Harnessing the full bench strength of a disputes firm spanning four continents, the intellectual team at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP manages and protects – through high-stakes litigation – the international copyright portfolios of household names in entertainment and tech, such as Vimeo, Spotify, and X (Twitter). The team is headed by an experienced group of partners: in New York, by veteran commercial litigator and international arbitrator Rachel Epstein and Todd Anten, who recently secured a victory for video-hosting website Vimeo against copyright infringement claims brought by major record labels on safe-harbor grounds under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Dan Posner in Los Angeles, who acts on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants at the trial court and appellate levels; and Margret Caruso in Silicon Valley, a specialist in infringement actions concerning design, biochemical, computer, and mechanical patents. Jodie Cheng in San Francisco was promoted to partner January 2024.
Testimonials
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‘Margret Caruso is top of the game.’
Key clients
- Zuru, Inc.
- Vimeo, Inc. & Connected Ventures, LLC
- Spotify USA Inc.
- Snail Games USA Inc. and Wildcard Properties LLC
- NetEase Inc., Hong Kong NetEase Interactive Entertainment Limited, and NetEase Information Technology Corporation
- Big Run Studios Inc. and Skillz Platform Inc.
- TIBCO Software Inc.
- Vizio, Inc.
- Zazzle Inc.
- TeamLab, Inc.
- X Corp. (formerly Twitter)
- BabyBus Co., Ltd
Work highlights
- Representing Spotify USA Inc. in a litigation brought by the owners of the mechanical rights in Eminem’s early catalog – a case that implicates multiple issues of first impression, including the limitation of liability under the Music Modernization Act.
- Represent Snail Games USA Inc. and Wildcard Properties LLC (“SWC”) in a copyright case between video game companies.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Margret Caruso, Rachel Epstein, Todd Anten, Daniel Posner