Alexis Crawford Douglas

Alexis Crawford Douglas is a Partner with K&L Gates and concentrates her practice in the area of intellectual property. She handles a range of counseling, transactional, and litigation matters related to trademarks, domain names, social media, and copyrights. Alexis provides strategic management of global trademark portfolios for clients ranging from multi-national to start-up companies in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices, consumer products, marketing and advertising, energy, apparel, food and beverage, finance, and technology.

Alexis assists clients with clearance, prosecution, protection, and enforcement of trademarks. Alexis advises clients in trademark and copyright disputes, including representing clients in litigation matters in various federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She counsels clients in dealing with cybersquatting and online infringement matters, including domain name disputes pursuant to the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), and website and social media takedowns involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Alexis also counsels clients on intellectual property issues in complex commercial transactions, and provides strategic advice on licensing, assignment, and consent agreements related to intellectual property.