Allison S. Blanco

Allison S. Blanco is Counsel in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and Litigation & Trial Department at Latham & Watkins LLP, based in Orange County, California. Her practice focuses on complex commercial issues at the intersection of business and intellectual property law, drawing on her background in economics and international business. She advises clients on licensing and commercializing IP assets involving technology, software, trademarks, copyright, and content. Her litigation experience spans internet law, including web-scraping, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) matters, and website terms of service disputes, as well as trademark and copyright infringement, false advertising, and trade secret litigation.

Ms. Blanco primarily works on the defense side, representing companies in various intellectual property disputes. Her professional appearances include one tracked instance as local counsel for a defendant in an untitled case. Notable engagements include representing Craigslist in web-scraping lawsuits against RadPad, which resulted in a US$60.5 million judgment, and against 3taps, involving allegations of copyright and trademark infringement and CFAA violations. She has also advised a leading REIT market research and advisory firm in a dispute concerning alleged retention and use of confidential information.

There is no publicly available information indicating Allison S. Blanco regularly appears in PTAB or IPR proceedings.

Ms. Blanco earned her JD summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law in 2012, and a BA summa cum laude from the University of Southern California in 2009. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2012.