Paul C Van Slyke

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Hoover Slovacek LLP

Experience: 54 years

Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Entertainment & Sports Law and Communications & Internet Law

Texas, 5th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court

Super Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America, for IP litigation, Trademark Law and Copyright Law and 4 others

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Awards 6

Experience 54y

Online & Web 6

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I use my 30+ years of legal experience and judgement to provide strategies aligned with business objectivies. My experience includes traditional trademark law, branding, label compliance, online trademarks and anticounterfeiting. I use my experience in consumer goods, retail, banking, energy, manufacturing and personal care products to provide clients with strategies and solutions aligned with their business objectives. I handle for them ltitigation, disputes, contracts, transactions, trademark registrations and clearance of the right to use brand names and company names. I use my six years experience as global head of the trademark, copyright and branding practice for a leading international law firm to counsel and assist clients in protecting and enforcing their brands in the USA and abroad. I also use this experience to review pre-release advertising campaigns and counsel musicians, entertainers and record labels in contract and trademark. In additon, I handle domain name disputes to recover domain name ownership in UDRP arbitrations. I represent personal care dealers and distributors in cosmetic labeling, FDA compliance and distributor/import agreements.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Texas

State Bar of Texas
ID Number: 20457000
Since 1968

5th Circuit

Since 2009

U.S. Supreme Court

Since 1972

Professional Experience

2014 - Current

Hoover Slovacek LLP

Senior Counsel

Current Law firm

2014 - 2014

Van Slyke Law Firm

Managing Counsel

1988 - 2014

Locke Liddell & Sapp (later Locke Lord)

Partner

1988 - 1997

Pravel Gambrell

Partner in law firm

1969 - 1987

Arnold White & Durkee

Attorney

Private practice of Intellectual Property Law and related ltigation.

1964 - 1969

Mobil Oil Corporation

Patent Agent and later Patent Counsel

While I was in law school, I worked in the Office of Patent Counsel assigned to the Field Research Laboratory. My responsibility was to render opinions on the patentability of new technologies and prepare and prosecute patent applications.

Education

1964 - 1969

Southern Methodist University

J.D. (1969) | Law

1960 - 1964

University of Texas - Austin

B.S. (1964) | Electrical Engineering

Awards

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Super Lawyer

Thompson Reuters

year - Paul C Van Slyke

Best Lawyers in America, for IP litigation, Trademark Law and Copyright Law

Best Lawyers in America

Leader in the Field of Trademark Law

World Trademark Review 1000

year - Paul C Van Slyke

Superb Attorney 10.0 of 10.0

AVVO, Inc.

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Fellow, Top 1/3 of 1% of Texas attorneys are invited to become Fellows

Texas Bar Foundation

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AV Preimminent Rating 5.0 of 5.0 peer review rating for proficiency and ethics

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Contacts

823 Congress Ave. Suite 620 Austin TX 78701 Toll-Free: (855) 552-8238

5051 Westheimer Suite 1200 Galleria Tower II Houston TX 77056 Toll-Free: (855) 552-8238 Telephone: (713) 735-4129

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Experience: 54 years

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Phone: (855) 552-8238

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Trademarks

Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration

Entertainment & Sports Law

Communications & Internet Law

Internet Law, Media & Advertising, Telecommunications Law

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

Certifications

Technology Mediator

CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution

Domain Name Arbitrator

World Intellectual Property Organization

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