Consumer Products and Retail

Bochner PLLC provides legal services to a broad array of consumer goods and retail clients, ranging from housewares, appliances, beauty care, sporting goods, toys, firearms, and outdoor equipment to electronics, consumer technology, media, and digital devices. We support their brands by navigating complex corporate issues, IP management and disputes, and e-commerce challenges. Through our strategic counsel and business experience, we ensure growth, compliance, and robust protection of client innovations, enabling clients to expand strategically and thrive in the dynamic consumer goods landscape.

Corporate Matters and M&A

• Negotiate and structure corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.
• Conduct and oversee due diligence, financing, and investor documentation.
• Advise on corporate governance and compliance, handle capital raises, and manage divestitures and spinoffs.

Intellectual Property Protection

• Serve as primary IP counsel curating and monetizing global portfolios of domestic and international brands.
• Represent clients in patent litigation, post grant proceedings and trademark and copyright disputes in state and federal court and before agencies such as the USPTO, PTAB, TTAB, and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
• Protect clients’ innovations - from freedom-to-operate searches to litigation (e.g. successfully prevent infringement of consumer brands’ products by the world’s largest retailers)

E-commerce Licensing and Rights Protection

• Draft and negotiate platform agreements and craft licensing structures for consumer brands entering into or expanding e-commerce. 
• Protect Amazon sellers’ rights from infringement and against infringement claims and unfair TROs via flat-rate services.
• Advise on cross border sales and logistics and manage advertising and marketing compliance in the digital marketplace.