Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Intellectual Property / Trademark / Advertising & Marketing

Partner

Bart helps clients structure and implement strategies to comply with domestic and international data privacy and security laws and respond to actual and potential security breach incidents. He works with clients to execute innovative social and traditional media promotional programs. He handles copyright, trademark, privacy and new media issues, including advertising, promotion, sweepstakes, marketing, computer software, data use, Internet, employee privacy, cybercrime and entertainment matters.

Bart helps clients identify, protect, commercialize and enforce intellectual property rights. He acts as lead and local counsel in copyright, trademark, counterfeiting and grey market/diversion, false advertising, unfair competition, computer fraud and abuse, and Internet-related litigation, and has obtained numerous ex parte temporary restraining orders and seizure orders to combat piracy. Bart has handled numerous privacy matters before federal and state agencies, including defending the first Internet privacy case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the first database security breach case brought by the New York Attorney General.

Bart assists clients in investigating cybercrime, trademark counterfeiting, criminal copyright infringement and other white collar crime and has successfully pursued civil litigation (including ex parte seizure, temporary restraining orders and asset restraint orders) to combat white collar crime including obtaining substantial settlements and judgments for clients. Bart’s efforts have also resulted in successful federal and state criminal prosecutions in cybercrime (e.g. hacking, phishing, extortion), trademark counterfeiting and felony theft (e.g. kickbacks).

Chicago-Kent College of Law, Adjunct Professor International Trademark Association International Association of Privacy Professionals Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Vice President Approved Mediator for Lanham Act Cases - United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois

LLM, New York University School of Law Trade Regulation JD, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, With honorsWinner, Local Nathan Burkan Award for Best Copyright Law Article BA, University of Chicago Social Sciences