Joseph Looney joined Adams and Reese in 1991 after serving as a partner for many years in a general corporate law firm in New Orleans. He assisted in the opening of Adams and Reese’s Jackson office and focuses his practice in the areas of patent law, trademarks, trade secrets, technology, computer law and other intellectual property law matters.
He has worked for clients in the manufacturing, energy, international trade, communications and entertainment industries. He has litigated and provided appellate representation in cases involving trademark, copyright, computer law, trade secret, right of publicity and unfair competition in state and federal courts in Louisiana and Texas.
His other significant contributions include:
- Experience in civil law and litigation practice since 1976. He has litigated and advised on sensitive and difficult matters of fiduciary duties, renegade managers, partnerships and developing areas of limited liability company matters in Louisiana and Texas.
- Negotiating commercial deals involving intellectual property or software for Internet companies, shipyards, communications companies and entertainment entities. He has provided counsel on federal trademark, patent and copyright law as well as Louisiana and Texas law of trade secrets, intellectual property misappropriation and licensing.
- Litigating complex matters in Louisiana involving application of the Civil Law to property, obligations, intellectual property, successions and estates and security devices.
Joe was for several years an adjunct professor for third-year law students and graduate students at Tulane Law School, where he has taught a course on entertainment law, and he lectures at seminars on computer law and technology and entertainment law issues.
He admires several current and past United States Supreme Court justices, several present and past partners at Adams and Reese and his wife.
In his free time, Joe has written and performed music. He also enjoys playwriting and fiction-writing, mountaineering, and theology and philosophy.
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