Hope Hamilton

Client Results

• Lead attorney for major American multinational e-commerce technology company, with responsibility for managing all national and international trademark enforcement matters.

• Member of team responsible for trademark enforcement on behalf of two of the world's largest Food & Beverage companies.

• Lead attorney for contentious matters for an American Fortune 500 company specializing in distribution and value added services relating to electronic components and computer products.

• Prior to joining Holland & Hart, second chaired successful trial against Quiksilver on behalf of World Marketing (owners of the VISITOR clothing brand), in which a unanimous jury found that Quiksilver had willfully infringed on World Marketing’s trademark and awarded $3.625 million in damages. The case involved novel issues of law  concerning royalty damages awards in the absence of a prior licensing relationship. QS Wholesale, Inc. v. World Marketing, Inc., Case No. 8:12-cv-00451 (C.D. Cal.). 

• Helped lead the team that obtained a complete dismissal of a lawsuit in which an agent of the Russian Federation sought to claw back the famous Stolichnaya vodka brand owned by our client SPI. In August 2013, the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court’s 2011 decision, holding that the Russian Federation lacked standing to assert trademark infringement and related remedial claims under the Lanham Act, all of which require that only the purported “owner” of the infringed marks (the Russian Federation) may assert such claims. Case involved novel issues of standing as an “assign” or “legal representative.” Federal Treasury Enterprises Sojuzplodoimport, et al. v. Spirits International B.V., et al., No. 11-4109, 726 F. 3d. 62 (2d Cir. 2013).

• Helped lead the team that obtained successful resolution of false advertising claims brought against SPI by competitor concerning labeling and advertising of Stolichnaya vodka. Russian Standard Vodka (9USA), Inc. v. Allied Domecq Spirits & Wine USA, Inc., No 06 Civ, 9915 (RJS) (S.D.N.Y.)

• Successfully represented Spirits International B.V. in appeal to the Federal Circuit concerning registration of the trademark Moskovskaya, In re Spirits International, 563 F. 3d 1347 (Fed. Cir. 2009), which redefined the application of the doctrine of foreign equivalents in assessing marks that are allegedly primarily geographically misdescriptive.