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International
We represent many companies doing business internationally, based in the U.S. and abroad. We have extensive experience in international joint ventures and technology licensing.
ELM lawyers who practice international law:
Representative matters:
- Our client, a bio-technology company with a rich portfolio of patents and proprietary know-how, developed an efficient, low-cost water purification system. A number of multinational consumer products companies were interested in licensing the technology and our client came to terms with one such company. We were extensively involved in intellectual property disclosure and secrecy issues, and in negotiating the terms of a global exclusive license in a specified field. We steered the client through a number of complex legal, international tax, intellectual property, and contractual issues before a definitive agreement was finally signed. The client's technology will be the foundation for a significant new stream of revenue for the multinational company, and the completed license agreement represents a major technological and business success for the client company.
- We represented a major international relief and development organization in defending against a defamation lawsuit brought by a former employee in the Republic of Georgia. We participated in various legal proceedings with local counsel in Tbilisi, Georgia, and were successful in getting the Georgian court to set aside a million dollar default judgment. We then participated in the trial which resulted in a complete victory for and exoneration of our client. We also successfully persuaded the client organization's insurance carrier to pay for our fees, including the travel costs attendant to several trips to the Republic of Georgia, so that the client had minimal out of pocket expenses in defending what would otherwise have been a very expensive lawsuit.
- Our client worked at home raising her two young sons. She and her husband, a U.S. Air Force technician, moved the family to Germany for a temporary assignment. While there, the couple decided to separate and that our client and the boys would move to Washington to be with her family. But the husband had his own plans. He filed for divorce and custody of the boys in California state court. When the court ruled for our client, her husband sought a second chance. He asked the federal court in Seattle to send the boys back to Germany. We defended our client against the husband's petition under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. We prevailed at trial and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the result. The client's sons now live with our client in the U.S.
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