Julia Huston is well known for achieving outstanding results for clients in high-stakes intellectual property and business litigation cases. She is a Partner in Foley Hoag LLP’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Departments, Chair of the firm’s Trademark, Copyright and Unfair Competition practice group, and Co-Chair of the Advertising and Marketing practice group.
Julia provides a full range of services to clients in connection with their valuable intellectual property, including litigation, strategic transactions, portfolio development, and counseling. Julia’s experience extends to:
In the litigation arena, Julia acts as lead counsel in cases before the federal courts, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and in international domain name dispute resolution proceedings. Our clients entrust Julia with enforcing and defending their famous trademarks, bet-the-company technology, and other key intellectual property assets. A forceful and creative courtroom advocate, Julia has obtained multimillion-dollar judgments and settlements in numerous cases.
In the context of corporate transactions, Julia leads due diligence teams that thoroughly investigate, and assist clients in assessing the value of, intellectual property being acquired. Julia also provides comprehensive advice concerning protection of intellectual property rights in licensing and assignment transactions. Julia’s experience extends to the commercialization of personal names and rights of publicity, as well as more traditional trademarks, copyrights and patents.
In addition to litigation and transactional work, clients regularly rely on Julia’s counsel in developing long-term strategies for their IP portfolios. Julia counsels clients in the fields of pharmaceutical products, health care, consumer products, electronics, software and hardware, insurance, financial services, energy, education, and entertainment. Julia’s extensive experience in litigation and dispute resolution enables her to build her clients’ IP portfolios strategically with an eye toward enforcement and defense for maximum advantage in the marketplace.
Julia is a co-editor of Foley Hoag’s Trademark & Copyright Law blog, for which she writes about current legal developments and offers practical insight on how companies and individuals can best protect their brands, domains and copyrights.
A frequent author and lecturer on intellectual property topics, Julia’s articles have appeared in World Trademark Review, Managing Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Today, and other prominent publications. She has publicly commented on high-profile intellectual property cases for Channel 4 WBZ-TV, Channel 7 WHDH, Fox 25 News and major metropolitan newspapers.
Julia holds leadership positions in several civic, professional and charitable organizations. She is particularly active in the Boston Bar Association and the International Trademark Association.
