Mr. Genetski is vice-chair of the Washington, D.C., office's Internet, Communications & Data Protection Practice. He has extensive experience advising clients on protecting proprietary information and intellectual property online. He conducts investigations for companies suffering a breach of computer security, infringement of intellectual property or other hostile Internet activity, and represents those companies in filing civil litigation, making criminal referrals, or defending state and federal regulatory inquiries.
Mr. Genetski is a former trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where he coordinated the investigations of several prominent computer crime cases, including the widely publicized Denial of Service Attacks that hit e-commerce sites eBay, Amazon.com and others in February 2000, and prosecuted criminal copyright, trademark and Economic Espionage Act cases. He also trained federal prosecutors and agents on computer crime, intellectual property rights enforcement, privacy, encryption, critical infrastructure protection and other issues arising in connection with new technologies.
Representative Experience
Mr. Genetski represents many of the nation’s most prominent computer and video game publishers, social networking sites, ISPs and satellite and cable television providers. He advises these clients on privacy, security, and intellectual property issues arising from the storage of user data and introduction of new technologies and services, and handles significant litigation against infringers, hackers, spammers and other Internet wrongdoers. Mr. Genetski has also defended numerous cases involving trademark, unfair practices, DMCA, right of publicity and related privacy and IP claims. He is recognized as one of the country’s leading practitioners on issues arising under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.