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Robert J. Roby has a broad ranging practice and has represented start-up companies as well as well-established multi-national companies. Robb has significant experience advising clients in all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, trade secrets, rights of publicity, and false advertising. He frequently advises clients regarding strategically structuring their intellectual property estates and works to create an integrated and balanced portfolio that effectively combines the overlapping protections of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Robb frequently advises clients regarding offensive and defensive competitive strategies, prelitigation strategies, infringement studies, invalidity and noninfringement opinions, trademark selection and searches, monitoring and enforcement of patent and trademark rights, strategic transactions and complex patent and trademark prosecution. He assists clients with implementing programs to identify, evaluate and protect all forms of intellectual property. He frequently prepares agreements on behalf of clients and advises clients regarding contractual obligations.
With a degree and experience in mechanical engineering, Robb represents clients across a diverse range of technologies. Robb advises beauty, luxury goods, fashion, and apparel labels as well as individual fashion designers regarding trademarks, copyrights, design rights, and patents. Robb's medical device experience includes advising early-stage companies, such as Spiration, Inc. (acquired by Olympus Medical Systems Corporation) and EndiCOR Medical, Inc. (acquired by ev3 Inc.), as well as more established companies, such as Pro-Dex, Inc., and multi-national corporations, including Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited. He also has an extensive background in aerospace, automotive and power sport technologies. Handling market clearance and protection of aircraft hardware, including water system and door latching components as well as fasteners used in the construction of aircraft, he has represented suppliers to the aircraft industry. In the automotive space, he has represented original equipment manufacturers as well as aftermarket and component level manufacturing entities.
Throughout law school, Robb clerked for a New York City patent law firm. He was a summer associate with Knobbe Martens in 1996, joined the firm in 1997 and became a partner in 2003.
Robert J. Robyは、広範な分野の経験を有し、新興企業および多国籍企業の代理人を務めてきました。特許、商標、ドメイン名、著作権、企業秘密、広告権、虚偽広告などの知的財産のあらゆる側面について、長年にわたりクライアントを支援してきました。また、知的財産を戦略的に構築し、特許、商標、著作権、企業秘密などの重複保護を効果的に取りまとめ、バランスのとれた包括的なポートフォリオを構築する方法について頻繁に助言を行っています。
彼は、攻撃的戦略、防御的戦略、訴訟前の戦略、侵害の調査、無効性および非侵害性に関する見解、商標の選択と認可手続き、特許権および商標権の監視と施行、戦略的トランザクションと複雑な特許および商標の起訴について、クライアントに助言を頻繁に行っています。そのほかに、あらゆる形式の知的財産を識別、評価、保護するプログラムの導入についてもクライアントを支援しています。クライアントの代理人としてしばしば同意書を作成し、契約義務に関する助言をクライアントに提供しています。
機械工学に深い知識と経験を有する彼は、さまざまな技術系クライアントの代理人を務めています。ビューティー、ラグジュアリー製品、ファッション、アパレルのレーベルのデザイナーや、個人のファッションデザイナーにも、商標、著作権、意匠権、特許について助言を提供しています。医療機器業界では、Spiration, Inc.（Olympus Medical Systems Corporationが買収）やEndiCOR Medical, Inc.（ev3 Inc.が買収）のような新興企業のほか、Pro-Dex, Inc.のような歴史のある企業、Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limitedのような多国籍企業まで、幅広く経験を積んでいます。このほか、航空宇宙、自動車、モータースポーツ技術でも豊富な経験を有しています。航空機業界のサプライヤーの代理人として、航空機用金属部品（機体の構築に使用される水系統システム、扉のラッチコンポーネント、ファスナーなど）の販売許可の取得と保護に取り組みました。自動車産業においては、OEM製品の製造会社、補修・改造用部品製造会社の代理人を務めてきました。
法律大学院で学んでいる間、ニューヨークの特許法律事務所に勤務しました。1996年の夏、Knobbe Martensと共にアソシエートとして勤務した後、1997年に当社に入社し、2003年に共同経営者となりました。
学歴
- ニューヨーク大学（法務博士号、1997年）
- オハイオ大学（機械工学、1994年）、Tau Beta Pi – 工学優等生協会、Golden Key International 優等生協会 – 国家生徒代表、Mortar Board National College Senior優等生協会、学部を最優秀の成績で卒業
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Named to IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists (2023) which “identifies the individuals who are leading the way in the development and implementation of strategies that maximize the value of IP portfolios”
- Recognized as a Patent and Trademark Star in Managing IP's "IP Stars" Guide for his outstanding intellectual property legal work from 2013 to 2023.
Author, "Companies Should Not Fake It Until They Make It," New York Law Journal (August 27, 2023)
Author, "Intellectual Property in Virtual Worlds," New York Law Journal (March 27, 2023)
Author, "Prioritized Examination - Patently Clear?," Medical Plastics News North America (Oct/Nov/Dec 2021)
Author, "Environmental Advertising for Your Brand - Three Things You Need to Know," The New York Law Journal (August 2021)
Podcast: Knobbe Martens Attorneys Discuss Counterfeiting and IP Theft, Footwear Insight Extra (February 2021)
Author, "The Evolution Begins In Six Circuits: Disgorgement Without Willfulness," The New York Law Journal (August 2020)
Co-author, Social Media: The New Storefront for Fashion, The New York Law Journal (August 2017)
Teaming Up to Solidify Client Relationships, New York Law Journal's Law Firm Management Special Report, May 2017.
Sonos Forward-Publishes Patents: Strategic Upside, Limited Downside, JD Supra Perspectives, March 2014.
Co-author, Protect Your Business by Protecting Your Intellectual Property, SEMA News, January 2010, at 110.
Knock-Offs, Counterfeits and Copies – What’s the Difference, IP Perspectives, Summer 2006
4 Tips for Dealing with Counterfeiters, IP Perspectives, Summer 2006
Counterfeits & Copies, Part 2 – The Legal Route, Modified Magazine, February 2006, at 86.
Speeches & Seminars
The Latest Tools, Tips and Tricks to Counter Counterfeits and Knock-Offs, Panelist at 2012 SEMA Show, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 31, 2012).
How to Manage the Costs of Protecting Your Intellectual Property, Remarks at 2010 SEMA Show, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 4, 2010).
Do-It-Yourself Intellectual Property Protection, Address at 2009 SEMA Show Education Days, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 2, 2009).
Patent, Trademarks, and Copyrights: Ask the Experts, Remarks at 2009 SEMA Show Education Days, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 2, 2009).
Patent, Trademarks, and Copyrights: Ask the Experts, Remarks at 2009 SEMA Webinar (October 22, 2009).
Safeguard Your Company Against Illegal Knockoffs and Counterfeits, Remarks at 2008 SEMA Show Education Days, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 3, 2008).
Bang for the Buck: Extracting Maximum Value from Intellectual Property in an Economic Crisis, Address to Southern California Chapter of Association of Corporate Counsel, Irvine, California and Torrance, California (April 15, 2009).
Developing Strategies to Protect Your Intellectual Property, Remarks at SEMA Webinar (April 17, 2008).
Reissue and Reexamination: Post-Issuance Strategies, Address, Irvine, California (March 15, 2007).
Automotive Aftermarket Seminar, Place Roadblocks and Speedbumps in the Paths of Potential Counterfeiters and Copyists, Pomona, California (September 29, 2006)