GBC Attorneys Participate in All Day IP Symposium
Patrick Burns co-chaired and co-moderated an IP law symposium sponsored by the Intellectual Property...
UGG Wins Case Against 1,549 Online Counterfeiters
Greer, Burns & Crain LTD, representing Deckers Outdoor Corporation, recently obtained a judgment by...
GBC Attorneys, Burns and Guynn, named Leading Lawyers in Illinois
Greer Burns & Crain, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Patrick G. Burns and...
GBC Attorney Defends Jury Victory in Appeals Court
GBC attorney Steve Fallon argued to uphold a successful jury verdict on behalf of...
GBC Attorney Quoted in Law Article
GBC attorney Justin Gaudio was recently quoted in The National Law Journal article entitled...
GBC A Leader in Removing Fraudulent Links from Google
Google recently released statistics regarding links removed based on copyright violations. A copy of...
GBC Colleagues Visit Asia
GBC colleagues recently visited Asia. In Korea, GBC attorney Joe Kim gave a lecture...
GBC Attorneys Attend Annual INTA Meeting
GBC attorneys attended the 134th Annual INTA Meeting, taking place May 5–9 in Washington,...
GBC Shuts Down Over 3,000 Counterfeit Websites, Obtains $686 Million Dollars in Judgments
Greer, Burns & Crain LTD, representing Deckers Outdoor Corporation, recently obtained judgments by a...
GBC attorneys speak at San Francisco Bay area luncheon
James K. Folker and Patrick G. Burns spoke at a luncheon conference attended by...
GBC Volunteers at Law School Mediation Competition
John Pionke of Greer Burns & Crain participated as a judge at the International...
GBC attorneys volunteer time at Moot Court Competition
Greer Burns and Crain partners Amy Ziegler, Paul Juettner, Larry Crain and Patrick Burns...
Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Greer Burns & Crain is pleased to announce that three of its attorneys have...
Favorable trade secret judgment
On May 13, 2011, the Washington State Superior Court entered final judgment for equitable...
Tom Hill joins GBC
In September, 2011, GBC was pleased to welcome Tom Hill to its family. Tom...
Injunction and consent judgment
On August 16, 2011, GBC lawyer Steve Fallon was pleased to have a consent...
Re-exam request granted
On August 30, 2011, the United States Patent Office granted a re-examination request filed...
700 sites taken down in GBC anti-counterfeiting suit
GBC prides itself in its anti-counterfeiting skills and capabilities, and our ability to protect our clients' trademarks from the damage caused by counterfeit merchandise.
Nowhere are our capabilities stronger than on the internet, which has become a haven for fraudulently represented counterfeit goods. GBC regularly gets hundreds of websites selling counterfeit merchandise suspended from domestic website servers, but the international nature of the internet demands an international response, and GBC is ready to protect its clients' interests worldwide.
Recently, GBC attorneys forced the suspension of approximately 700 counterfeit sites on servers in four foreign countries. After much investigation and follow-up, all four foreign servers agreed to “voluntarily” suspend the sites. GBC now also has open lines of communication with these high tier ISPs that will facilitate efforts in getting new sites that move to these servers down as well as any future resellers we might encounter. While some sites will reappear on new servers, losing their "safe haven" will be a major disruption for counterfeiters moving forward.
Roger Greer -- in Memoriam
Greer, Burns & Crain is sad to announce the passing of our Senior Founding Partner and long-time friend Roger D. Greer. Roger passed away in February, 2011. As we recognized long ago, Roger was an exemplary practitioner of intellectual property law -- the heart of his legal practice in Chicago for nearly 40 years -- and an exemplary human being.
Roger received both his bachelors in Electrical Engineering (1964) and his law degree (1967) from the University of Nebraska. His legal achievements include high-level litigation of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition, contract, legal malpractice, RICO and antitrust matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as the expert practice of transactional law including licensing and other transactional matters.