Nilesh (Neal)
Patel
Counsel
Neal is an advertising and intellectual property attorney who focuses his practice on helping clients design and implement marketing and advertising initiatives to meet their business objectives, while ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Neal's practice covers the full gamut of issues that companies and advertising agencies face, including negotiating, drafting, and counseling on a wide variety of intellectual property opportunities, advertising and marketing related agreements, content and IP licensing, naming rights, product placement, sponsorship, and endorsement agreements. He also performs advertising review, claim substantiation analysis, sweepstakes and promotions review. Neal spends a great deal of time analyzing online programs and helping to structure user-generative content sites with appropriate registration processes, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy documents, and for compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Communications Decency Act (CDA), and related laws.
Prior to joining Frost Brown Todd LLC, Neal was lead advertising counsel for Sprint Nextel Corporation and an associate with Bryan Cave LLP in Kansas City, Missouri.