Associate
apeikes@grr.com

Education
Brown University, B.A., 2001
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2006

Admissions
New Jersey Bar, 2006
New Jersey Federal Courts, 2007
New York Bar, 2007

Ariel Peikes is involved in all areas of trademark, copyright, and unfair competition litigation. He works directly with designers, restaurants, and other businesses to establish and to protect their intellectual property rights.

Mr. Peikes interned with the firm in 2006, during his last semester of law school. After practicing litigation, labor, employment, and education law for four years, Mr. Peikes returned to the firm as an associate in November 2010.

He has appeared as counsel in numerous trials and hearings before administrative bodies. He has also presented legal arguments orally before state and federal courts and submitted briefs to appellate courts, including the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Selected Publications

"Not Fair Use: How a Well-Known Artist Committed Copyright Infringement When he Copied too Much Without Commenting on or Criticizing the Original Work," GRR Intellectual Property News (June 2011).

"It's Thursday, Thursday: Rebecca Black's 'Friday' and its Many Parodies," GRR Intellectual Property News (May 2011).