Andrew Price has spent the last 14 years at Venable with one focus: he helps clients establish, protect and profit from their brands worldwide.

Ranked as one of the leading trademark prosecution and strategy attorneys in Washington, DC, he is noted for a “fantastic global perspective” (WTR 1000, 2012).

Mr. Price was one of the earliest members of Venable's trademark practice, which is now ranked Tier 1 nationally and in Washington, DC (U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms,” 2011-2012). As a leading member of that group today, he represents clients of all sizes, from startups and celebrities to nonprofits and multinational corporations.

Mr. Price is known for his strategic counsel, client service, and value. He is distinguished by long relationships with clients for whom he manages large portfolios of trademarks worldwide.  Clients recommend him as “an indispensable extension of our in-house legal department” who provides “creative, but well thought out business-minded advice.”

As a group, Mr. Price and his colleagues continue to be ranked among the most active in the United States. This year, the group ranks in the top 10 in U.S. trademark registrations issued (Intellectual Property Today, 2011) and in the top 20 in U.S. trademark applications filed (World Trademark Review, 2011).

As an individual, Mr. Price has a high-volume and comprehensive practice. He focuses on searching, registering, licensing, and enforcing all types of trademarks worldwide (e.g., brand names, logos, slogans, trade dress such as product configuration, and non-traditional marks such as motion marks). His practice includes bringing and defending opposition and cancellation actions before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. He also works closely with the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group to bring and defend trademark-related lawsuits, including preliminary injunction motions, in the United States. Abroad Mr. Price oversees a personal network of top foreign lawyers in a full range of trademark work.

Representative Clients

Mr. Price is strategic trademark counsel to Sony Mobile (formerly Sony Ericsson), one of the world’s largest providers of mobile phones. During his representation, Sony Ericsson was nominated by World Trademark Review as Media & Telecommunications Team of the Year for three years in a row, winning in 2011. For more than five years, he has managed the client’s worldwide trademark portfolio in the role of outside counsel.

He also represents a large number of associations and other nonprofit organizations, working closely with Venable's Nonprofit Organizations Practice Group – one of the country’s leading nonprofit groups.

Mr. Price is responsible for nearly 3,000 active trademark applications and registrations, including portfolios of the above clients plus the following, among others:

• one of the world's largest investment companies;
• one of the world's top dance footwear and apparel companies; and
• the world's largest Internet hosting provider.

Significant Matters

In 2012, Mr. Price won a seven-year battle to register a restaurant chain’s main brand in the European Community, working with local counsel in the EU to settle three oppositions and dismiss a fourth.

In 2011, Mr. Price represented Arianna Huffington in negotiating intellectual property aspects of the sale of The Huffington Post to AOL. He also worked on clearance, registration, licensing and dispute matters involving a number of well-known entertainment figures and brands.

In 2010, Mr. Price worked with Venable's litigation team to defend a client in a preliminary injunction action in U.S. District Court, resulting in a favorable settlement and dismissal of the action. He also worked with European counsel to win an appeal for Sony Ericsson to register a rare motion mark in the European Community – a win that attracted significant attention.

In 2009, Mr. Price managed the searching of over 500 trademarks, many in more than one country. This set a record for the number of trademark searches performed by the Venable Trademark Group in one year for a single client. He also obtained for Sony Ericsson one of the few U.S. registrations for a sound mark.

In 2008, Mr. Price created a worldwide filing strategy that led to favorable worldwide settlement after a party demanded that a Venable client not launch a flagship brand. Today our client may use and register that brand worldwide.

In 2007, Mr. Price registered the well-known nonprofit brand MENSA in a large number of countries through the Madrid Protocol.

In 2005 and 2006, he stopped Asian and European counterfeits of the world's top-selling dance sneaker – without the need for litigation – by registering the trade dress on an expedited basis and recording the registrations with Customs. He also helped a television/movie celebrity name her nonprofit.

In 2003, he filed one of the first U.S.-based applications under the Madrid system for the international registration of marks.

Activities

Mr. Price is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and attends its annual meetings. He is a member of the Hiring Committee for Venable’s Washington, DC office. In 2009, he and a colleague won the firm's Sir Francis Drake Bocce Tournament; and in 2010, they ran the tournament. In his spare time, he is a musician of 25 years.