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Professional Experience
Mr. Karasik has an extensive background in intellectual property litigation, as well as other forms of complex litigation including class actions. He is an expert in "economic espionage" and has represented clients in high profile matters involving government prosecution of trade secret theft and other allegations of corrupt business practices.
Mr. Karasik has substantial experience in the areas of protecting trade secrets and technology rights. He has brought actions to enjoin employees from transferring trade secrets to a competitor and handled various matters involving unfair competition, violation of restrictive covenants and Lanham Act claims. He has been lead counsel in dozens of claims for enforcement of trade secrets and has obtained numerous Consent Judgments restraining the use of trade secrets. He is one of very few attorneys nationwide to have obtained criminal prosecution against competitors and "insiders" by the Department of Justice under the Economic Espionage Act, and has also obtained state prosecution under wiretapping and other state laws touching on protection of intellectual property.
Mr. Karasik´s work in these areas was featured by the Los Angeles Business Journal in February 2002 in an article entitled "Spy Games." He is the author of several articles in the trade secret area, including Chapters 13 through 18 (criminal prosecution of trade secret theft) of the California State Bar hornbook on trade secret practice, Trade Secret Litigation and Protection in California (2005), "Under the Economic Espionage Act," featured in the Federal Lawyer in October 2001, and "Protect Trade Secrets from a Corporate Raid," published in Workforce Legal Insight in February 2000.
Mr. Karasik has also handled substantial matters involving other forms of intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights and patents. He has handled claims under the Lanham Act to restrain uses of marks that are likely to mislead and for false representations about technology. He has assisted clients in numerous cases to enforce their copyrights, including claims by a major motion picture studio against another studio for infringement of production, development and distribution rights over a literary work that was the basis for a $150 million theatrical release. Mr. Karasik has also been involved in matters arising under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, including cases requiring issuance of "take down" notices to Internet Service Providers and signal theft of satellite television programming. Mr. Karasik has also litigated patent matters involving toy products, electrical products and medical devices.
Mr. Karasik has also been lead counsel in class actions and multi-plaintiff cases involving allegations of unfair business practices and unfair competition. These include lead counsel responsibility for a putative nationwide class challenging the client´s pricing and contract policies applicable to millions of subscribers. And he has assisted clients in defending Department of Justice subpoenas into suspected misconduct involving alleged bribery of public officials, signal theft and violations of ethical standards.
Mr. Karasik also has extensive experience in wrongful termination litigation, and matters arising from allegations that employees were fired for disclosing ethical violations or for reporting illegal conduct. Because of his experience in prosecuting employee theft of intellectual property, he is frequently called upon to counsel clients on the management of their intellectual property assets and to develop workplace policies and business infrastructures to support successful operations.
Education
Stanford University, J.D., 1981
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1978
Professional Memberships and Activities
Member, State Bar of California, Intellectual Property Section; Member, American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section; Member, AIPLA, Trade Secrets Committee. | 