New York
As an experienced intellectual property and products liability litigator, Lisa Simpson’s practice centers around consumers and their interaction with products and creative works, whether those products sit on a consumer shelf, reside on a computer as code, float through the airwaves as digital files or builds brands by developing consumer goodwill.
With expertise in the areas of trademark, copyright, false advertising and products liability, she focuses on companies within the technology, consumer goods and pharmaceutical industries.
Lisa has been recognized as one of the "Top 250 Women in IP" by Managing Intellectual
Property and has received accolades from American Lawyer, Benchmark Litigation, The Legal 500 USA and New York Times Magazine
with World
Trademark Review 1000 noting that Lisa “marries a rich comprehension of IP
law with a gift for connecting with people, making full use of each advantage
in the courtroom.”
Intellectual Property
Lisa handles a variety of high-profile trademark and copyright matters. Lisa’s copyright experience includes some of the leading
copyright cases of the past decade: she represents Oracle in its litigation
with Google over the Java APIs, represented DISH Networks, LCC in its copyright
litigation with the broadcast networks over various features offered by DISH’s
Hopper DVR, including AutoHop and Sling and served as counsel to Supap
Kirtsaeng before the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of the copyright first
sale doctrine’s applicability to goods manufactured abroad.
Lisa’s trademark litigation
has spanned a variety of courts and industries:
she successfully defended trademark infringement claims in the Northern
District of California on behalf of Sony over its popular “Gran Turismo” racing
video game and scored two separate wins in the Southern District of New York
and then in the Second Circuit on behalf of client Sanei in trademark
litigation brought by fashion designer Jill Stuart. Lisa also successful established secondary
meaning and secured a preliminary injunction for the New York City Triathlon in
S.D.N.Y.
Products Liability and Consumer Class Action
Lisa serves as national and trial counsel to Johnson & Johnson in cases asserting claims arising from the use of its talcum powder products, including claims of mesothelioma and ovarian cancer. She also represented Wyeth and Dow Agrosciences in a variety of complex products liability and consumer class action litigations. Lisa served as national counsel in hundreds of product liability matters concerning injuries allegedly associated with childhood vaccines, handled litigations involving the labeling and advertising of Advil, and obtained the dismissal, prior to class certification, of a consumer class action in a matter concerning the calcium supplement Caltrate.
Current Pro Bono Representation
Lisa serves as trial counsel for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, securing an important trial win invalidating as unconstitutional a statewide law that jeopardized access to safe and legal abortion services in Kentucky.
Lisa also has served in a variety of firm management roles, including on the Firm’s Management Committee, as Hiring Partner for the New York office as well as Partner-in-Charge of Firmwide Campus Recruiting and as a member of the Professional Development Committee.
