Meaghan H. Kent
Meaghan regularly advises companies developing or deploying AI systems and provides strategic counseling on AI policy development, data licensing, generative model training, and compliance with emerging AI legislation and regulations.
She frequently advises online content providers on intermediary liability and user-generated content issues, including the protections offered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Communications Decency Act, and the Take It Down Act, and on the legal and reputational risks associated with linking, sharing, distributing, embedding, moderating, and aggregating online content.
A skilled advocate, Meaghan represents clients in a wide array of IP litigation, including complex copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and related disputes in federal court. She has extensive experience in bench and jury trials and appeals, and in arbitration and administrative proceedings. She also assists clients with online brand protection, cyberpiracy, and domain name enforcement, including UDRP proceedings, keyword advertising, and publicity matters involving social media.
Related Practices
Experience
Representative Matters
- Pursued trademark counterfeit litigation on behalf of a large defense contractor, obtaining a TRO, preliminary injunction, and ultimately a permanent injunction, along with monetary relief. Collaborated with the DOJ to raid the counterfeiter and halt the sale of counterfeit military components
- Defended a large multinational travel site conglomerate against claims of copyright infringement related to use of content online and in digital media
- Defended a multinational software and media company against claims of copyright infringement related to generative artificial intelligence
- Pursued claims of trademark infringement on behalf of a multinational toy and entertainment company
- Defended a multinational auto manufacturer and international entertainment company against claims of copyright infringement related to graffiti art
- Defended a large American clothing retailer against claims of copyright infringement for use of content in social media
Insights
Credentials
Education
- J.D. cum laude University of California, Hastings College of the Law 2005
- Articles editor, Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal
- Judicial intern, the Honorable Paul R. Haerle, California Court of Appeal
- Judicial intern, the Honorable Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- B.S. Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of California at Los Angeles 2002
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Member, International Trademark Association (INTA)
- Enforcement Committee, 2025 – present
- Legislation and Regulation Committee, 2022 – 2025
- Anticounterfeiting Committee, 2020 – 2022
- Member, The Copyright Society of the USA
- Member, American Bar Association
Recognition
- Legal 500 US
- Recommended, Intellectual Property: Copyright, 2024
- Recommended, Intellectual Property: Trade secrets, 2023
- Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, Intellectual Property, Washington, DC, 2014 – 2015