Lynne Graybeal is a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Group and
Trademark & Copyright practices. Her practice focuses on trademark and
copyright law, Internet and social media issues, licensing and intellectual
property-related transactions, and arts and entertainment law. Lynne is
currently the co-chair of the firm's Arts, Entertainment & Sports industry
group and was a co-chair of the Trademark & Copyright practice, from 2000 -
2012.
Lynne has been assisting clients with selecting, protecting,
enforcing and licensing their brands worldwide for more than 25 years. Lynne has
extensive U.S. and international trademark prosecution experience and trademark
and domain name enforcement experience, including dispute resolution and actions
before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and under WIPO's Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Lynne also assists companies with
online and social media IP issues including DMCA take-down requests, website
Terms of Use, and website policy compliance issues. She chairs the Web 2.0
Working Group of the Online Use Subcommittee of the INTA Internet Committee and
has been an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law.
Lynne also helps clients with copyright clearance, registration and
licensing. Her IP transactional experience includes software license and
development agreements, multimedia and Web-based content license agreements,
content acquisition agreements, trademark license agreements, rights transfer
agreements, book publishing agreements, literary rights agreements, advertising
agency and talent agreements, and confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.
Lynne's clients include cutting edge online and traditional companies of
all sizes across a wide range of industries, including financial institutions,
software publishers and distributors, hardware and electronics manufacturers,
telecommunications services and equipment providers, interactive games
publishers, medical device manufacturers, hotel and resort owners, food and
beverage retailers, personal care product manufacturers, pharmaceutical
companies, and consumer products and services retailers.
Lynne also
works with arts and entertainment clients, including authors, artists,
musicians, composers and museums, and has represented corporate clients, game
developers, publishers, professional sports teams, a public television station,
and individuals in entertainment-related matters involving publishing, literary
rights, publicity rights, art, theatre, music, film and television. Lynne
currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the
Northwest's largest ballet company, as well as on the Board of Directors of the
Seattle Shakespeare Company.
Lynne focuses on developing long-term
relationships with clients and is very successful in integrating into a client's
internal intellectual property team. She works with a client to determine how
best to meet a client's short- and long-term trademark, copyright and other IP
needs and helps the client develop strategies to work within its IP budget and
track its IP-related expenses.