Pirkey Barber PLLC


Headquarters: Austin, Texas

17 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

5 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards

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Pirkey Barber is one of the largest firms in the United States focusing on the fields of trademark and copyright law. Our offices are located in Austin, Texas and the Washington DC Metro- area (Tysons, VA) and our clients are located throughout the world. With a team of leading experts in the field, we have guided a wide range of extraordinary clients through dynamic shifts in technology and the world economy that have profoundly affected strategies for protecting and enforcing brands and content.

Experience and Expertise

With years of collective experience representing clients from a variety of industries, our attorneys devote their time to trademark and copyright law and are well-versed in both prosecution and adversarial matters. We help clients large and small establish, protect, defend, and enforce their rights as owners of valuable marks including some of the most well-known trademarks in the world.

Experienced in all facets of trademark clearance and prosecution, we counsel clients regarding brand selection and help develop and implement global trademark strategies. Our attorneys regularly perform preliminary trademark searches; analyze full searches performed by outside vendors; represent clients before the USPTO and the TTAB through all aspects of registration, from filing applications through ex parte appeal; and manage global trademark portfolios of all sizes.

We help companies minimize social media risks while maximizing brand protection by advising on responsible and lawful social media use, conducting social media risk assessment, protecting IP assets and developing policies to promote collaboration between marketing and legal departments.

We counsel clients seeking to acquire, protect and enforce copyright assets, and assist in obtaining registrations, assessing fair use claims, negotiating licenses, and asserting “take down” notices or claiming “safe harbor” status under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

We have represented defendants and plaintiffs in hundreds of trademark and domain name cases in federal court, before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s domain name dispute policies.


Management & Demographics
Management & Personnel
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Clients
Clients
  • 3M
  • 7 Eleven, Inc.
  • Baylor University
  • Best Buy
  • DELL
  • Ecolab
  • ExxonMobil
  • HEB Grocery
  • Insperity
  • Kendra Scott
  • SXSW
  • TGI Friday's Inc
  • The University of Texas
  • The Wendy's Company
  • Valero
  • Whole Foods Market
About Our Clients

Pirkey Barber's trademark and copyright expertise supports some of the most recognizable and valuable marks. Our client roster includes:

3M

7 Eleven, Inc.

Alamo Drafthouse

Austinuts

Baylor University

Best Buy

County Line

Dell

Ecolab

ExxonMobil

For Eyes Optical

HEB Grocery

Insperity

Kendra Scott

SXSW (South By Southwest Festivals)

TGI Friday’s

The University of Texas

Valero Energy

The Wendy's Company

Whataburger

Whole Foods Market

Contacts
Contacts
Bill Barber
Trademark Litigation
512.482.5223
Chris Kindel
Trademark Licensing
512.334.8495
Shannon T. Vale
Copyright
512.482.5235

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  • Copyright Law
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law

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