 Erica Pruetz
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Erica Pruetz is a partner and co-founder of Pruetz Law Group LLP. She focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, entertainment and business disputes, drafting and negotiating intellectual property and entertainment agreements, and trademark and copyright prosecution.
Ms. Pruetz has been listed as a “Rising Star” in intellectual property litigation by Southern California Super Lawyers. She has litigated important matters for Abbott Laboratories, K-Swiss, Red Bull, Mattel, Nike, Monsanto, FTD and others. She has been a member of federal civil trial teams for patent and trade dress cases as well as complex arbitrations involving copyrights, design patents and trade secrets. She has experience in every aspect of civil litigation, from drafting pleadings and motions to taking written discovery and depositions and preparing for trial. Ms. Pruetz also prosecuted several criminal trials for the City of Anaheim.
Ms. Pruetz recently helped Roche Molecular win summary judgment for patent invalidity against Stanford University. She also obtained a very favorable settlement for K-Swiss against Payless ShoeSource and a worldwide injunction prohibiting Payless from selling shoes that are confusingly similar to K-Swiss’ trademarks and trade dress.
Ms. Pruetz was also on the team that successfully defended Mattel in a class action suit venued in Madison County, Illinois, over alleged misrepresentations in the sale of limited edition BARBIE dolls. She also successfully represented Nike in a trademark action against Adidas concerning the right to use decorative striping on athletic apparel and footwear, which ended with a dismissal based on Adidas' covenant not to sue Nike over striped apparel and footwear in Nike's U.S. product line.
Ms. Pruetz is the author of "Case Closed on Open Sources” published by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and co-author of "The Sins of Our...Users? Considering Contributory and Vicarious Liability for Trademark and Copyright Infringement," published by Trademark World. She also co-authored an article entitled “Transfer of Development Rights Turns 40”, which was published in the Journal of Planning and Environmental Law.
Prior to founding Pruetz Law Group, Ms. Pruetz was an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP for over 3 years. She graduated from Loyola Law School in 2003, where she served as Articles Editor for the Loyola International & Comparative Law Review. Ms. Pruetz is the author of "Protecting Car Design Internationally: A Comparison of British and American Design Laws," published in the Loyola International & Comparative Law Review.
Ms. Pruetz was a finalist in the Gray’s Inn Moot Court Competition in 2002 in London, England where she also received her Certificate of International Law from the Pace Law School London Law Program.
She earned her BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Ms. Pruetz has lived abroad in Spain and Costa Rica and is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Pruetz is a member of the California, Los Angeles, South Bay and Beverly Hills Bar Associations. |
