You’ve worked hard to develop and maintain your intellectual property and patents—the lifeblood of your business. To keep your competitive advantage, you need a law firm with an interdisciplinary approach and industry sector focus to enforce, protect and expand the intellectual property rights you need to compete and succeed.

Our team understands what it takes for both new and established businesses to create and execute successful strategies across the full range of intellectual property, privacy, publicity, advertising and First Amendment rights throughout the world. That’s why Dentons works closely with you to understand your industry and business. Using our knowledge and experience, we enforce or defend your intellectual property rights consistent with your short- and long-term business objectives.

We are committed to finding cost-effective strategies and solutions to help protect what’s critical to your business success. Whether it’s acquiring, enhancing and exploiting rights, or defending and enforcing your rights, we can help you with:

• Copyright litigation
• Cybersquatting and domain name litigation
• False advertising
• Intellectual property licensing and related contractual disputes
• Media litigation and disputes 
• Patent litigation
• Technology, telecommunications and outsourcing disputes
• Trademark and passing off litigation
• Trade secret infringement and misuse of confidential information litigation
• Unfair competition
• Anti-counterfeiting
• Custom seizures
• Privacy litigation and disputes
• Rights of publicity litigation
• Copyright Board hearings
• Trademark Opposition Board hearings
• Intellectual property validity and ownership disputes
• Patent infringement and enforcement litigation
• Trademark infringement and trademark dilution
• Intellectual property and related disputes concerning the arts
• Estate and succession disputes in relation to intellectual property rights of artists and creators
• Mediation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution of intellectual property disputes

Recognition

Managing IP recognizes 34 Dentons Intellectual Property lawyers as IP Stars 2022

June 28, 2022

Managing IP has recognized 34 Dentons lawyers from across 17 jurisdictions in the 2022 edition of IP Stars. The ranking highlights outstanding lawyers in the area of intellectual property (IP) law, trademarks and patents.

Dentons Joins Fearsome Foursome

September 20, 2016

Dentons has earned top honors in seven categories and has been selected as a member of an exclusive group of just four law firms in the most recent survey on litigation trends by BTI Consulting. For the first time, Dentons has been included among the "Fearsome Foursome," an honor bestowed upon four elite law firms for their intense approach and fierce tactics in today’s competitive legal market.

57 Dentons Practices and Lawyers Ranked in The Legal 500 US

June 14, 2013

The 2013 edition of The Legal 500 US recognizes 15 Dentons practices and 42 lawyers, representing a more than 50 percent increase in total rankings in the past year. Recognition for the Firm includes "seamless extensions of clients’ teams;" "exemplary strategic and tactical leadership;" and "far above other firms, both in technical strengths and business experience."

Insights

U.S. Copyright Office Panel Kicks the Tires on Potential Licensing Models for AI Training

March 3, 2025

The U.S. Copyright Office released a report on February 12, 2025 analyzing the impact of different approaches to copyright on the development of artificial intelligence. Entitled “Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy,” the report compiles the views of nine academic authors and the Copyright Office’s Chief Economist.

Client Alert: AI Enters the Courtroom—Judges Get Chatty with ChatGPT in Ross v. United States (2025)

February 27, 2025

What is common knowledge? Consider consulting ChatGPT, as the panel in Ross v. United States, a case before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals did. In an opinion issued on February 20, 2025, the majority and dissenting judges publicly disclosed and discussed their use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) tools—specifically, ChatGPT—to assist in reaching a determination regarding whether the government’s reliance on “common knowledge” was sufficient to fill critical gaps in the government’s case. Following in the footsteps of a federal appellate court, dissenting Associate Judge Deahl used ChatGPT to make a point regarding common knowledge, while the majority responded with its own ChatGPT example. For law firms, clients, and legal practitioners, this opinion signals the judiciary’s growing interest, reliance and use of AI tools in the courtroom.

Breaking Point: Court Rules AI Companies Can't Feed on Copyrighted Content

February 18, 2025

United States: The case stems from ROSS Intelligence's efforts to create an AI-powered legal research platform to compete with Thomson Reuters' Westlaw service. When ROSS sought to develop its AI tool, it needed a substantial database of legal questions and answers for training data. After Thomson Reuters declined to license Westlaw's content to ROSS (citing their status as competitors), ROSS contracted with LegalEase, a legal research company, to obtain training data in the form of "Bulk Memos."

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons successfully represented Vodafone Hungary and the members of HET (Hungary's Infocommunications Association)

January 16, 2023

Vodafone Hungary and the members of HET (Hungary's Infocommunications Association, representing the members of the Hungarian telecommunications market such as: Antenna Hungaria, Vodafone HU, UPC, Telenor, Antenna Hungária, Invitel Digi, Deutsche Telekom HU, etc.) has have successfully won the administrative court case against one of the collective societies (EJI-MAHASZ) royalty scheme with the support of Dentons Budapest. 

Managing IP recognizes 34 Dentons Intellectual Property lawyers as IP Stars 2022

June 28, 2022

Managing IP has recognized 34 Dentons lawyers from across 17 jurisdictions in the 2022 edition of IP Stars. The ranking highlights outstanding lawyers in the area of intellectual property (IP) law, trademarks and patents.

Dentons senior associate recognized in MIP’s IP Stars Rising Stars list for 2020/21 in Canada

October 30, 2020

Dentons Senior Associate Meredith Bacal has been recognized in IP Stars Rising Star for Canada 2020/21 as a leading up-and-coming IP practitioner.

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