Kennedy Law

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LAW, LLP

Company Profile

INTRO

Kennedy Law, LLP, is a boutique
full-service intellectual property and
commercial litigation law firm based
in Dallas, Texas. Our attorneys of-
fer a full range of legal services to
protect, enforce, and defend your
intellectual property. Our practice
areas include trademark, copyright,
patent litigation, trade secrets, labor
& employment, securities litigation,
oil & gas, and related corporate and
business law services. We strive to
deliver cost-effective and innovative
solution for our clients.

COMMERCIAL
LITIGATION

Kennedy Law’s experienced commer-
cial litigation team has decades of
experience handling complex busi-
ness disputes in state, federal, and
appellate courts across the nation.
Our office has represented indivi-
duals, small businesses, and large
corporations through all aspects of
business disputes, including from in-
itial negotiations to trial. Our team
is committed to providing cost-ef-
fective and successful resolution of
complex business disputes.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK

In addition to intellectual property litigation, our firm handles transactional intellectual pro-
perty matters related to both trademarks and copyrights.
Our trademark services include legal evaluation and advisory services for prospective trade-
marks, comprehensive trademark clearance searches, filing of federal trademark registrations,
responses to Offices Actions, and trademark maintenance filings. We institute and defend
opposition and cancellation proceedings at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
We also offer a full range of transactional copyright services. Our team is experienced in filing
copyright registrations with the United States Copyright Office, drafting copyright licensing
agreements, and drafting copyright ownership transfer agreements.

PATENT LITIGATION

We understand that patents are highly valuable assets. As an intellectual property boutique,
Kennedy Law is able to provide focused experience to our clients. Our attorneys have exten-
sive experience in enforcing, defending, and protecting patents and have served as trusted
litigation counsel to clients throughout the United States and the world. Our patent team has
appeared in various U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission, and the United
States Court of Federal Claims on patent issues. Kennedy Law routinely advises clients on
patent licensing issues, reviews patents to provide validity opinions, and represents both
plaintiffs and defendants in patent litigation.

TRADE SECRETS

The Uniform Trade Secrets Act defines a trade secret as “information, including a
formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process; that
derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally
known to or readily ascertainable through appropriate means by other persons who
might obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and is the subject of efforts
that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.” The lawyers at
Kennedy Law know that a trade secret includes more than just the elements defined
above; it is your business, your contacts, your software code, your research, your en-
gineering, your methods and procedures that define your company and have made
you a success.
We understand that in trade secret law, there is much at risk. Our office routinely drafts
non-disclosure, non-compete, and non-solicitation agreements to protect your propri-
etary business information. We have successfully helped clients recover and restrict
their information from further disclosure and have represented defendants who have
been accused of trade secret misappropriation.

The firm has significant experience in finding
creative ways to provide clients with choices in
these tough times, and negotiating and litigating

from a position of strength

BANKRUPTCY

Kennedy Law represents small businesses, entrepreneurial minded individuals and other enti-
ties in times of financial distress. The firm has significant experience in finding creative ways
to provide clients with choices in these tough times, and negotiating and litigating from a
position of strength. Kennedy Law knows how to protect your assets and your business. Our
attorneys have significant experience representing businesses, committees, investors, indivi-
duals, corporate officers, trustees, and other entities in workout, liquidation or reorganization
proceedings, including under the United States Bankruptcy Code.
Creditors’ Rights
Failing to collect what is owed is a primary cause of business failure. Kennedy Law has significant
experience in collecting moneys that are due, obtaining judgments and seeking post-judgment
remedies, and holding the debtor’s feet to the fire to obtain what the client is owed.

STEVE KENNEDY

BIOGRAPHY

Steve Kennedy began his career 30 years ago with the honor of clerking for the Honorable J.
Craig Wright of the Ohio Supreme Court. Over four different decades of legal practice, Steve has
unremittingly imposed on himself the standard of analysis that was required during his judicial
clerkship. Steve has successfully represented clients in high profile litigation matters, Internatio-
nal Trade Commission investigations, and arbitration proceedings. He has specific experience in
litigating patent infringement and related antitrust cases, business litigation cases, and copyright
cases. Steve is currently handling ongoing litigation involving smart- software technology, Lanham
Act disputes, trade secret cases, right of publicity cases, and digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA) matters involving digital rights.
In 2003, Steve prevailed at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a matter concerning
proper claims construction in a patent case. From 2004 through 2005, he obtained three prelimi-
nary injunctions in different jurisdictions covering copyright protected software and trade secrets
which resulted in the collection, impoundment and eventual destruction of more than 100 different
pieces of computer equipment. In 2007, he won a sanctions hearing against a party that violated
a preliminary injunction in a software copyright case pending in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2008, he
won a jury verdict of $4.624 Million, plus fees and costs in a copyright case in Fort Worth, Texas. In
2015, he obtained a jury finding of willful infringement in a trademark case.

