Meaghan H. Kent
She frequently advises on issues specific to online content providers, including the legal protections offered by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Communications Decency Act for user-generated content, as well as liability concerns related to linking, sharing, distributing, embedding, moderating, and aggregating content.
Meaghan represents clients in a wide array of IP litigation, including complex copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and other related disputes in federal court. She has years of experience in bench and jury trials as well as appeals. Meaghan is also experienced in representing clients before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), the International Trade Commission (ITC), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the National Arbitration Forum.
Over the last several years, Meaghan has cultivated a robust artificial intelligence (AI) practice, with a focus on generative AI and the development, use, and license of datasets. She has comprehensive knowledge of AI policies and generative AI tool development and use and counsels regarding pending legislation, regulations, and AI policy development. She also counsels clients through online disputes involving cyberpiracy and domain name matters, regularly pursuing UDRP matters, and advising on keyword advertising, meta tagging, click fraud issues, and publicity matters involving social media, while providing large-scale brand enforcement and protection.
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, Honorable Paul R. Haerle, California Court of Appeal
- Judicial intern, 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)
- Legislation and Regulation Committee, 2022 – present
- Anticounterfeiting Committee, 2020 – 2022
- Member, The Copyright Society
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
- Member, Intellectual Property Section, District of Columbia Bar
- Founding member, DC/MD/VA Chapter, Women in Toys (WiT)
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