Steven B. Winters

• Advised Caffe D'arte, a Seattle-based coffee shop and coffee bean wholesaler, in its purchase of five separate Tully's franchise coffee shop locations in and around Boise, Idaho.
• Advised creativeLIVE, Inc., an online creative educator, in its Series A preferred stock financing.
• Advised New Wave Group AB in its strategic acquisition of Ahead, Inc., a Massachusetts-based headwear and apparel company.
• Advised New Wave Group AB in the cross-border acquisition of Paris Glove of Canada Ltd, a Montreal, Canada-based manufacturer of gloves and golf apparel.
• Acting as outside lead counsel to BroadbandTV Corp. in all of its intellectual property matters and U.S. dealings (the company is located in British Columbia).
• Providing advice to CityMix, construction industry startup, regarding all aspects of patent and trade secret protection, filing strategies, developing new business models, licensing, supply, and distribution.
• Advised the owners of Washington Partners, previously Seattle's largest independent commercial real estate tenant brokerage agency, in the sale of their Seattle business to a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle, an international commercial real estate company.
• Assisted music equipment company Roland Corporation in developing sweepstakes promoting international and national music competition featuring company's products.
• Advise Roland Corporation in all aspects of intellectual property protection, strategic analysis, contests and sweepstakes, and dispute resolution in the U.S.
• Assisted SanMar in acquiring Volunteer Knitwear as part of its initiative around Made in USA fabrics, sweatshirts, and t-shirts.
• Advised Aviation Partners, Inc., a Seattle-based private corporation that specializes in performance enhancing winglet systems, in the formation of a joint venture with Flexsys, Inc. to develop wing-morphing technology.
• Advised Lundberg, LLC in the sale of its business.
• Advised the January Company, a leading manufacturer of Chinese-style meat products, in the sale of its business.
• Advised Caffé D'arte on a branded storefront license and supply transaction for the new Sea-Tax annex.
• Represented the Center for Infectious Disease Research in an affiliation and asset transfer.
• Represented CustomArray Inc., a major DNA oligo pool synthesizing company, and its stockholders in connection with the sale of its business to GenScript Biotech Corp.

Attachmate Corporation v. Tarmac Ltd.
Defended Tarmac Ltd. in a multi-million dollar defense of a software copyright infringement lawsuit.

GeoTag Inc v. Frontier Communications Corp et al
Defended Intelius/inome in a patent infringement suit for a locator service, alleging that that Intelius infringes a patent for database searches that are both geographical and topical.