients in numerous intellectual property litigations in federal courts throughout the United States. He also has experience handling rights of privacy and publicity, and design patents. Paul has extensive experience rendering opinions on the clearance of trademarks and copyrights, rebranding of companies domestically and internationally, licensing, and the prosecution of trademark applications globally, including in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has also litigated hundreds of oppositions and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and foreign trademark offices on behalf of his clients.
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
New York State Bar
United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas
United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
International Trademark Association
INTA Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition Committee – Dallas (served as oral argument Judge 2014-2018)
State Bar of Texas IP Section – Trademark Committee
New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Former Member
New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Internet Law Committee, Former Chair
Education
J.D., Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center 1994
B.A., English, College of the Holy Cross 1988
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
Back by a global reach spanning the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions, the team at Texas-based firm Baker Botts L.L.P. maintains and safeguards the international copyright portfolios of household name corporates across such sectors as food and beverages, professional services, media, consumer products, financial services, apparel, and tech. The practice is led in Dallas by Paul Reilly, who brings experience to the clearance of trademarks, and the rebranding of companies domestically and internationally. The group is supported by Suzanne Hengl, who, in addition to assisting with licensing and influencer agreements, provides expertise in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the TTAB and in other jurisdictions, and senior associate Julie Albert in New York, who specializes in domain name disputes, social media, advertising, and international enforcement matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense