April 25, 2022
Maxwell Goss is an attorney with Fishman Stewart PLLC in Troy, Michigan. Max represents plaintiffs and defendants in all stages of federal and state court litigation and provides strategic advice on intellectual property and business law matters. He has represented clients in cases throughout the country. Experienced in a broad range of matters, Max’s practices focuses chiefly on trade secret, intellectual property, non-compete, and shareholder litigation.
Max works with businesses of all sizes and with entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, engineers, inventors, creatives, tech professionals, sales professionals, and other individuals. He has represented clients in industries including healthcare, software development, human resources, automotive, energy, medical device, e-commerce, entertainment, insurance, hospitality, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction, retail, financial services, and logistics.
Max is a blogger and is the host of The Litigation War Room podcast.
Max started his career at the elite law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where he was trained by one of Texas’s premier business trial lawyers. Max later managed his own successful law firm before joining Fishman Stewart PLLC.
Max is licensed in Michigan and Texas. Max is not a licensee of the State Bar of California.
Max has also been admitted pro hac vice to various U.S. District Courts including the District of Delaware, Northern District of California, Central District of California, Southern District of Florida, Northern District of Indiana, District of Maine, District of Minnesota, Southern District of Ohio, and Eastern District of Virginia, and to the United States Patent and Trial Appeal Board.
Case: Best Value Auto Parts Distributors, Inc. v. Quality Collision Parts, Inc. et al. | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
Case: Sucxess LLC v. AutoX Technologies, Inc. | Court: United States District Court for the District of Delaware | Nature of Suit: Patent
Case: JVIS-USA, LLC v. NXP Semiconductors USA, Inc., et al. | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Contract
Case: North American Specialty Insurance Company v. Titan Retail Development Industries, LLC, et al. | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Contract
Case: Sahi Cosmetics L.L.C v. Rea.Deeming Beauty, Inc. D/B/A Beautyblender | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Trademark
Case: Pepperman et al. v. Power Home Solar LLC et al. | Court: Oakland County Circuit Court | Nature of Suit: Contract
Case: Ziebart International Corporation v. Z Technologies Corporation | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Trademark
Case: Xoran Holdings LLC et al. v. Luick et al. | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
Case: ABG Prime Group v. Innovative Salon Products | Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Nature of Suit: Trademark
Case: ADP LLC v. Capote | Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Texas | Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
Case: Wyers Products Group v. Cequent Performance Products, Inc. | Court: United States District Court for the District of Colorado | Nature of Suit: Patent
Case: Ancestry Operations, Inc. v. DNA Diagnostic Center, Inc. | Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio | Nature of Suit: Trademark
Max was born in Detroit and grew up in the resort town of Charlevoix, Michigan. Before law school, Max earned a doctorate in philosophy and taught logic, ethics, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy at several universities.
April 25, 2022
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