Mr. Borkowski has spent his career representing major entertainment and technology clients at the intersection of content creation and protection with technology, focusing on the impact of technology on traditional intellectual property rights and business models. Mr. Borkowski represents leading entertainment, video game and software companies and industry associations, as well as technology companies, and has handled the full continuum of intellectual property, technology, and entertainment litigation, as well as anti-piracy and rights enforcement, and counseling. Mr. Borkowski also has extensive expertise in patent, trade secrets, digital copyright and anti-piracy cases for major computer and software companies and semiconductor manufacturers.

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, J.D. 1987 magna cum laude
State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A. 1984 summa cum laude

ADMISSIONS/QUALIFICATIONS

State Bar of California

U.S. District Court for the Central, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth and Federal Circuits
United States Supreme Court Recognized by Legal 500 for Copyright and Litigation Expertise
Southern California Super Lawyer 2004 to present

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

 

Beverly Hills Bar Association (Executive Committee of IP/Internet & New Media Section)

Los Angeles Copyright Society

American Bar Association

PHILANTHROPIC ENDEAVORS

Mr. Borkowski has served on the Board of Directors of WISE Senior Services

ARTICLES, SPEECHES AND SEMINARS

Mr. Borkowski regularly appears at leading entertainment industry and cyberlaw events, having presented or moderated at the Los Angeles Copyright Society, Global Wireless Summit, American Association of Museums Convention, Games & Mobile Forum, Music 2.0 Conference, among other venues and programs. He has also written extensively in the area of Intellectual Property.

2012 Articles:
Changing the Process for Designating DMCA Agents

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS/CLIENTS

Represented record industry in A&M Records, et al. v. Napster, Inc., in District Court and Ninth Circuit.
Represented record industry in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., et al. v. Grokster, Ltd., et al., the first major post-Napster distributed peer-to peer litigation.
Represented record industry in In re Aimster Copyright Litigation (Napster-like peer-to-peer system) and other Internet piracy cases, including suits against venture capitalist investors in infringing peer-to-peer systems and individuals who ran such networks on a local level.
Represented the motion picture industry in copyright and piracy litigation and counseling, including Internet and related litigation.
Represented major motion picture theater chain in a dispute with a production company over the film rental receipts to one of the highest grossing motion pictures of all time.
Represented major record companies in copyright infringement and royalty disputes with recording artists.
Represented major computer and software company on DMCA and related issues.
Represented direct marketing companies in trademark, patent, copyright, and false advertising litigation.
Represented major record company in a trademark dispute involving the title to a popular song.
Represented subsidiary of a Fortune 100 Company through trial and appeal in federal antitrust and false advertising case.
Represented Internet application service provider (acquiree) in suit seeking specific performance by acquirer refusing to perform under a merger agreement.
Represented founder of Internet company in trade secrets litigation against former employer.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Fluent in Polish