I'm Suzette Toledano, Attorney-At-Law
Arts, Entertainment & Cannabis Intellectual Property
Practicing IP Law Above The House of Blues®
About Me
Suzette Toledano, of Toledano Entertainment and Arts Law, thrives on puzzling out legally interesting challenges. Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell and designated as a Super Lawyer and recognized by Best Lawyers in America. She is a 1976 journalism graduate of The University of Texas in Austin and a 1979 graduate of Tulane Law School.
Proud to have served as a Board Member of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. for almost 20 years, Suzette’s additional civic involvement includes multiple past terms of serving on the boards of non-profit arts, education, real estate, women’s business and healthcare non-profit organizations.
A "Rock" and "Roll" legal practice in the French Quarter.
Suzette’s practice has evolved from protecting licensing copyrights and trademarks in the music and entertainment business to creatively branding, protecting and licensing intellectual property in the cannabis business.
An avant-garde combination that suites her spirited personality.
Together with her family, she developed the real estate where the prototype House of Blues is located, resulting in the Vieux Carre Entertainment District and positively impacting the land use of the Upper Decatur quadrant of the French Quarter, above which she lives and works in the New Orleans French Quarter.
Intro to Cannabis Branding
First venturing into the cannabis space in August of 2015, Suzette provides intellectual property legal services to a branding client operating in California (where adult use cannabis is legal) on trademark and licensing issues pertinent to the Willie Nelson Willie’s Reserve trademarks and The Grateful Dead trademarks. In 2017 she led a team who submitted an application to be the operator on behalf of a Louisiana university’s Therapeutic Marijuana Producer’s license.
Copyrights & Trademarks
Legally protects brand names, logos, and symbols; Distinguishes your products from competitors; Offers protection against infringement
Licensing
Brands can license their trademarks, allowing expansion into new markets and industries in exchange for royalties.
Rights of Publicity
Obtaining permission to use third-party intellectual
property (IP) in creative content – without the threat of an
infringement claim.
My Clients
Representative clients include: The National World War II Museum, Digital Artist and Electromineralist, Android Jones, whose artwork is featured at Meow Wolf in Denver, Co., Miss America 2019, whose social impact initiative was to educate Americans to use prescription drugs responsibly, “The Pharmacist,” Dan Schneider, whose 4-part series premiered on Netflix in February 2020, and various record labels, music publishers, concert promoters, recording artists, producers, visual artists, photographers, authors, screenwriters and filmmakers, with Oscar and Grammy nominees/winners among them.