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Mr.
Sarabia has twenty years of experience in consumer licensing
(revenue, standards, performance and breaches), trademarks,
copyrights, and the apparel business. He can testify, identify
important issues and suggest discovery in his areas of expertise.
His areas of expertise include secondary meaning, trade dress,
similarity of marks, intellectual property due diligence, trademark
and copyright infringement, theft of trademarks, and intellectual
property analysis and valuation. He can evaluate licensee and
licensor performance under the standards of the industry. In
the apparel business he can review performance of a wide array
of agreements to determine if it is consistent with the standards
of the industry. Click
here to see a short video of Mr. Sarabia.
An outline of his areas of expertise:
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International
and Domestic Licensing: revenue projections, forecasts,
standards, performance, breach, selection of licensees;
Intellectual property: analysis, due diligence, investigations
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Copyright
Infringement: substantial similarity and originality
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Intellectual
Property Valuation, Management and Development
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Trademarks
and Service Marks: international and foreign registration,
secondary meaning, infringement, dilution, searches, investigations,
due diligence, theft, trade dress, counterfeiting, litigation,
standards of practice for attorneys
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The
Apparel and Fashion Businesses: performance of contracts,
manufacturing (domestic and international), import, export,
sales, distribution, compliance, factory conditions, apparel
copyrights, substantial similarity of apparel lines, theft
and protection of designs
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Private
Investigation: Mr. Sarabia is a licensed private investigator.
He has done a variety of investigations over 20 years, including
evidence and asset locations and evaluations and intellectual
property matters. These investigations have been in connection
with non-litigated matters, civil litigation and criminal
matters. In addition to performing investigations, he has
directed and managed investigations by other investigators
and personnel in over a dozen different countries and many
different states. He has managed hundreds of investigations
of related to civil and criminal matters and tens of thousands
of non-litigated matters. He has trained other investigators,
attorneys, police and U.S. Customs agents in intellectual
property investigations. He is qualified to testify about
the generally accepted standards of conduct in the private
investigative business. He is also qualified to testify about the generally accepted standards of supervision of private investigators, for example, whether the companies which have hired an investigator have been negligent in their supervision.
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