White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Christopher J. Glancy

Practice Experience

Mr. Glancy concentrates in intellectual property litigation involving trademark, copyright and patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, right of publicity, false advertising, trademark dilution, unfair competition, and breach of license. He has extensive experience in the use of expert witnesses at trial, and their preclusion pretrial, including survey, patent law and damages experts. He also has experience drafting and negotiating complex intellectual property license agreements.

Mr. Glancy counsels clients on privacy and data protection issues including Safe Harbor regulations, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, internet privacy policies, and data security breach notification. He has also litigated claims against individuals who post defamatory content anonymously online, as well as claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

He has represented clients in the publishing, television, ecommerce, sports, telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries. He also represents a religious organization with respect to First Amendment and other issues, and advises a foreign sovereign on copyright and publicity matters.

Mr. Glancy regularly counsels clients on a variety of issues relating to the internet, including domain name disputes, data scraping, phishing schemes, keyword advertising, and online infringement.

Litigation representations include:

Representation of the Russian television network NTV in a trademark infringement action against a former U.S. licensee of the network. After we moved for a preliminary injunction, the case promptly settled on favorable terms.
Representation of Discovery Communications in a trademark infringement action concerning its famous trademark THE LEARNING CHANNEL. After we precluded plaintiff’s survey expert, the case promptly settled on favorable terms.
Representation of ESPN in a trademark action in federal court in Washington concerning the network’s TV series, Playmakers. The district court granted our motion for summary judgment of noninfringement, which was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit.
Representation of ESPN in a trademark action concerning its action sports competition, the X GAMES. After we moved for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction, the case promptly settled on favorable terms.
Representation of ASCAP, the performing rights organization, in rate proceedings against Yahoo, AOL and RealNetworks concerning the value of music online.
Representation of a major sports league in a copyright infringement action.
Representation of a major pharmaceutical company in a trademark infringement action.
Representation of The Thomson Corporation in an action for declaratory judgment that its medication guide PDR MONTHLY PRESCRIBING GUIDE did not infringe a competitor’s mark. We successfully defeated the competitor’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
Representation of Sandoz in an ANDA patent litigation concerning its generic drug Ribavirin. The court adopted our claim construction and granted summary judgment of noninfringement.
Representation of Verizon and Verizon Wireless in separate, multi-party federal patent infringement actions pending in federal court in Pennsylvania concerning certain call-blocking technology.
Representation of a major pharmaceutical company in a complex trade secret misappropriation case before the International Trade Commission.
Assisting in the representation of Syngenta Seeds in a patent infringement action concerning its patents on genetically modified corn. We successfully defeated the defendants’ claims of inequitable conduct.
Assisting in the representation of Novo Nordisk in patent infringement and false advertising litigation involving an insulin pen system.
Successful representation of numerous clients in domain name disputes before the World Intellectual Property Organization and National Arbitration Forum.
Representation of CMP Media in a copyright action brought by a contributing author.
Successful representation of iPayment Inc. in an adversary proceeding brought by ITSV in federal bankruptcy court in California involving multiple allegations of fraud and related claims. The court granted summary judgment in our client’s favor on all claims, and that decision was affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Education
JD, New York University School of Law, cum laude, Executive Editor, Annual Survey of American Law, 1995
BA, Rutgers University, 1985

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
New York State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
International Trademark Association Editor, The Trademark Reporter, 2004

Publications
Co-author, "The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 Clarification and Expansion of the Fair Use Exception", MLRC Media Law Letter, October 31 2006
"Searching for Clarity: Trademark Disputes Over Keyword Advertising Have Returned Confusing Results," IP Law & Business, January 2006
"End of the Domain Goldrush? An Overview of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act," Internet Law & Business, January 2000

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States