Joshua Tropper

He also has extensive experience in counseling, licensing, and litigation involving the protection of clients' copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.

• Manages a team of approximately 40 attorneys and paralegals working with local counsel in California to draft discovery, motion, pretrial, and post-judgment correspondence and pleadings in the defense of several thousand lemon law cases, with appropriate use of artificial intelligence tools, on behalf of a major U.S. automobile manufacturer, including strategic guidance on achieving improved results at lower cost per case.

• Helped design and implement automated case management systems for multiple automobile manufacturers to increase efficiency and reliability in the defense of automobile warranty claims and to provide enhanced data for more effective oversight of local litigation counsel.

• Leads teams of attorneys and support personnel who provide drafting and management support for major European and Japanese automobile manufacturers to better coordinate the activities of local litigation counsel.

• Designed and implemented strategies for establishing protectable trademark and trade dress rights in marks requiring secondary meaning.

• Coordinated, organized, and contributed to the drafting of an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of a successful effort to preserve an appropriate balance between independence and state control of public charter schools.

• Defended a judgment, including a bill of peace, in litigation with a vexatious litigant on appeal to the Supreme Court of Georgia.

• Lead counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court on the successful opposition to a petition for review in a trademark appeal involving complex sovereign immunity issues.

• Advised multiple clients in responding to jurisdictional questions posed by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Coordinating the appellate strategy of a religious institution involved in a multifront dispute with splinter sects.

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Appellate Practice (2023 – 2026)
• Member – State Bar of Georgia, Intellectual Property Law Section, Technology Law Section
• Member – American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
• Member – State Bar of California, Intellectual Property Law Section
• Member – American Bar Association Council of Appellate Lawyers

• "The Supreme Court Declines to Require Religious Charter Schools" (May 2025)
• "FDA's Compliance Policy Guide on Marketed Unapproved Drugs," UPDATE, FDLI's magazine (January/February 2012)

• "Point Break 2.0: The Trademark Preliminary Injunction Hearing," State Bar of Georgia, Intellectual Property Section (April 2016)

• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 Listing (August 21, 2025)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 Listing (August 15, 2024)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2024 Listing (August 17, 2023)
• Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing (August 18, 2022)