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Chris Gatewood helps clients resolve business disputes, and represents
and counsels clients in intellectual property and entertainment
matters. Chris meets clients' needs in counseling, litigation,
negotiation, strategy, and alternative dispute resolution on a wide
variety of issues, with focus on the areas of copyrights, trademarks,
entertainment law, software licensing, domain name disputes, and
franchising.
Examples of recent matters with which Chris has assisted clients include:
- Software licensing and copyright disputes involving commercial software programs.
- Litigation and trial of marketing services contract dispute between pharmaceutical firms.
- Drafting, review, and counseling regarding software licenses and web development agreements.
- Contract negotiation and counseling regarding management, agency, licensing, distribution, and record label agreements for music industry clients.
- Litigation of case between two professional recruiting firms with respect to covenants not to compete and alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.
- Internet domain name disputes, including both successful defense and successful prosecution of domain name registrants.
- Franchising law matters including conflicts between terminated franchise owner and national franchisor.
- Regular appellate practice includes appeals to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Chris also maintains an active pro bono practice, including
representation of immigrant juveniles in the United States immigration
process and in the local juvenile courts. He has spoken on several
occasions to local and regional groups of artists and creative
professionals regarding intellectual property issues, including
programs presented by Virginia Lawyers for the Arts and by C3, the
Creative Change Center. He is the legal columnist for the quarterly
business publication WorkMagazine.
Chris graduated from Wake Forest University, magna cum laude, and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia in
2000. Prior to joining Hirschler Fleischer in 2004, he worked in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Venable LLP
and in the Richmond office of Hunton & Williams LLP.
While in law school, Chris was the editor in chief of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology and briefed and argued an
appeal of a criminal procedure matter before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Chris is admitted to practice in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eastern District of
Virginia, the Western District of Virginia, the District of Maryland, and the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District
of Virginia.
Chris was named to Virginia Business Magazine's 2007 List
of "Legal Elite."
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