Todd D. Williams

Todd Williams is an associate in the Intellectual Property Section of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP.

Mr. Williams specializes in trademark and copyright law, and has also worked on matters of patent law, trade secrets, right of publicity, defamation, and product disparagement.

Mr. Williams has represented clients in a wide variety of general trademark and copyright matters, including: prosecuting applications to register trademarks and service marks; maintaining and enforcing existing trademarks and service marks; representing clients in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; drafting consent and settlement agreements; and litigating trademark and copyright disputes. Mr. Williams has also counseled clients on several specific trademark and copyright issues, including: the sovereign immunity implications of suing state entities in federal court for trademark or copyright infringement; the law of trademark abandonment as applied to musical groups; and the intersection of First Amendment and trademark law in art and music.

Mr. Williams also has experience in Internet-related trademark and copyright counseling. For example, Mr. Williams has advised clients regarding the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act, regarding questions of Internet-based personal jurisdiction, and regarding domain name prosecutions under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and the ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.

Mr. Williams received his B.A. degree in History, with honors, from the University of Florida in 2002. While at Florida, Mr. Williams completed a summer study program at Cambridge University, England, and was a 2001 Anderson Scholar with Highest Distinction, a member of the Florida Honors Program, and an officer in the History Honor Society. Mr. Williams received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2005, where he was a member of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and the Harvard Law Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law.

Mr. Williams is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.