Payne & Fears LLP attorneys have a broad range of experience in handling disputes and litigation involving intellectual property assets.  From individuals to Fortune 100 companies, our clients have relied on us to represent them with respect to:

  • Trade secret enforcement and defense
  • Intellectual property disputes arising from license and indemnity agreements
  • Trademark and trade dress infringement
  • Copyright infringement
  • Antitrust

Our attorneys have the experience, trial skills, and resources required to efficiently resolve even the most complex cases.  We serve the intellectual property needs of clients in the digital technology, network security, telecommunications, finance, publishing, and health care fields.  In addition to providing critical legal support to emerging companies facing copyright, trademark, antitrust and trade secret challenges, our attorneys also regularly counsel and represent established high technology companies throughout California on intellectual property and other technology-related issues.

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Recent Successes

2018

Won TRO Against Former E*TRADE Employee

Payne & Fears LLP client E*TRADE was granted a temporary restraining order by the federal district court in Chicago, barring a former employee—a financial consultant—from using confidential information to solicit E*TRADE’s clients away from the provider and to her new employer, Morgan Stanley. 

In the case E*TRADE Financial Corp. v. Pospisil, evidence showed that the former employee accessed E*TRADE’s customer data shortly before she left the firm. The court deemed it reasonable to infer that she accessed it in...

Alejandro G. Ruiz, Blake A. Dillion