Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is known for assisting clients with complex trademark, trade dress, and false advertising disputes. The team has a client roster consisting of AI, technology, e-commerce, consumer goods and specialized manufacturing. Based in Los Angeles, Alyssa Caridis leads the team, alongside Sheryl Koval Garko, who represents clients in trademark, copyright, false advertising, and trade secret litigations and at trial. David Hosp‘s practice is focused on trademark, copyright, and media litigation while Mark Puzella also handles litigation, but also provides clients with litigation avoidance strategy. Diana Rutowski, based in Silicon Valley, focuses her practice on IP litigation and counseling, with experience in patent, trademark and trade secrets. All individuals are located in Boston unless stated otherwise.
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Testimonials
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‘The Orrick Team, particularly our lead partner Nathan Shaffer works to understand our business and any unique consideration that inform contract negotiations.’
‘Our lead partner, Nathan Shaffer, is easy to talk to and regularly demonstrates an understanding of our business and partnerships.’
‘Diana Rutowski is an experienced litigator who can identify the key issues in a case. She is ideally placed to coordinate legal proceedings in different countries and consolidate the arguments presented in them.’
Key clients
- Cohere, Inc.
- TSX, Inc.
- New Balance Athletics, Inc.
- Carnival Corporation & PLC
- Polar Beverage
- LL Bean
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Coorstek
- Aghanim
- Cal.com
- Viking River Cruises
- Sage Global Services
- Josh.ai
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
- Microsoft, Inc.
Work highlights
Representing Cohere in a copyright and trademark suit brought by more than a dozen major publishers alleging that its AI models unlawfully used their content in training.
Representing New Balance across a wide range of trademark, trade dress, and false advertising disputes involving its marks and products.
Representing Sony Interactive Entertainment in a federal copyright and trademark action against Tencent alleging that its game Light of Motiram copies protected elements of Sony’s Horizon franchise.
Lawyers
Leading partners
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Practice head
Alyssa Caridis; Sheryl Koval Garko
Other key lawyers
David Hosp; Mark Puzella; Diana Rutowski; Nathan Shaffer