Owen Seitel is a Principal and Founding Partner of Crown®, LLP, a boutique intellectual property firm located in San Francisco, California. With a passion for Advising Creativity®, Owen has more than 30 years of legal experience with commercial endeavors, transactions, and disputes involving intellectual property and broader business matters. He handles a broad range of transactional matters — all aspects of the creation, protection, licensing, distribution, and exploitation 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. His clients include creative services providers, such as branding, naming, and package. design firms, as well as producers and distributors of entertainment, educational, and media content, and individual creatives of all sorts, for whom he provides experienced counsel in negotiations, contracting, and dispute resolution. 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, and the International Trademark Association. Owen currently serves as Co-Vice Chair of the CLA IP Law Section Entertainment and Sports Interest Group. Owen was named one of the top 100 Intellectual Property Lawyers for 2025 by the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper. Crown®, LLP is ranked a Top IP Firm in California by Chambers USA: Spotlight Guide for 2025.