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PragmaticGC provides tailored legal solutions in Intellectual Property, Contracts, Compliance, and Licensing. I simplify complex legal challenges, protect your business, and help you seize opportunities with clarity and confidence.

Contracts

Development and management of all aspects of “in-bound” (licensee) and “out-bound” (licensor) licensing programs.
Licensing of patents, trademarks, copyright, NIL, together with “hybrid” licenses that grant multiple types of intellectual property in one agreement.

Licensing

Specializing in domestic, “brand-sided” agreements with overseas contact manufacturers, raw materials suppliers and importers.
Also experienced in contracting with domestic and international distributors and retailers.
Specific experience representing U.S.-based companies partnering with Asia-based manufacturers and suppliers.

Supply Chain Agreements

Comprehensive experience in all types of commercial agreements with all varieties of counterparties, including vendors, service providers and partners.

General Commercial Agreements

Experienced in industries that rely heavily on proprietary information and intellectual property, including non-disclosure obligations and invention assignment arrangements.

Employment and Contractor Agreements

Company- and brand-sided agreements used to acquire design and development services of third parties.

Product Design and Development Agreements

IT vendors; partners that provide services related to ecommerce and social media.

Technology Contracts

Company-sided agreements for the sponsorship of, and endorsement by, athletes, celebrities, sport governing bodies and leagues, and other third-party partners.

Sponsorship Agreements

Purchase, sale and lease agreements.

Real Estate

Contract Management

Advice and services related to sourcing, implementing and using contract management systems that track contract assets.
Automation (in whole or in part) of drafting, delivery, negotiation, redlining, execution, reporting and post-execution reminders regarding renewal, expiration and payment obligations.

Tracking, Reporting and Automation

Preparation and review of forms to be used by contract management systems.
Establish electronic “click through” agreements into which contracting counter-party information may be input online, together with electronic signature capabilities.

Form Preparation and Management

Preparation of policy and procedure documents that capture all aspects of the contract lifecycle; training related to these policies and procedures.

Lifecycle

Intellectual Property

Trademark clearance searches (i.e., “freedom to operate”).
Federal trademark application and prosecution.
Prosecution and defense of contested trademark matters in front of the USPTO (inter partes and ex parte proceedings).

Trademark Clearance and Registration

Experienced in managing large global trademark portfolios (1,000+ assets).
Develop global registration and filing strategies. Trademark maintenance, monitoring, and enforcement.
When appropriate, selection of and contracting with outside counsel and foreign associates.

Trademark Portfolio Management

Develop and implement global anti-counterfeiting program and customs registration policy.

Anti-Counterfeiting

Experienced in managing legal affairs for significant global in-bound & out-bound licensing operations (up to 8-figure business units).

Licensing

Experienced in managing significant global patent portfolios (200+ assets).
Development of global prosecution strategy.
Where appropriate, selection of product- and industry-specific specialized outside patent counsel and foreign associates for purposes of prosecuting new patents and to secure “freedom to operate” opinions on emerging technologies, designs, products, and manufacturing processes.

Patents

Support for Sales Operations

Comprehensive analysis of all product- and industry-specific details, including general terms and conditions for the sale of goods on credit.

Sales Agreements

Draft and implement programs and agreements regarding marketplace sales (or programs and agreements that prohibit or limit reselling through online marketplaces).
Ecommerce and channel-restrictive sales and distribution agreements.

Ecommerce & Channel Hygiene

Draft and implement programs, policies and enforcement “playbooks”.

MAP (“Minimum Advertised Price”) Policies

Establish licensing governance programs (compliance, audit, enforcement, litigation strategies & settlement).

Licensing Program Governance

General Corporate

Partner with Finance teams to properly set credit terms and limits; security agreements (for goods sold on credit); personal guarantees; and programs that ensure financial health of customer accounts.
Manage customer accounts during bankruptcy proceedings and reorganizations.
On the company’s behalf, participate in or lead creditor committees during customers’ Chapter 11 proceedings.

Finance

Manage compliance for Marketing campaigns, including preparation of terms and conditions for sweepstakes and contests.
Compliance and risk-mitigation measures for social media campaigns and product “demo days”.
Content clearance.
Compliance associated with online-based product review programs.

Marketing

Scope, manage and implement compliance programs for California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar statutes and regulatory regimes.

Privacy

Setting policies for using GenAI tools, specifically those commonly deployed in the consumer products industry.
Establishing procedures to empower companies with confidence to implement tools like Midjourney, Vizcom, Stable Difusion and Krea.
Developing intra-company “guard rails” necessary before deploying other GenAI-powered tools, be they be for customer service, developing UX/UI designs, marketing campaigns or multimedia content.
Implementation Terms:
- Review GenAI Terms of Use and Terms of Service.
- If possible, negotiate special B2B commercial terms for GenAI-powered tools.
- Ensure terms protect against accidental disclosure of confidential or proprietary information; and
- Clearly define and carve-out “excluded data” (data that cannot be used for AI training).

Gen AI Processes and Procedures

Compliance

Develop and implement compliance programs across various product- and industry-specific regulatory regimes, including federal and state consumer product safety regulations, together with regulatory and testing programs prescribed by national governing bodies and standard-setting organizations.

Safety Standards & Protocols

Serve as Corporate Secretary.
Prepare agendas and minutes for Board of Directors meetings.
Prepare, implement and provide training for corporate and business-specific governance programs (product design and development programs, compliance programs specific to standard-setting organizations’ requirements, QA and QC programs, etc.)

Corporate Governance

Other

Programs, policies and procedures for in-house legal or business and legal affairs departments, including budget preparation, monitoring and benchmarking.

Department Management

Design, develop and implement “loss recovery” programs to mitigate against litigation risk following disgruntled consumer calls, with the goal of reducing or eliminating litigation following initial customer personal-injury complaints.
Train Customer Service teams on “loss recovery” programs.

Customer Service

Review payment histories to develop a strategy to save on legal costs.
Recover revenue from overlooked and unorthodox sources (i.e., reduce payments under contracts with unhelpful partners and suppliers; investigate overly aggressive retailer charge-back practices; negotiate exit or termination of contracts with duplicative or poorly performing vendors and partners).

Cost Savings and Revenue Recovery

Source, analyze, acquire, and manage complex, “multi-towered” insurance programs.
Establish, document and implement “best practices” to become a more appealing insured which, in turn, can reduce premiums or avoid premium cost escalation.

Risk Management and Insurance

Build out, prune or reduce entity organizational chart.
Research and report back on which jurisdictions business or business units need (or do not need) to be registered or qualified.
New entity formation.

Entity Management

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