FIRM OVERVIEW

J. Andrew Coombs, A Professional Corporation, specializes in intellectual property matters including litigation, licensing, and the digital delivery of content, goods and services. We are committed to providing cost effective and innovative solutions in today's digital world. We investigate, analyze, recommend and take appropriate action to enforce our clients' intellectual property rights. Our approach is efficient, comprehensive and thoughtful, designed to serve our clients' needs.

Before opening the firm in 2001, J. Andrew "Andy" Coombs, managed intellectual property protection at The Walt Disney Company on behalf of Disney and its affiliated companies. Andy reorganized Disney's consumer products enforcement strategy by developing training programs, working closely with Disney's licensing and other consumer products companies, while managing outside counsel in the United States and overseas.

Also as Andy's tenure with Disney coincided with the explosive growth of the Internet, Andy and his staff implemented effective policies to combat the emerging problems of enforcing Disney's intellectual properties on the Internet. Some of the infringement issues in which Andy handled daily ranged from domain name issues to fan sites, spam email, auctions, hyperlinking, framing, banner networks, commercial sales, and licensing. Andy was also responsible for motion picture anti-piracy, including video anti-piracy, Internet streaming and downloading of content files, optical disk piracy, signal theft and unauthorized performance.

Andy is originally from Canada where he graduated at the top of his class at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After law school, Andy interned at the Law Reform Commission of Canada and then clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada. As a promising legal analyst, Andy was recruited to work at the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP upon completion of his clerkship. He worked as a commercial litigator with substantial exposure to intellectual property disputes. Among the matters he handled was an early "John Doe" restraining order for the University of Southern California and news correspondent Arthur Kent's action against NBC for defamation and wrongful termination, which was ultimately described in Kent's Risk and Redemption.

As an expert in his field, Andy also worked with the Motion Picture Association of America on the formulation of an Internet enforcement strategy, the prosecution of test litigation and the reorganization of anti-piracy programs in rapidly developing markets. Andy was also a founding member of the Piracy Working Group of the Interactive Digital Software Association (entertainment software) and worked with the Recording Industry Association of America (music) on their anti-piracy efforts. Due to the progressive nature of his practice, Andy is regularly invited to speak at a variety of intellectual property related forums.