Notable Representations 

Close-Up International, Inc. v. St. Petersburg Publishing House, (2d Cir. 2012). Chris led a team of LSKS attorneys in defending, both at trial and on appeal, a U.S.-based distributor of DVDs in a copyright infringement case brought by a licensee of Russian copyright holders concerning a series of classic Soviet-era films. Following a four-day bench trial, the court found in favor of Chris’ client on all counts. The Second Circuit later affirmed the verdict on appeal.

Psihoyos v. John Wiley & Sons, (2d Cir. 2012). Chris and a team of LSKS attorneys obtained a summary judgment ruling that dramatically reduced the size of the copyright infringement case pleaded against LSKS’s textbook publishing client for allegedly infringing a variety of plaintiff’s photographs, and Chris then was lead trial counsel in the ensuing seven-day jury trial. That trial resulted in verdicts for both the publisher and the plaintiff, and the jury awarded the plaintiff substantially less in damages than he had sought.

National Pork Board v. Supreme Lobster & Seafood (U.S. Trademark Trial & Appeal Board 2010).  Chris represented National Pork Board, the Congressionally enacted commodity promotion board for pork, in an opposition based on the Board’s famous mark THE OTHER WHITE MEAT®.  In a decision in which the TTAB relied upon the Federal Trademark Anti-Dilution Act for only the second time in the history of the statute, the TTAB found that the client’s mark was likely to be diluted by the applicant’s proposed mark “The Other Red Meat” and denied the trademark application.

People v. Bryant, 94 P.3d 624 (Colo. 2004), and Associated Press v. District Court, 542 U.S. 1301 (2004). Chris worked with colleagues Thomas Kelley and Steven Zansberg representing a consortium of news media in connection with numerous First Amendment access issues arising during the rape prosecution of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant in Eagle, Colorado.