ROME - Key Persons
Mr. Keyes is an associate at Rome LLP. His areas of expertise include commercial litigation, intellectual property law, and entertainment law. Mr. Keyes has represented a variety of clients in the entertainment and media industries, including film producers, financiers, record labels, recording artists, news publishers, and public figures. Mr. Keyes also has extensive experience in intellectual property practice, having represented iconic brands in trademark prosecution and enforcement.
Representative matters include obtaining dismissal of a defamation case against a news publisher through an anti-SLAPP motion; defending a legacy recording artist at mediation, resulting in the plaintiffs settling for one tenth of their original demand; representing a business seller in a seven-figure asset purchase deal; and providing sample clearance services for a Billboard-charting single. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Keyes worked in the recording and music publishing industries, where he represented platinum-selling artists and Grammy nominees.
Mr. Keyes is admitted to practice law in the State of California, and in the Central District of California. When he is not practicing law, he can usually be found attending a show at one of Los Angeles' many concert venues. He has been told that he makes an exceptionally good Old-Fashioned.
Founder and principal of Rome LLP, A.P.C., Eugene Rome is an accomplished litigator and transactional attorney representing clients in both the United States and abroad in the areas of intellectual property law, payment processing matters, and domain name disputes. He also possesses a wealth of experience in entertainment, business, and catastrophic injury matters.
Mr. Rome actively represents clients in matters involving Internet disputes as well as financial and electronic payment processing. An expert in payment processing disputes, Mr. Rome has an in-depth understanding of the Association Rules and industry practices, has routinely established jurisdiction in U.S. courts over foreign processing entities, and secured tens of millions in settlements and judgments for his payment processing clients. Mr. Rome has also litigated cutting-edge domain name and cryptocurrency matters, many involving issues of first impression. Mr. Rome is routinely requested to present on payment processing issues and developments as well as domain name disputes at industry events and conferences.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Rome has handled a multitude of various matters, including securities, banking and pharmaceutical class-actions, and various complicated personal injury matters.
Mr. Rome also serves as outside counsel to domain name registrars, web service providers, lead generator companies, and other Internet businesses. His domain name practice includes representing clients in intellectual property, compliance issues, and other legal proceedings involving:
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)
Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) and analogous state law provisions
In addition to his work in Internet and business law, Mr. Rome and his colleagues at Rome LLP have developed a niche in cryptocurrency and blockchain matters. Mr. Rome and his colleagues at Rome LLP litigate cases on behalf of aggrieved investors in cryptocurrency scams as well as disputes between parties to novel blockchain technologies, such as blockchain domains.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Rome has handled a multitude of various matters, including securities, banking and pharmaceutical class-actions, various complicated personal injury matters, including catastrophic multi-party injury claims, insurance coverage and bad faith claims, and entertainment disputes for clients including, Tab Hunter, Sarah Brightman, Jay Rifkin, and others.
Mr. Rome is admitted to practice in California, both in federal and state courts. He is fluent in Russian and speaks conversational French.
Mr. Spataro's business and litigation experience has focused on trademarks, trade names, domain names, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights, and other intellectual property, licensing and other contracts, publishing, advertising, technology, software and related trades. Based in Los Angeles, California, he practices before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and in Federal and State Courts from San Francisco to San Diego.