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Fax: (312) 857-7095 |
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| Mr. Rammelt’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in three principal areas: Business litigation, including shareholder and securities disputes, unfair competition and trade secret claims, contract disputes, and warranty class actions; Trademark and Internet Technology litigation; and Products Liability and Mass Tort litigation. |
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Representative Experience:
Mr. Rammelt has been quoted, or lawsuits in which he has appeared as lead trial counsel have been featured, in numerous press articles, including stories in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The National Law Journal, The Chicago Sun-Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Advertising Age, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, IP Law & Business, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, and The IP Law Bulletin. Mr. Rammelt has appeared on CNBC and Celebrity Justice, and has been quoted or appeared in several books that discuss cases he has handled.
Mr. Rammelt has extensive experience representing multinational corporations in connection with the use of trademarks and technology, particularly in the area of Internet commerce, including defending and prosecuting disputes over trademark infringement involving search engines, domain names, metatags, hyper-linking, and advertising disparagement. He has obtained permanent injunctions for trademark infringement and dilution, including awards of attorneys' fees.
Mr. Rammelt has been asked to handle diverse business matters for a variety of clients. Representative commercial experience includes: disputes involving the sale and/or development of commercial real estate; in four separate lawsuits, defeating attempts by disgruntled shareholders to obtain temporary and permanent injunctions for alleged waste or breach of fiduciary duty; securing temporary restraining orders in cases involving the alleged theft of clients, intellectual property and/or trade secrets; dismissal of $100 million securities fraud case (aff’d on appeal); dismissal of $2 billion Sherman Act antitrust claims (aff’d on appeal); upholding journalists’ privilege under the First Amendment; and more than a dozen cases involving allegations of untrue, deceptive or misleading advertising under the FTC Act. Regularly counsels clients in class action litigation, corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, advertising, breach of contract, trade secret theft, and executive compensations claims.
Mr. Rammelt has been appointed national litigation counsel by four different product manufacturing clients. Mr. Rammelt has handled a variety of products liability matters involving catastrophic injuries or death, defending the design and/or manufacture of automobiles and automobile components, trucks, cranes, exercise equipment, bicycles and other recreational equipment, marine motors, industrial saws, and prescription drugs. He has counseled clients with respect to warranty issues, as well as recall and/or reporting obligations under the Consumer Product Safety Act and the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other international safety organizations.
Mr. Rammelt has appeared in and/or tried cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States, including California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming, among others. He also has advised clients with respect to matters pending in the Bahamas, Taiwan, China, Great Britain and Turkey, with extensive experience taking and defending depositions in Hong Kong and London. |
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Professional Activities:
Member, Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington Alumni Board
Member, Intellectual Property Advisory Board, Indiana University School of Law
Director, Posse Foundation
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Bar Admissions:
Illinois, 1990
Wisconsin, 1999
U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Trial Bar
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
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| Education:
Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, JD, cum laude, 1990
Editor, Indiana Law Journal
Sherman Minton Moot Court Champion
Hamilton College, BA, 1986
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Office Location:
333 West Wacker Drive
26th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
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