Intellectual Property Lawyers Named to Maryland Super Lawyers 2025

Intellectual property lawyers Jim Astrachan, Donna Thomas, and Kaitlin Corey have been selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of Maryland Super Lawyers. Kaitlin appears in the Rising Stars section.

All are partners at Goodell DeVries and experienced intellectual property lawyers. They have been honored in Maryland Super Lawyers for consecutive years.

Jim Astrachan - Intellectual Property Lawyer

Jim represents clients in intellectual property law and litigation, mediation, and business, regulatory, and transactional matters. He is a frequent author and speaker and has taught IP at Maryland’s two law schools for more than two decades.

 

Donna Thomas - Baltimore Intellectual Property Lawyer

Donna represents clients in commercial and intellectual property transactions and disputes. She handles everything from multi-million dollar sales, mergers and acquisitions for publicly-traded corporations to business agreements, business counseling, advertising clearance and the clearance, registration, licensing, protection and defense of copyrights and trademarks for individuals and businesses.

 

Kaitlin represents clients in negotiating business transactions and agreements, litigation involving copyright, trademark and unfair competition matters, and clearance, protection, registration and licensing of trademarks and copyrights. In addition, Kaitlin handles tax controversy matters.

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The Perils of Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement

The Perils of Secondary Liability for Copyright InfringementVicarious and contributory liability are terms well-known to every tort lawyer and law student.  They should also be familiar to business owners and managers.

The legal theories of vicarious and contributory liability are well-established in copyright law and are employed to impose liability for another’s direct infringement where a third party, such as a distributor or landlord, contributed to the infringement by encouraging or providing the means to infringe, or where the party had the means to stop the infringement and benefited financially from it.

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