CBLH | Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP - Intellectual Property and Business Law Firm with offices in Wilmington, Delaware; Washington, DC; Los Angeles, California

Practice Areas

Education

  • Temple University School of Law (J.D. 1989)
  • University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1986)
    Major: English and Astrophysics

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 1989
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1990
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1990
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1995
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2002

Professional Experience

  • Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP

  • Panitch Schwarze Jacobs & Nadel, P.C.

  • Ferrill and Logan

  • REMCO Worldservices Books/Slumberland Products, Inc.

  • Ivory Tower Comics/Amazing Comics

Certifications & Specialities

  • Who's Who Legal USA: Trademarks, 2006

Attorney Profile

Michael L. Lovitz

Partner
Wells Fargo Center
333 South Grand Avenue
Suite 2300
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Tel: (213) 787-2518
Fax: (213) 687-0498

Michael L. Lovitz is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. He is also a member of the firm's Hiring Committee. He represents clients in a variety of areas including copyrights, trademarks, copyright and trademark litigation and licensing and transactional matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Michael was an associate at another law firm in Philadelphia. He also served as vice-president and general counsel of REMCO Worldservice Books and Slumberland Products, Inc., and founded and co-owned Ivory Tower/Amazing Comics.

He has been an instructor and lecturer at various seminars, conventions and conferences on trademark, copyright, Internet, computer and entertainment law issues sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI), the American Law Institute – American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals.

He has also established the "Comic Book Law School" lecture series, an extremely popular series of seminars given each year in San Diego at Pro Con and at ComicCon International (San Diego). In addition, Michael is the author of numerous articles on copyright law.

Michael is a member of the Philadelphia Licensing Executives Society and the International Trademark Association. In 2006, Michael was recognized in Who's Who Legal USA for his work in Trademarks. He has also been recognized by Best Lawyers in America as a recommended intellectual property law practitioner in Delaware. He is also a past chair of the board of directors for the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association.

Professional Associations

  • American Bar Association
  • International Trademark Association
  • Licensing Executives Society
  • Member - Executive Committee (Secretary)
  • National Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Philadelphia Bar Association
  • Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

Legal Publications

  • Lovitz, Michael. "It's All Geek to Me." The Philadelphia Lawyer Fall 2005.  
  • Lovitz, Michael. "Let the Author Beware - A Look at Work Made for Hire in the 21st Century." Delaware Law Weekly Jun. 2, 2004.  
  • Lovitz, Michael. "The Struggle for Captain America." The Philadelphia Lawyer Summer 2003.
  • Lovitz, Michael. "Surfing Near the Edge: Unfair Use in Cyberspace." The Philadelphia Lawyer Summer 2002.  
  • Lovitz, Michael. The Trademark and Copyright Book. Sirius Entertainment, 2001.
  • Lovitz, Michael. "Cat and Mouse: Josie and the Pussycats Creator Challenges Copyright Ownership." The Philadelphia Lawyer Summer 2001.  
  • Lovitz, Michael. "The Implications of Hyperlaw for Secondary Publisher." Newsletter of the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services, Feb. 1998.
  • Lovitz, Michael. "It's All Berned Up." Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 3.1 (1989).