Carlo Frank Vandenbosch

Practice Details

• Languages
  Dutch
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Litigation: Mr. Van den Bosch h
  les high-stakes IP litigation across many industries.
  Notable Cases: Mr. Van den Bosch successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court
  obtained a unanimous decision on behalf of his client in a trademark infringement matter where the plaintiff sought damages in excess of $40 million. Hana Financial v. Hana Bank . 574 U.S. 418 (2015). The Supreme Court resolved a Circuit split involving the doctrine of trademark tacking in its first substantive trademark decision in nearly a decade.
  Mr. Van den Bosch successfully argued the same matter before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 735 F.3d 1158 (9th Cir. 2013), after obtaining a unanimous jury verdict
  final defense judgment in 2011 on three independent theories at trial-priority, laches,
  unclean h
  s. Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank (C.D. Cal. Case No. CV07-1534-PA).
  In Wyatt Technology Corp. v. Smithson, et al. (C.D. Cal. Case No. CV05-1309 DT), Mr. Van den Bosch represented the defendants in a high-tech intellectual property dispute involving dynamic light scattering technology used to measure the size
  distribution of molecular particles in liquid solutions. Mr. Van den Bosch prevailed on summary judgment
  secured an award of attorneys' fees
  punitive damages for his clients.
  In Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc. v. MJT Consulting Group, 265 F. Supp. 2d 732 (N.D. Tex. 2003), Mr. Van den Bosch successfully represented the plaintiff against a distributor of counterfeit merch
  ise.
  Mr. Van den Bosch prevailed in a federal jury trial on behalf of the plaintiff in Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp., 174 F.3d 1036 (9th Cir. 1999), a seminal case in the area of domain name
  meta tag infringement. The jury awarded actual
  punitive damages,
  the court awarded attorneys' fees.
  Other representations include the successful defense of Disney
  ABC in an infringement suit filed by the owner of comic strip characters, the representation of ESPN in a trademark
  copyright infringement suit involving a reality television program, the representation of Fox in a trademark infringement suit over the name of one of its television networks,
  the representation of The Gator Corporation in multidistrict trademark litigation involving pop-up Internet advertising.
  Global Intellectual Property Portfolio Management: Mr. Van den Bosch manages an experienced trademark team that h
  les the global protection
  enforcement of intellectual property portfolios. He designs long-term strategies for securing
  maintaining maximum protection
  value of intellectual property assets.
  Transactional Experience: Mr. Van den Bosch's experience extends to corporate
  transactional matters, including the negotiation
  preparation of intellectual property
  technology agreements.