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Gregory B. Collins has experience prosecuting and defending all aspects of business and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Collins represents regional and national corporations, Arizona-based businesses and individuals in breach of contract actions, business tort suits, and trademark, copyright and patent infringement matters. He has represented clients in all phases of the litigation process, including as lead counsel at trial and arbitration.

Mr. Collins’ intellectual property practice includes trademark, copyright and patent infringement actions in federal district court. He has also represented businesses in Trademark Trials and Appeals Board proceedings and participated in International Trade Commission investigations. Mr. Collins has obtained injunctive and permanent relief in trademark infringement and unfair competition actions and successfully defended and prosecuted patent infringement and false advertising claims.

Mr. Collins represents clients in broad array of business disputes. He has successfully litigated complex commercial litigation matters and real-estate disputes and has prosecuted and defended all types of Internet law claims. He recently published an article in the Creighton Law Review, Of “Purposes Not Prohibited,” New Federal Rule of Evidence 408(b), Co-Author, 40 CREIGHTON L. REV. 679 (June 2007). He has presented continuing legal education on obtaining injunctive relief in both state and federal court.

Before joining Kercsmar & Feltus, Mr. Collins practiced commercial and intellectual property litigation at Snell & Wilmer, LLP, the largest law firm in the Southwest.

Representative Cases and Clients

• Represented a major producer of cosmetic botanical ingredients in a variety of intellectual property matters.
• Represented a national condominium management company in a suit against a competitor asserting trademark infringement, unfair competition and cybersquating claims.
• Successfully defended a group of credit unions in multi-jurisdictional patent infringement action.
• Represented a regional bank in its claims against a competitor asserting trademark infringement and unfair competition claims.
• Successfully defended a national bank against plaintiffs seeking to enforce sham arbitration awards.
• Represented a software design company in copyright infringement and unfair competition suits.
• Represented an audio visual company in its claims against former employees asserting unfair competition and trade secret claims.
• Defended a publicly traded electronics company in patent infringement and breach of contract actions.
• Represented a Fortune 500 electronics company against trademark infringement and breach of contract claims.
• Defended a surgical practice against claims related to the practice’s buy-out of a former physician member.
• Represented a local inventor in patent infringement suit against one of the world’s largest manufactures of home improvement tools.
• Successfully defended a national health care service provider in a class action suit brought by customers who alleged that their personal information had been lost.
• Represented a business in its Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims seeking to identify the anonymous author of copyrighted material posted on a website.
• Represented an Arizona based business in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings.
• Successfully defended anonymous authors of blogspace against trademark infringement and dilution claims brought by national hotel chain.
• Represented a real-estate investor in his efforts to challenge covenants and restrictions.
• Obtained preliminary and permanent injunctive relief on behalf of national cell phone company in its claims against competitors alleging contributory trademark infringement and unfair competition.
• Defended a limited liability company that purchased land at public auction in a suit challenging the validity of the auction.
• Represented a group of physicians in their efforts to enforce rights under their limited liability company’s operating agreement.
• Successfully represented individual investors in arbitration against one of the largest condominium developments in Maricopa County.
• Represented Arizona based business in its defense of Lanham Act false advertising claims brought by competitor.
• Defended a publicly traded company in multi-jurisdictional litigation against a patent troll.
• Successfully obtained temporary and permanent injunctions in favor of a Fortune 500 company barring competitors from misappropriating trademarks.
• Represented a multi-state banking institution in its lawsuits against mortgage brokers across the United States arising from fraud in mortgage applications.
• Represented Arizona hospitality and real estate investment corporations in derivative action brought by minority shareholder related to alleged corporate freeze-out and misappropriation of corporate funds.
• Represented a leading dietary supplement company in its claims against a competitor for false advertising under the Lanham Act
• Represented a national hotel chain on claims against its franchisees
• Represented an owner of an internet website company on his claims against his former partners
• Obtained judgment on patent infringement claims in favor of patent holder
• Defended a group of real-estate investors against claims asserting that the investors were personally liable on a five million loan
• Successfully defended a group of tenants in common against claims brought by their fellow tenants in common
• Obtained judgment in favor of an App developer for breach of contract against a customer that had retained the developer to create an industry specific App
• Successfully represented an individual on defamation claims against an internet blog
• Successfully represented a not-for profit organization in its efforts to obtain public documents from a government agency
• Represented a software company in its claims against a competitor for false advertising under the Lanham Act
• Successfully defended efforts to obtain an injunction for alleged trademark and copyright infringement made by seller of sophisticated test equipment against an Arizona-based seller of competing equipment
• Defended an Arizona based company in a copyright infringement suit relating to the resale of allegedly grey-market goods

Professional Experience

Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., September 2004 to August 2007
United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Office of Senator Jon Kyl
Legal Intern, Summer 2003

Education

University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2004)
        Writer, Arizona Law Review
University of Arizona (B.A., 2001)

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of Arizona
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the District of Arizona

Community Involvement

In addition to his commercial and intellectual property practice, Mr. Collins has devoted considerable time to representing clients in pro bono matters. His pro bono practice includes representation of plaintiffs in prisoner rights litigation and mortgage fraud litigation.

Mr. Collins is a member of Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce, the Maricopa Bar Association’s Technology & Intellectual Property division and the Arizona Bar Association’s Committees on Intellectual Property and Trial Practice.

Personal

Mr. Collins is from Tucson, Arizona. He met his wife, a native Phoenician, while attending law school at the University of Arizona. Mr. Collins is an Arizona Cardinals season ticket holder and an avid football fan.