Owen Seitel

With a passion for Advising Creativity®, Owen has more than 30 years of experience with commercial endeavors, transactions, and disputes involving intellectual property and broader business matters. He helps his clients identify, capture, protect, leverage, and generate revenue from original works. Owen also counsels and represents businesses that engage creatives, typically for marketing and advertising purposes. Owen’s clients include creators, as well as producers and distributors, of all forms of entertainment, sports, and informational content.

Owen also provides legal counsel to creative services providers, such as branding, naming, and package design firms, offering experienced counsel in negotiations and contracting. He handles a broad range of transactional matters — all aspects of the creation, protection, licensing, and distribution of intellectual property — and resolution of business and intellectual property disputes. Owen counsels and assists business enterprises at all stages, from idea and start-up, through financing and growth, joint venture and merger, and acquisition to dissolution.

Owen is a member of the California and San Francisco Bar Associations, the American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, the Intellectual Property Law Section of the California State Bar Association, the Sports Lawyers Association, and the International Trademark Association. Owen currently serves as Co-Vice Chair of the CLA IP Law Section Entertainment and Sports Interest Group. He is a former chair of the board of trustees of the Headlands Center for the Arts, which provides residencies and workspace for emerging and mid-career artists in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County, California.

A former adjunct professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, Owen frequently appears as a panelist at technology, multimedia, sports, entertainment, legal, and industry conferences.

When he has time to vacation, he often seeks a warm beach, like those where he grew up in south Florida. He is always down to grab some tasty Indian food or sushi, which must be accompanied by an ice cold beer (or two). Owen loves baseball and carves out time to go to Spring Training with his daughter every year. He’s inspired by artists like Bruce Springsteen, Roy Lichtenstein, Gordon Parks, Tom Petty, Diplo, and Wayne Shorter, to name just a few.

When he isn’t helping his clients, you will probably find him on his bike, dodging cars in San Francisco or climbing the hills of the Marin Headlands.