Alissa Ricioppo

Biography description

Alissa Ricioppo is an intellectual property lawyer who works with clients spanning a variety of industries, including entertainment and media, marketing and advertising, and emerging technologies. Alissa is passionate about working with artists, start-ups, and other entrepreneurs to protect, commercialize, and manage their intellectual property assets. She assists clients with obtaining trademark and copyright protections, managing intellectual property disputes, transactional work involving intellectual property due diligence and contractual matters such as licensing.

In the entertainment and media sector, Alissa works with musical artists, content creators and film and television productions in matters specific to their industry, such as record deals, endorsements, rights acquisitions, chain of title clearance, licensing and distribution.

In the marketing and advertising and product regulatory space, Alissa supports clients with matters related to consumer protection, Canada’s anti-spam law (CASL), privacy, product classification and compliance, and e-commerce sales. She regularly reviews product labels and advertising campaigns, contests, and promotions, and negotiates related contracts on behalf of clients.

Alissa also works on matters related to technology, including issues related to artificial intelligence, data protection, and software development and licensing agreements. She has experience dealing with cryptocurrency and blockchain related matters, such as tokenized business models, the creation and sale of NFTs, deployment of blockchain technology, and the regulation of crypto asset trading platforms.