Francelina Perdomo Klukosky brings nearly 20 years of experience with legal issues involving brand management, intellectual property, media, and a wide range of entertainment and technology transactions. Fran counsels clients across the lifecycle of brand development and protection, including global trademark and copyright strategy, prosecution, clearance, enforcement, portfolio management, and rights commercialization. She advises leading brands, creators, emerging companies, and established enterprises on safeguarding and maximizing their IP assets in the United States and internationally.
Fran’s practice spans the worlds of entertainment, media, advertising, and technology, with experience that includes video games and esports; live and recorded music; digital media and streaming; influencer and social-media advertising; publishing; and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). She regularly guides clients through complex issues involving brand identity, advertising substantiation, and marketing compliance.
Fran also advises clients in connection with the intellectual property and information technology aspects of commercial transactions. Drawing on her legal experience and her personal passion for technology, innovation, and the arts, Fran approaches her work thoroughly as in-house counsel working "out of the house."
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Fran leverages her experience as a litigator to negotiate, draft, and secure agreements in the entertainment industry, including talent, endorsement, development, publishing, and licensing agreements for scripted and non-scripted programming, podcasts, webinars, and documentaries. She also advises entertainment companies and digital advertisers in negotiating complex product licensing, brand integration, and placement agreements.
Fran is a fluent Spanish speaker and a lawyer with a legal education from universities in the United States, France and the Dominican Republic. Fran has experience advising clients on IP asset protection, complex licensing and other transactions involving the sale and distribution of goods across the borders of the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
To help clients effectively protect, monetize and enforce their IP assets, she drafts opinion letters, contracts, and develops strategies to minimize the risk of litigation in all these areas. Her trademark work also includes prosecution and enforcement, portfolio management and strategy, licensing, co-branding and joint ventures, as well as brand ambassador, influencer, and endorsement contracts.
If a dispute leads to litigation, Fran has extensive experience handling complex intellectual property and commercial claims involving intellectual property. Fran also handles matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).