Cyrus Wadia is a partner in Cooper's San Francisco office, specializing in intellectual property and business litigation. In the intellectual property field, Mr. Wadia has handled trademark, unfair competition, copyright, trade secret, and licensing litigation and transactional matters in a wide range of contexts, including Internet business practices, proprietary technology rights, digital rights management, cybersquatting, software, advertising, and branding of companies in the telecommunications, software, multimedia, and wine industries. Mr. Wadia has also worked on matters involving publishing law such as defamation, privacy, and the right of publicity. Mr. Wadia manages contract matters in the areas of technology and electronic commerce, sales and distribution agreements, non-competition and non-disclosure agreements. Mr. Wadia also represents artists, writers, and designers to protect their intellectual property, including home furnishing textile designers such as India Rose, and modern design store Design Public. Mr. Wadia also has extensive experience in business litigation, including the areas of real estate, property tax, and class action consumer protection litigation. He represents gas and electric utilities, merchant power generators, telecommunications and billboard companies, product manufacturers, real estate investment trusts, and other real estate owners in a wide variety of contexts including condemnation actions. |