Intellectual Property Law
Firm Profile
Law Offices of Philip A. Kantor, P.C. is a full-service, boutique intellectual property law firm. Though we represent a broad range of clients from large corporations to individual inventors, our counseling is direct, individualized and relevant. Services include business formation; domestic and international patent, trademark and copyright applications; organizational, trade secret and license agreements; and all IP-related litigation. All of these services are informed by over twenty years of major, New York law firm experience, and litigation experience in courts throughout the U.S., including the Second, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board and the U.S. Tax Court. We benefit from strong relationships with law firms in New York, Las Vegas and throughout the U.S. and worldwide to enable litigation in all forums, and IP filings and prosecution from China to the European Community. We are proud members of the International Trademark Association and the Clark County Bar Association.
Our firm specializes in all Intellectual Property matters, from the seed of an idea to the final product. We will not only protect what you create, but we’ll also help it thrive in the world. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every case and customize our support to your individual needs and concerns
Areas of Practice
Patent
Trademark
Copyright
Licensing
Trade Secret
Unfair Competition
Liability & Risk
Philip A. Kantor
Yale University (B.A. cum laude)
Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (Licence d’Histoire)
New York University (M.B.A., J.D.)
Connie R. Masters
Harding University (B.S., magna cum laude)
University of Missouri
Philip A. Kantor
Philip A. Kantor
Philip A. Kantor is a Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated Lawyer. Philip A. Kantor began his career in advertising at the Barnum Communications division of J. Walter Thompson (then the largest advertising agencey in the world).
After law school, he worked and was a partner at private practice law firms in New York and at American Express Company, before relocating to Las Vegas and continuing in his own practice. In his long career, he has counseled a diverse array of businesses and individuals, including J. Walter Thompson (advertising agency), Burger King (foodservice and marketing), Holmes Protection (security systems), and dozens of prominent artists, entertainers, producers, directors and sports figures such as B.B. King, Sean Cunningham, Louis Malle and Willie Shoemaker. In addition to trademarks and intellectual property, Mr. Kantor has represented clients in proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities, and in complex securities fraud and bankruptcy actions, including lead management of the first and second largest tax cases in the history of the United States (The Securities Groups and Arbitrage Management cases).
Connie R. Masters
Connie Masters
Connie R. Masters is a registered Patent Agent of counsel to the firm. She is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and is experienced in a wide variety of areas of patent prosecution practice.
After graduating from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas with a B.S. in General Science, she did her Master’s work in cellular biology at the University of Missouri where her research was on a temperature-sensitive mitotic mutant cell line. Connie is very involved in promoting science and technology to students, having served as a mentor for the NASA FIRST Robotics Competition, served on two private school boards, tutored in the ninth ward in New Orleans, and provided numerous scientific presentations and enrichment opportunities for high school students. She previously taught high school math and science. She is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), and has served on the Executive Board of the New Orleans Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She has substantial expertise in the protection of industrial equipment, tools, robotics, computer hardware, software, Internet and networking applications, biotechnology, medical devices, genetics, and immunology.
More recently, the firm is advancing high-level projects in such diverse fields of technology and commerce as: postmarked email (Trustifi), mobile phone and tablet accessories (Just Wireless), salon tools (Sam Villa), digital media production and distribution (Remark Media), preserved and fabricated trees and botanicals for commercial installations (International Treescapes), eyewear distribution (GSI), water-saving irrigation controllers (Leapfrog Systems), beverages/paper bottles (GreenOne), on-demand production of medical isotopes (Global Medical), multi-generational and live/work housing design (Environmental Design Group), medical records processing (Health Data Vision), interactive toys (Square Panda), VOIP (Eyeball Networks). Examples of past and present litigations include: parallel imports (Gucci v. Wal-Mart; Loro Piana v. Wal-Mart; Max Mara v. Wal-Mart), trademark oppositions (Blue Nile v. Bluedial.com; La Senza v. Olympic Mountain; EMI v. Golden Song, Warner Bros. v. Kagan), trademark infringement (Sun Microsystems v. Accurate Technologies; Silkskin v. Fulfillment Lab), patent infringement and invalidity (SkyZone v. Flip N’Out; RPost v. Trustifi; Home Gambling Network v. Casinowebcam.com), copyright infringement (Bisnews AFE (Thailand) v. Aspen Research Group; Frontier Designs v. Chicago Title), trade secret theft (Caesars World v. Milanian; American Honda v. Motorcycle Information Network; Corwin v. Walt Disney Company; Nike v. Dixon).
Mr. Kantor serves on multiple boards, including the Board of Trustees of the Adelson Educational Campus. Ms. Masters has also served on multiple boards.
Areas of Practice
Patent
Patents provide protection for your utility or design invention. We assist you with US and/or foreign patents, including Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent applications, and both prosecuting and defending patent infringement litigation.
Trademark
Trademarks are brand names identifying who makes and sells products or services. We can help you select and vet these brand names, as well as register and protect them through the courts, or defend you against trademark infringement claims.
Copyright
Copyright protects literary, musical, artistic, audiovisual and choreographic expression, as well as computer software. We can help you identify protectable expression, register it, and protect it through the courts, or defend you against copyright infringement claims.
Licensing
Licenses are business arrangements enabling patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret owners to monetize their properties. We craft these arrangements and litigate them, as needed.
Trade Secret
Trade secrets are manufacturing and commercial secrets that have been kept from public disclosure. We advise you on using trade secret to protect your valuable information, to prosecute violations of your rights, and to defend you against trade secret claims.
Advertising & Unfair Competition
The law provides businesses with important protections against false and unfair advertising by competitors. We can assist your business in complying with these laws, as well as prosecuting and defending advertising and unfair competition claims.
Liability & Risk
We can help your business avoid claims involving all of the foregoing, as well as review your compliance with applicable laws and regulations through preventive analysis of your current arrangements.
Directions to Our Office in Las Vegas
The office is located inside Village Center Circle, which is a large circle containing office and professional buildings, including the Summerlin Library. Access our office by entering the circle from the traffic circle at the north end at Hills Center Drive. Our office is just to the left.