Celesq® Presenters

Rex Heinke is a Partner at Complex Appellate Litigation Group (CALG).  He has extensive experience in copyright, trademark, right of publicity, cyber-space/internet, defamation, invasion of privacy, advertising, high technology, media, and entertainment law matters.  He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, Euromoney Publication’s Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Trademark Law, the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Who’s Who in Law, and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers.  He has litigated cases including Greenwich Workshop v. Timber Creations (copyright infringement by derivative works), New Kids On The Block v. News America Publishing (trademark/right of publicity), Carver v. Paramount Pictures (implied contract and copyright claims), Sega v. Accolade (reverse engineering of computer software), Los Angeles Times & Washington Post v. Free Republic (copyright infringement on the internet), CurtCo Freedom Group v. Stereophile (trade dress in a magazine cover), and Newcombe v. Infogrames (right of publicity).  He has lectured and written on these issues for a variety of groups, including the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Committee, the U.S.C. Entertainment Law Institute, the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Symposium, the Practicing Law Institute, and the Duke and University of Oregon law schools. 

Rex is an author of Media Law published by BNA (a leading treatise on the legal problems of the media). 

Rex served as president of the Los Angeles Bar Association and the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and has served as a member of the California Judicial Council and the Board of Governors of the California State Bar