People: Kenneth L. Wilton, Partner

Kenneth L. Wilton

Partner

Los Angeles - Century City
Direct: (310) 201-5271
Fax: (310) 201-5219
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Mr. Wilton is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. His practice focuses primarily on trademark, copyright, and patent litigation in the U.S. federal courts, and counseling and prosecution in the areas of trademark and copyright law. He has extensive experience litigating trademark disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as the filing and prosecution of trademark applications. He has supervised the conduct of international anti-counterfeiting activities involving the enforcement of trademark and copyright laws throughout the world. He is experienced in and regularly counsels clients regarding Internet-related trademark and copyright issues, and has filed over two dozen proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

Mr. Wilton is a Lecturer in Law at USC's Gould School of Law, where he teaches Internet Law.  He regularly lectures on intellectual property and Internet law at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business, and has presented in the areas of copyright and trademark law, including the protection of intellectual property on the Internet and domain name disputes, to professional and business organizations.

In the 2006, 2008 and 2010 bi-annual surveys conducted by Managing Intellectual Property of over 4,000 practitioners in 60 countries, Mr. Wilton was named one of the “World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners.” In 2006 and 2007, he was awarded the title “Super Lawyer” in surveys of his peers conducted by Law & Politics, and he was included in the 2008 Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.

Mr. Wilton is a member of the UCLA History Advisory Council and has achieved the highest rating, A/V, by Martindale Hubbell.

 

Mr. Wilton is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. His practice focuses primarily on trademark, copyright, and patent litigation in the U.S. federal courts, and counseling and prosecution in the areas of trademark and copyright law. He has extensive experience litigating trademark disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as the filing and prosecution of trademark applications. He has supervised the conduct of international anti-counterfeiting activities involving the enforcement of trademark and copyright laws throughout the world. He is experienced in and regularly counsels clients regarding Internet-related trademark and copyright issues, and has filed over two dozen proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

Mr. Wilton is a Lecturer in Law at USC's Gould School of Law, where he teaches Internet Law.  He regularly lectures on intellectual property and Internet law at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business, and has presented in the areas of copyright and trademark law, including the protection of intellectual property on the Internet and domain name disputes, to professional and business organizations.

In the 2006, 2008 and 2010 bi-annual surveys conducted by Managing Intellectual Property of over 4,000 practitioners in 60 countries, Mr. Wilton was named one of the “World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners.” In 2006 and 2007, he was awarded the title “Super Lawyer” in surveys of his peers conducted by Law & Politics, and he was included in the 2008 Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.

Mr. Wilton is a member of the UCLA History Advisory Council and has achieved the highest rating, A/V, by Martindale Hubbell.

 

Education

  • J.D., Hastings College of the Law, (1986)

    Editor-in-Chief, COMM/ENT, Hastings Journal of Commnications and Entertainment Law (1985-1986)

  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (1983)

Admissions

  • California

Courts

  • Supreme Court of California
  • U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits
  • U.S. Tax Court
  • All U.S. District Courts of California
  • District Court of Colorado

Affiliations

  • Los Angeles Intellectual Property Inn of Court, Master of the Bench
  • International Trademark Association (Member, Trademark Reporter Committee)
  • Beverly Hills Bar Association (New Technology Committee Co-Chair, 1996-97 and Intellectual Property Section Chair, 1997-2000)
  • Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Los Angeles County and American Bar Associations (Sections on Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Computer Law)

Presentations

  • University of Southern California Gould School of Law: Lecturer on Copyright and the Internet (2002-2006); Lecturer in Law, Internet Law (2009 - present)
  • Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University:  Lecturer on Intellectual Property and Internet Law (2008 - present)
  • Lecturer on Copyright and the Internet, University of Southern California School of Law (2002-2005)

Publications

  • "A Brief Analysis of Cross-BorderIP Litigation Issues," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (June 2005)