Dominique R. Shelton

Dominique R. Shelton

Partner

T: (310) 860-8705
F: (310) 860-3805
dshelton@wildman.com

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Practice Areas:

Advertising, Marketing & Promotions
Antitrust
Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Litigation
Media & Entertainment

Education:

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1991, Notes Editor, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics

Brown University, B.A., French Civilization and International Relations, 1988




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Dominique R. Shelton

Dominique Shelton is a partner in the Intellectual Property department of Wildman Harrold’s Los Angeles office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation with a particular concentration in the areas of unfair competition, intellectual property and antitrust. Dominique has represented Fortune 500 companies, start up ventures, and privately held companies in litigation involving advertising, technology, entertainment and software industries. Her representative clients include original equipment manufacturers, television and film studios, cable channels, technology companies, semiconductor distributors, and major arts institutions in Los Angeles. Dominique has a broad range of experience in technology and intellectual property issues particularly in the areas of digital distribution and new media. She advises advertisers, product manufacturers, and cable studios regarding privacy, regulatory issues arising from Web 2.0 marketing, behavorial advertising, social networking websites, user-generated content, and digital advertising.


Representative Experience:

  • Advises advertisers, product manufacturers, and cable studios regarding intellectual property, privacy, and regulatory issues arising from Web 2.0, social networking websites, user-generated content, and digital advertising. 
  • Represented a web to on-online video-on-demand channel in intellectual property licensing litigation in California and Massachusetts. 
  • Successfully defended a manufacturers of inkjet refill kits against a competitor's claims for recovery based upon theories of trademark infringement, trade dress and dilution. 
  • Defended a medical device manufacturer in patent revocation lawsuit, quickly preventing revocation of the patent that was at the core of the client's business. 
  • Defended a major Los Angeles-based art museum in trademark infringement and unfair competition case relating to claims under the Federal Lanham Act, California state trademark law, and California's Unfair Business Practices Act, resulting in no out-of-pocket payments by the client. 
  • Represented a major Los Angeles-based contemporary arts museum in intellectual property matters. 
  • Represented the fourth largest distributor of electronic components in trademark infringement lawsuit against a competitor that was using the client's mark in print and online. Dominique successfully obtained a final injunction order in the Central District Court preventing the use of the mark, and revoked the web domain name under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution administrative procedures. 
  • Successful defense of privately held company in unfair competition and antitrust action based upon distribution and sale of paper products. 
  • Represented a private venture capital fund in recovering damages from radio station owners in Dayton, Ohio, for breach of promissory notes, guarantees and security instruments. Successfully obtained summary judgment, and ruling for receiver after the defendant filed for bankruptcy. 
  • Successfully obtained on behalf of client/defendant a judgment to stay the California action filed by the plaintiff, on forum non conveniens grounds where a first-filed action had been pending in New York (but was dismissed due to the second-filed action in California).

Publications And Presentations:

  • Co-Author, "A Game Changer," Los Angeles Daily Journal, November 5, 2008.
  • Keynote Address, "Web 2.0-Evolving Legal Issues Raised by User-Generated Content, Social Networking and Digital Advertising," 2008 Computer & Technology Law Institute, October 24, 2008.

  • Speaker, "Web 2.0 Social Networking, User-Generated Content and Digital Advertising: Evolving Legal Issues," USC 50th Anniversary Institute on Entertainment Law and Business Your Television is Ringing: Entertainment in a Digital World, October 18, 2008.

  • Speaker, "Digital CrossRoads in Entertainment," Georgetown Entertainment Media Alliance October 1, 2008.

