Ryan P. Bisaillon

Ryan Bisaillon’s practice focuses on complex litigation involving intellectual property and related disputes, including copyrights, trademarks, false advertising, unfair competition, trade secrets, licensing disputes and consumer class actions.

Mr. Bisaillon has experience at every stage of the litigation life cycle, including pre-litigation counseling, pleadings and motion practice, fact and expert discovery, and trial. He also advises clients in connection with enforcement issues, risk analyses, consumer surveys, and intellectual property matters in connection with corporate transactions. In addition, he regularly counsels clients on evolving legal issues in the intellectual property sector.

Significant representations include:

• Universal Alloy Corporation as a member of the trial team that secured a complete defense verdict in a trade secret misappropriation case brought by Arconic Corp. (f/k/a Alcoa) concerning aluminum alloy parts
• Papaya Gaming, Ltd. in a pending federal litigation against Skillz Platform, Inc. concerning false advertising claims arising out of the companies’ skill-based mobile video gaming platforms
• WCM Investment Management, LLC in pursuing and successfully resolving a trademark infringement matter involving another investment management entity
• The National Football League and the Las Vegas Raiders in pursuing and successfully resolving a trademark infringement matter involving a Las Vegas-area law firm’s advertisements
• Cellectar Biosciences Inc. in successfully resolving a dispute against former personnel concerning diversion of Cellectar’s cancer-targeting biotechnology
• Pfizer affiliate Array BioPharma, Inc. in a New York state court action asserting that AstraZeneca AB breached a license agreement and underpaid Array in connection with the sublicensing of intellectual property rights in compounds for treatment of neurofibromatosis
• a variety of intellectual property enforcement matters on behalf of (i) the National Football League and its member clubs, (ii) Major League Soccer, and (iii) the Coalition to Advance the Protection of Sports Logos (CAPS)
• numerous professional sports organizations and teams with regard to ticketing terms for live events

Mr. Bisaillon also has an active pro bono practice, including a matter in which he successfully obtained permanent injunctive relief for a nonprofit educational organization in a federal litigation concerning the misuse of the organization’s copyrighted audiovisual content.