Faculty Profile: Grady Garrison

Grady Garrison, of counsel in the Firm's Memphis office, concentrates his practice in the areas of intellectual property law and franchise law. Mr. Garrison has experience in trademark, copyright, franchising, antitrust and trade regulation matters and licensing, litigation and transactional issues related thereto. Specific areas of experience include selection, clearance, registration and enforcement of pharmaceutical marks; registration of U.S. Assigned Names at FDA; negotiation and licensing of intellectual property from drug discovery company to pharmaceutical companies; filing of IND applications at FDA and surrender of same to remove FDA jurisdiction; drafting of commercial supply agreements, turn-key manufacturing agreements, product collaboration agreements and joint venture agreements with pharmaceutical companies; and acquisition and termination of licenses and surrender of intellectual property.

Representative Cases

 

Represented a global logistics company in federal district court against the world's largest supplier of bar code scanning technology in a case involving claims of breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and technology, conversion and breach of fiduciary duty. Resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement.

Represented a producer of cereal and convenience foods in a trademark infringement action against a global oil and gas company. Resulted in a favorable settlement.

Represents the world's largest cheerleading and dance company in trademark, copyright and proprietary information litigation matters.

 

 

Presenter -Copyright Infringement in the Cloud" ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Roundtable Series (February 17, 2016)

Presenter -"After Lexmark, Is International Patent Exhaustion on the Horizon?" ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Roundtable Series (December 17, 2015)

Presenter -"Three Upcoming Patent Law Decisions Expected from the Supreme Court" ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Roundtable Series (April 16, 2015)

Presenter -"The 3D Revolution" ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Roundtable Series (February 26, 2015)

Presenter - "The Reverberations from the Latest Digital Media Copyright Enforcement - An Analysis of the Aereo and Getty Images Cases" ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Roundtable Series (December 11, 2014)

Presenter - "Selected Hot Topics in Intellectual Property Law 2014" ABA Intellectual Property Litigation Roundtable Series (October 7, 2014)

Co-presenter - "A Review of Significant Intellectual Property Developments in 2012" University of Mississippi's annual "CLE by the Hour" seminar (December 4, 2012)

Co-author - "Key Issues in IP Law: Protecting the Client" Understanding Your Client's IP Needs, part of the Inside the Minds series, Aspatore Books (2008)

Author - "Providing Value in an IP Transaction" Maximizing Intellectual Property Value, part of the Inside the Minds series, Aspatore Books (2007)

 

 

Member - Board of Directors of the Memphis Rock 'N Soul Museum

Member - Founding Board of Directors of Promise Academy, Inc.

Member - International Bar Association

Member - American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section; Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Section; Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Litigation Subcommittee; Roundtable Moderator, Litigation Subcommittee on IP Litigation; Forum Committee on Franchising)

Member - Tennessee Bar Association

Member - Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association (Board of Governors, 1996 - 98)

Member - Memphis Bar Association

Member - Memphis Area Franchise Association (President, 1988 - 1998)

AVr PreeminentT Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Listed in The Best Lawyers in Americar since 1995 in the areas of Franchise Law, Trademark Law and Intellectual Property Law 

Named the Best Lawyers' 2014 Memphis Trademark Law "Lawyer of the Year"

Named the Best Lawyers' 2013 Memphis Litigation - Intellectual Property and 2013 Memphis Trademark Law "Lawyer of the Year"

Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Intellectual Property, since 2006

Named to Business Tennessee magazine's "150 Best Lawyers" in the area of intellectual property law (2009)

Adjunct Professor and Founder - Franchise Law, University of Memphis School of Law

Adjunct Professor - Copyright and Licensing, University of Memphis School of Music

 

 

Tennessee, 1972

U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

 

 

New York University, LL.M. in Trade Regulation, 1977

Memphis State University, J.D., 1972

Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1967,

Phi Eta Sigma,

Phi Beta Kappa