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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
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2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Erik Kane
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Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Counsel
Career
Erik focuses his practice on litigation, licensing, and counseling in the trademark, copyright, and computer arts spaces. He advises clients on patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, and trade secret litigation before federal courts, state courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). His litigation experience includes a full range of pre-suit diligence, discovery, depositions, motions practice, oral argument, trial, and appellate work, including at the US Supreme Court. He has served as first or second chair in a number of matters.
Erik also prosecutes copyrights and trademarks, as well as software patents, and prepares infringement and invalidity analyses and opinions in the fields of computer science, telecommunications, and Internet-based standards and services.
Erik works closely with clients to draft, structure, and negotiate intellectual property and technology contracts. He handles complex contracts such as joint development agreements, patent and technology license agreements, software and data licensing, SaaS agreements, trademark license agreements, open source software compliance, and IP and technology transfer agreements – often within the context of M&A transactions.
In addition to securing, protecting, and enforcing clients’ rights, Erik routinely counsels clients on other IP related matters including e-commerce, non-fungible tokens (NFT or NFTs), smart contracts, digital certificate technologies, token-based and biometric authentication, ICANN domain name Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) disputes, digital rights management, web services and end user license agreements (EULA), software licensing, compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), website privacy policies, Consumer Product Safety Commission compliance, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) compliance, website disclaimers, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) compliance.
Memberships
Admitted to the District of Columbia and Virginia State Bars
Education
- JD, The George Washington University Law School, with honors, The Public Contract Law Journal, member, Trial Court Board, 2004
- BS, Computer Science, Muhlenberg College, summa cum laude, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Sigma Tau, Pi Sigma Alpha, Muhlenberg Scholar, Anthony J. Marino Award in Computer Science, 2001
- BA, Political Philosophy, Muhlenberg College, summa cum laude, 2001
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
Capable of advising clients across all phases of litigation, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP enjoys a strong grounding in ex parte appeals of examination and inter partes challenges to applications at the TTAB alongside considerable experience in managing opposition and cancellation proceedings. John Gary Maynard and Tyler Maddry spearhead the practice from the firm’s Washington DC office. Operating from the firm’s New York office, Jeremy Boczko is active across federal and administrative courts and Armin Ghiam capitalizes on his background in law, finance, and tech to advise clients across the full IP life cycle, from pre-suit investigations and mediation, to trial proceedings. In Washington DC, seasoned litigator Edward Colbert continues to be entrusted by financial services, entertainment, and consumer goods companies, while Erik C. Kane possesses considerable experience in federal courts, state courts, the ITC, and the TTAB. Other key figures include Richmond’s Stephen Demm and New York’s Jonathan Reichman.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings