Apparel: Mr. Sarabia can provide expert testimony and analysis about Contracts, Manufacturing (local, abroad), Import, Export, Sales, Distribution, Similarity of Apparel Lines and Protection of Designs.

Licensing: More than 25 years of experience in consumer licensing: international and domestic licensing including revenue projections, monitoring of licensees, standards of the industry, performance and breaches. He was an expert in licensing for the Vatican, Converse and Jones Apparel.

Trademarks: registration, secondary meaning, infringement, dilution, searches, investigations, due diligence, trade dress and counterfeiting.

Copyrights: originality and substantial similarity of copyrights.

Design patents: defenses based on lack on originality, identify and analyze obviousness and prior art

Standards of Practice of Apparel Business Lawyers, Intellectual Property Lawyers and Licensing Lawyers: Based on his 25 years of in depth experience as a lawyer in the apparel business and with intellectual property and licensing law, Mr. Sarabia can provide expert opinions as to the standard of care of lawyers

Mr. Robert Bartlett is a Retail Industry Management Consultant with over twenty five years of experience in serving the retail industry. His current practice focuses on the needs of emerging and/or high-growth retail companies in the areas of Strategic and Business Planning, Organization, Management, Capital Formation and the Rapid Implementation of Core Business Strategies. Mr. Bartlett has provided expert testimony in a wide range of cases where real world knowledge and experience is required.

Profile: More than 40 years experience in the Fashion / Garment / Textile Industry, as a retailer, manufacturer, consultant, and college instructor. She is a perceptive and articulate expert witness who has been involved in more than 50 apparel industry legal disputes. She has been deposed and testified for both defendants and plaintiffs. She has owned her own clothing manufacturing company and has held key executive positions in major public and private companies in So. California.

Ms. Goldaper has been a management consultant to over 180 new, failing or growing apparel companies, and completed assignments for USAID in Romania, Egypt, El Salvador, Moscow, Thailand and Bulgaria. She is a 25-year member of the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

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Marie Holman-Rao has been President of Limited Design Services since its creation in 1997. Limited Design Services is a New York-based division dedicated to developing and strengthening the Company’s merchandising and brands. Previously, Ms. Holman-Rao worked as the President of Banana Republic. She has also served in leadership design, fashion, and merchandising positions at Ann Taylor, Adrienne Vittadini, Perry Ellis, and Macy’s. Ms. Holman-Rao is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Douglas College, Rutgers University.

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