  • Co-Author, "California Sweepstakes Bill Signed Into Law By Governor Schwarzenegger," Client Bulletin, October 2008.
  • Author, "EU, US Grapple With Online Counterfeit Goods" Law 360, October 1, 2008.
  • Author, "Will Congress Squelch Behavorial Advertising?" E-Commerce Times, August 27, 2008.
  • Author, "Online Behavioral Advertising—Key To Internet Monetization Or Privacy Probes?" Privacy & Information Law Report, July/August 2008.
  • Speaker, "At Swords Point" Net Neutrality, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Antitrust Section, Los Angeles, California, June 30, 2008.
  • Speaker, "Ensuring Regulatory Compliance While Administering Behavioral Marketing Programs," American Conference Institute, Advertisers' and Marketers' Regulatory Summit, Washington D.C., June 16-18, 2008.
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0 and Corporate Ethics: We Are in A Brave New World Now, But Where Do We Go From Here?" Data Governance Annual Conference, San Francisco California, June 3, 2008.
  • Author, "Fashion Victims," Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 9, 2008.
  • Co-Author, "Web 2.0: Legal Issues You Need to Know Before Marketing With User Generated Content," The Legal Corner, March 2008.
  • Author, "Web 2.0: Legal Issues You Need to Know Before Marketing With User Generated Content," Los Angeles Business Journal, March 2008. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Fox Network in-house legal department, Century City, California, January 31, 2008. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Motion Picture Association in-house legal department, January 30, 2008. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Disney/ABC in-house legal department, Burbank, California, January 28, 2008. 
  • Speaker, Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel and Kaye Scholer LLP, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Los Angeles, California, December 14, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Social Networking and User-Generated Content," iHollywood Forums, Hollywood, California, December 12, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Fox Television and Fox Interactive Media in-house legal departments,  Century City, California, December 6, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Univision in-house legal department, Los Angeles, California November 30, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Lifetime Television in-house legal department Los Angeles, Century City, California, November 29, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," DreamWorks in-house legal department, Burbank, California, November 27, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," New York State Bar Association Entertainment Arts and Sports Law Section and Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York, November 16, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Lifetime Television in-house legal department, New York, New York, November 15, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," Scripps Networks in-house legal department, New York, New York, November 14, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Web 2.0: Social Networking, User Generated Content and Digital Advertising - Evolving Legal Issues," MTV Networks in-house legal department, New York, New York, November 14, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Legal Issues Concerning Social Networking and User Generated Content," NBC Universal in-house legal department, Burbank, California, June 14, 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Emerging Social Networking, Consumer Recommendation and User Generated Content Issues," Advertisers' & Marketers' Regulatory Summit, American Conference Institute, San Francisco, California, September 18–19, 2007. 
  • Author, "How Licensing Issues Are Affecting Recent Media Developments," Los Angeles Lawyer, June 2007. 
  • Speaker, "Piracy in the Entertainment Industry," Los Angeles Technology Week, Altadena, California, January 25, 2007.
  • Speaker, "Knock Down the Knock-Offs: Trademark Counterfeiting of Entertainment Merchandise," State Bar of California, Intellectual Property In Entertainment & Media Conference, Beverly Hills, California, December 7, 2006. 
  • Author, "Aesthetics v. Science: How Protection of a Product's Appearance Might Outlast Patent Protections," Corporate Counselor, Fall 2006. 
  • Speaker, "Entertainment in the Digital Age, Licensing Issues: New Media and Multi-platform Use," CLE Film & Television Law, Beverly Hills, California, September 29, 2006. 
  • Speaker, "New Frontiers for Trademarks, Entertainment Industry Expands the Role of Trademark Law," Loyola Law School Special Intellectual Property Focus Series, Los Angeles, California, February 24, 2006.


Professional Associations:

Los Angeles County Bar Association (Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Section; Executive Committee)

Loyola Law School Intellectual Property Focus Series (Steering Committee)

International Trademark Association

Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel (Law Firm Advisory Board)

Beverly Hills Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section)

American Bar Association (Litigation and Intellectual Property Section)

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

Black Women Lawyers

California Women Lawyers Association

Georgetown University Law Center - National Alumni Board 

Central District of California, Lawyer Representative United States District Court 

Board of Directors, Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles


Bar Admissions:

California, 1992

 

Honors: 
  • Named by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as a Top Woman Litigator in 2005.

  • President of Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (2005-2006). 

  • Named Woman of Achievement by the Century City Chamber of Commerce (2006).


Personal Information:

Dominique has mentored students through the Urban League's Black Executive Exchange Program, and through her involvement in bar associations. Since 2003, she has been a member of the Museum of Contemporary Art's ("MOCA") Drawings Committee, which advises and oversees MOCA's acquisitions and collections management. Prior to joining the Drawings Committee, Dominique served as a member of the MOCA Contemporaries Board from 1998 to 2003.


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