Key IP Risks in Business Acquisitions: Hidden Liabilities and Legal Pitfalls.
Advising a client in connection with the acquisition of a business or real estate?  Did you know that counterintuitive intellectual property laws can limit your client’s ownership interest in the subject of the acquisition or expose your client to millions in hidden liabilities?  Experienced intellectual property lawyer Peter Afrasiabi reveals these traps for the unwary, including moral rights in certain art works, statutory damages for copyright infringement, lack of copyright ownership for works created by independent contractors and trademark counterfeiting mistakes, and what steps you can take to protect your clients from these risks.
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Founding Partner at One, LLP
Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
