Gaming
Today's casino gaming industry is comprised of numerous types of entities, from commercial and Native American casino operators, gaming equipment manufacturers, peripheral suppliers, regulatory, and standard-setting organizations. Participants in each of these industry segments, both in the US and internationally, have relied over the past two decades upon Howard & Howard's team of experienced gaming attorneys to assist them in the varied legal matters involved in the industry.
In addition to providing counsel on typical business issues, our team offers a number of services which take advantage of our specialized experience in gaming-related intellectual property and regulatory matters.
Intellectual Property
The gaming industry is one of the most prolific in terms of both intellectual property filings, and in disputes resulting from the those filings. Our firm is among the most well-versed and experienced in the industry in assisting clients with all such aspects of IP. These services include:
- Acquisition, sale or licensing of technology
- Advertising
- Confidentiality issues
- Copyrights-domestic and international
- Joint-venture/co-development agreements
- Distribution agreements
- E-commerce/high technology
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Litigation and alternative dispute resolution
- Patent prosecution-domestic and international
- Trade Secret Law
- Trademarks-domestic and international
Regulatory
All recognized gaming jurisdictions have specific legal and regulatory requirements as a precondition for a business to enter that particular gaming market. The Gaming Law Section of Howard & Howard:
- Provides guidance to both gaming and non-gaming entities through the complex gaming application and investigative process
- Engages regulatory agencies to facilitate a seamless administrative process for obtaining licensing approvals
- Assists clients in obtaining gaming device, system and associated equipment approvals
- Represents and counsels clients in their ongoing efforts to maintain compliance with gaming regulatory requirements
- Represents clients in disciplinary proceedings
The gaming attorneys at Howard & Howard have counseled and consulted with clients in most every gaming jurisdiction around the world:
Regardless of the location or size of your company, or the complexity of the issues it faces, we deliver high-quality, on-time work at a lower price than most law firms providing comparable services to the gaming industry.
We're proud of the broad range of work we've done on behalf of our clients:
- Filed hundreds of gaming related trademark and patent applications, both internationally and throughout the world.
- Represented the Gaming Standards Association (the standards-setting organization in the industry) for the past decade.
- Assisted entities from virtually every segment of the gaming industry, from operators, to manufacturers, to peripheral suppliers, on both transactional and litigation aspects of domestic and international matters including IP, regulatory issues, contracts, financing, antitrust compliance, and labor issues.
Howard & Howard's attorneys approach every project with the following goals in mind:
- Facilitate client objectives.
- Find creative solutions.
- Produce top quality work, quickly.
- Help clients achieve their next level of success with maximum profitability.