EDUCATION

Steve Kennedy graduated cum laude and Order of the Coif from The University of Toledo,
College of Law. He served as Technical Editor for the Law Review. Prior to law school, Steve
attended Vanderbilt University, receiving his BA in History and Sociology. He served as Pre-
sident of the History Majors Association and was active in the Vanderbilt University Theatre.

ACTIVITIES

Steve Kennedy has the honor of serving on the Dallas Bar Association Ethics Committee as
well as the Judiciary Committee. He regularly writes for the Dallas Bar Headnotes on issues
pertaining to ethics. Steve served as President of the Intellectual Property Section for the Liti-
gation Group for the State Bar of Texas in 1990 and served as a panelist for the Texas Lawyer
Intellectual Property Roundtable from 2008 through 2012.

CHELSIE SPENCER

BIOGRAPHY

Chelsie Spencer is a partner with Kennedy Law, LLP. Her practice model focuses on a balance
of transactional and litigation work in intellectual property matters and complex commercial
disputes. On the transactional side, Chelsie routinely advises clients on securing federal regis-
trations of their trademarks and copyrights. She has secured registration of multiple federal
trademarks and copyrights for her clients. Chelsie has negotiated and drafted licensing and
assignment agreements for a variety of industries, including record labels, publishing compa-
nies, authors, and other content providers.
Chelsie also litigates intellectual property and complex commercial disputes. Her litigation
experience includes enforcing and defending claims of copyright infringement, trademark
infringement, patent infringement, false designation of origin, trade secret misappropriation,
breach of contract, and tortious interference with contract, among others. She is licensed in
both Texas and Florida and has represented clients in federal and state litigation throughout
the nation, at both the trial and appellate level. She has tried numerous cases to verdict in
both state and federal courts.

EDUCATION

Chelsie attended the University of Miami School of Law in Miami, Florida, where she was an
Outstanding Merit scholar and member of the Charles C. Papy Moot Court Board, Phi Delta Phi
Legal Honors Fraternity, and Alpha Epilson Lambda Graduate Honor Society. While practicing
in Miami, she served as the University of Miami’s Moot Court coach for the BMI Cardozo Enter-
tainment Law and Pepperdine Entertainment Law competition teams.

ACTIVITIES

Chelsie is a member of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Texas, the Intellectu-
al Property Section of the Dallas Bar Association, the International Trademark Association, and
the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property. She is an active member of the
Dallas Bar Association’s Community Involvement Committee.

DAVID RITTER

BIOGRAPHY

David Ritter has over 22 years of legal experience in commercial and business litigation,
business restructuring and bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights. David is known as an aggressive
litigator and creative problem-solver. David enjoys being the attorney of choice for small
businesses and entrepreneurial minded individuals. David strives to anticipate the end game
early for the client.
David has represented clients across the nation including individuals, family owned busines-
ses, trustees, receivers, community banks, large national banking associations, well financed
private equity entities, and Fortune 500 companies. His clients span a variety of industries
including oil, gas, and energy, banking and financial services, construction, retail and wholesa-
le distribution, defense industry, insurance, hospitality, entertainment, restaurants, real estate,
technology, trademark, copyright, health care, transportation and logistics, automotive, and
telecommunications. David takes a holistic view of a client’s needs and endeavors to provide
for full client satisfaction.

EDUCATION

David received his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1994, where he
served as a research editor on the Houston Journal of International Law, and an editor on the
Environmental Law Review.
David also serves as a mediator having received his mediation certificate from the A. A. White
Dispute Resolution Center in Houston, Texas, and sometimes works as an arbitrator for the
Better Business Bureau of North Texas. David received his undergraduate degree from The
University of Texas at Austin.

ACTIVITIES

David affiliates with professional bar organizations, including the Dallas Bar Association In-
ternational Law Section and Bankruptcy Law Section, and the Collin County Bar Association.
David serves on the Council of the International Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association,
where he is currently serving as Secretary and has previously served as Treasurer. David is
also a member of the Bankruptcy Law, International Law and Computer and Technology Law
Sections of the State Bar of Texas.
David serves in a leadership role in the Dallas Bar Association’s mentorship program with the
International Law Society of the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.

Contact

1445 Ross Avenue #2750
Dallas, TX 75202

Phone: 214-716-4343
Fax: 214-593-2821

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