Venkat Balasubramani

Venkat Balasubramani

Internet Attorney
Joined on September 10, 2007
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Venkat Balasubramani is the principal of Balasubramani Law. Venkat's practice focuses on intellectual property disputes, including trademark, copyright, and domain name disputes, commercial disputes and appeals.

Licensed in both California and Washington, Venkat began his legal career as an associate in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP. Next Venkat clerked for the Honorable John C. Coughenour, then-Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. After completing his clerkship, Venkat joined the Business and Tax department of Perkins Coie LLP, Washington's largest law firm. Most recently, Venkat spent three years at Newman & Newman, an intellectual property and litigation boutique where he worked on a variety of trademark, copyright and domain name disputes, commercial disputes, and appeals. He also has spent time as in-house counsel at WildTangent, Inc., a Redmond multimedia platform company, where he oversaw the corporation's legal affairs, and negotiated and structured a variety of technology, software, and entertainment related transactions.

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MySpace Wins Big Against Richter?

News rumblings are that MySpace is celebrating its $6mm award against Scott Richter and his entities... Who Won? ...I'm not sure what MySpace asked for (their complaint is probably not a reliable barometer) but the overall tone of the document written by the arbitrator is that Richter's companies shouldn't be held entirely liable for all damages to MySpace. (In fact, the arbitrator's decision takes pains to show both sides of Richter. Some would say this is typical in arbitration.) more»

Virginia Supreme Court Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Spam Statute

Thanks to Prof. Goldman I see that the Virginia Supreme Court issued its opinion in Jaynes, the state-law criminal spam case that has wound its way through the courts there. It affirms the conviction and rejects the various challenges to Virginia's spam statute... As a side note I should say that it's not often one is actually excited to read an order in a case you're not involved with. This is definitely one of those instances where the excitement is palpable... The news reports billed the case as the first felony conviction for sending spam. more»

Defendants Convicted in 1st Criminal CAN-SPAM Trial

In what seems to be the 1st criminal trial under CAN-SPAM, the defendants were convicted in June on a variety of counts. The court rejected defendants' motion for acquittal or new trial. Defendants challenged the conviction in the trial court (where proceedings are ongoing) and the court issued an order rejecting that challenge. It's tough to figure out what's earthshattering about the case. After reading the court's reasonably detailed opinion recounting the evidence, you're left with the feeling that the government did a thorough job in assembling evidence, and defendants engaged in a variety of questionable conduct. Put these two together (and the fact that cooperating defendants testified), and the conviction does not seem surprising. more»

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