Anthony V. Lupo

Practice Areas

Anthony Lupo, a partner at Arent Fox and a member of the executive committee, co-chairs the entertainment/intellectual property group of the firm. Anthony was named as the number one intellectual property attorney by the Washington Business Journal and Chambers USA ranked him as one of the few Tier 1 lawyers for Intellectual Property. In this regard, they described Anthony as the “go to” Intellectual Property lawyer on the East Coast for television and movie studios including representing Pixar Animation Studios, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and Disney. Although Anthony primarily works in the area of entertainment law and intellectual property law, he also acts as general counsel for a number of high-end Italian fashion and luxury goods companies, including handling corporate, real estate, employment, and re-organization. He has a very diverse practice but specializes in copyright, entertainment, trademark, advertising and e-commerce law, and has significant experience in representing movie studios, computer and gaming companies and television stations. His practice also covers advertising rights of publicity, counterfeiting, sweepstakes and contests, online gaming, product recall and CPSC, international market entry, gray-market goods, distance learning, technology transfer and licensing. Anthony is also on the board of the Smithsonian National Zoo and Discovery Channel Global Education Fund.

Client Work

Anthony’s entertainment and media expertise includes representing major movie studios and a number of media/television companies in all aspects of their entertainment business, including clearances of rights, content agreements, production agreements, music and media distribution agreements, international market entry and protection and litigation of intellectual property rights.

Anthony has a great deal of experience in enforcing and protecting postmortem publicity rights, including representing the estate of Albert Einstein, the Wright Brothers and Steve McQueen.

Anthony’s intellectual property and e-commerce experience includes representing automotive-related companies, software, hardware and electronic companies as well as trade associations in their efforts to exploit and protect their intellectual property and technology on a global basis. Anthony also negotiates and drafts agreements regarding intellectual property rights, multimedia transactions, technology transfer, co-branding revenue sharing, procurement, product and software development, distribution, outsourcing, system integration, Internet home page development, e-commerce sites, corporate e-mail policies, hyperlinks, electronic data interchange, delivery of distance education, online auction site liability and advertising.

Anthony’s international intellectual property experience includes assisting the Indonesian government in revising its intellectual property laws to comply with GATT; advising the Saudi Arabian government on international intellectual property issues in its effort to join the WTO; advising the Egyptian government on revising its intellectual property laws; advising the Vietnamese government on implementing the US-Vietnam Bilateral Copyright Agreement; lobbying USTR, the Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) and the Copyright Office regarding intellectual property and counterfeiting issues; preparing international licensing and technology transfer agreements; and counseling clients on how to protect their intellectual property in foreign markets.

Anthony’s advertising experience includes assisting electronics, gaming and media companies with clearance of advertising claims, stealth advertising, defending against ambush advertising and challenging or defending comparative advertising claims.

Publications, Presentations and Recognitions

Anthony has been named a Top Intellectual Property Attorney for 2005 by the Washington Business Journal. He has also been named as one of the leading technology and Internet attorneys by a number of publications, including PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Counsel. He often appears on CourtTV and National Public Radio as an entertainment and Internet legal expert and has been frequently quoted by newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Industry Standard and The Los Angeles Times. He has also testified before Congress on the issue of e-commerce.

Anthony’s numerous speaking engagements include:

• “Advertising on Social Network Sites and Other Media,” Personal Care Products Conference (Vancouver)
• “PCI-DSS: Legal Issues Related to Data Privacy and Security,” Hospitality Law Seminar
• “Entry to the U.S. for Matters of Brazilian Products and Services,”  Rio de Janeiro Association of Businesses and Property Exports Conference
• “User Generated Content – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls and Maximizing Business Benefits,” IBA Conference (Madrid)
• “Gray-Market Goods and Diversion of Product,” ASIPI/INTA Conference (Argentina)
• “The DMCA Dilemma,” Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas)
• “IP Online – Being Aware of Trademark and Copyright Boundaries in Advertising,” Advertising and Marketing Law Seminar (New York, NY)
• E-commerce and IPO issues, Internet World Conference (Hong Kong, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Spain, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago)
• “Rights and Royalties for Music on the Internet,” Billboard Magazine
•  “International E-Commerce Law and IPO Issues,” COMDEX (Brazil)
• “Music on the Internet,” Practising Law Institute
• “Protecting IP on the Web,” International E-Commerce, ACI (New York, San Francisco)
• “Establishing an International E-Commerce Presence,” International Business Transactions (New York)
• “Trademarks and the Internet,” Intellectual Property Owners Conference
• “Distance Education and E-Commerce Law,” World Bank
• “On-Line Service Providers Liability Issues in the Health Care Field,” National Managed Health Care Congress
• “Trademark Law,” Automotive Chemical Manufacturers Council
• “Internet Law,” National University Automotive Public Relations Council
• “Technology and the Law,” American Society of Association Executives

Anthony’s most recent publication:

• “New Security Standards Available to Merchants to Prevent IP Theft,” Journal of Payment Systems Law; February 2006

Bar and Court Admissions

District of Columbia Bar
Virginia Bar

Education

Georgetown University School of Law, Masters of Law, 1993
Howard University School of Law, JD (cum laude), 1990
George Mason University, BA, 1987