The Gioconda Law Group provides high quality brand protection legal services to companies seeking to design, refine and implement an effective but affordable anti-infringement campaign.  Our attorneys’ clients have included multinational Fortune 500^® corporations with world-famous and iconic brands, as well as newly established and fast-growing companies.

We are actively engaged in the ongoing war against counterfeit merchandise, seeking to protect the intellectual property of our clients who are leaders in dynamic industries such as fashion and luxury goods, footwear, jewelry and watches, electronics, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, sporting goods, fragrances, hospitality and leisure as well as the fine arts, music, software, and video games.

At the Gioconda Law Group, our goal is simple:  to provide our clients with the service and expertise of a large law firm, but at the affordable and competitive rates of a boutique.  Bringing together an experienced team of attorneys, investigators, paralegals, analysts and consultants, we aim to provide our clients with high quality brand protection legal services, while doing so as efficiently as possible.

For more information, or to schedule a discussion about how we may be able to assist you to protect your brands, please contact us by e-mail at info@giocondalaw.com or by phone at 212-786-7549.

In addition, counterfeit sunglasses will typically not have sufficient UV protection, regardless of how they are advertised by the unscrupulous merchant.   These failures will undoubtedly put countless consumers, as well as brand owners, at risk.  The Gioconda Law Group can assist brand owners in the eyewear industry as they protect their brands from the dilution caused by the proliferation of fakes.

Sadly, toys are a favorite target of counterfeiters, and raise extremely serious concerns about public safety.  For example, counterfeit toys skirt U.S. safety standards and frequently use lead-based paint.  Unscrupulous importers of counterfeit toys do immense damage to brands as consumers begin to lose confidence that the harmless toys that their children are playing with are actually dangerous fakes.

The Gioconda Law Group is happy to assist leading brand owners in the toy industry as they combat the scourge of fake toys.

The fast-moving and highly competitive film and television industry is frequently faced with challenging brand protection issues, both domestically and internationally.  Members of the Gioconda Law Group have represented a wide variety of major film finance and movie production companies as well as television networks on intellectual property and brand protection matters.

Additionally, to assist with the variety of threats to intellectual property innovation in the media industries, we have represented and counseled major book and magazine publishers in trademark and copyright litigations.

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