Overview
Clark focuses his practice on trademark, copyright, domain name, licensing, and anti-counterfeiting matters, both in the United States and internationally. He has more than two decades of experience in all aspects of international trademark and copyright laws, including conflict and litigation cases, acquisitions and divestitures involving due diligence for intellectual property assets, licensing and franchising, enforcement actions, and global portfolio management. As part of his sophisticated international practice, he has worked with local counsel in more than 200 countries and coordinated litigation in the United States and abroad. His clients include multinational corporations, startup companies, Fortune 200 companies, and household names.
Clark is known for his thought leadership and knowledge of the field, which enables him to provide a cost-effective and strategic approach to his clients’ challenges. He is a frequent author on issues involving online liability for trademark infringers and counterfeiters, geographical indications, and famous trademarks, among other topics, and has lectured on these topics to various professional groups throughout the United States and on six continents, including to the China Trademark Association, the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association, the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, the AIPPI South Africa, the U.K. Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (of which he is a long-standing member), the Japan Patent Attorneys Association, the Coalition of Intellectual Property Rights, the International Association of Intellectual Property, and many others.
He is also active in various professional associations. He is the past president of the U.S. group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and a former member of the executive committee of the board of directors for the International Trademark Association (INTA), and has chaired numerous ABA and INTA trademark and copyright committees. As an internet domain name arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Clark has rendered 57 published decisions and is an active member of the Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He previously served as a consultant to the U.S. government on implementation of the World Trade Organization TRIPS Agreement concerning trademark, patent, and copyright issues.
Clark is consistently considered one of the world’s top trademark lawyers by various rankings.