Jessica Wood
Key details
- Job title: Partner
- Firm: Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
- Jurisdiction: US
Los Angeles-based Jessica Wood focuses on intellectual property protection, enforcement, and brand strategy. She has more than 15 years of experience advising clients on global trademark portfolio management, IP transactions, copyright and content protection, digital enforcement, and dispute resolution. Her practice spans entertainment, technology, consumer products, fashion, food and beverage, automotive, and emerging digital platforms.
Wood regularly advises founders, executives, and creators, including women and underrepresented innovators, on protecting and scaling IP assets as part of broader business strategy. She also leads cross-office teams on complex global trademark matters and actively mentors junior attorneys within her practice.
Her work includes several high-profile matters. She has advised The White Stripes and Jack White on international trademark portfolio strategy and brand expansion, including the growth of Third Man Records into a multimedia brand. She has also been involved in major estate and rights litigation for the Estate of Earl Simmons (DMX), including global trademark portfolio expansion and proceedings concerning ownership of IP rights, with a 2025 judicial order affirming the estate’s ownership of key IP.
She has additionally advised on high-value entertainment and brand transactions, including the financing and acquisition of KISS’s music catalogue, name, image, and likeness rights in a deal reported at approximately $300 million, and worked on trademark matters connected to L.A.B. Golf Company’s global expansion and private equity investment by L Catterton.
Before joining Manatt, Wood was counsel in Viacom Media Networks’ Intellectual Property and Litigation, Business and Legal Affairs Department, where she managed trademark prosecution, enforcement, and content clearance for global entertainment brands. Earlier in her career, she worked in brand strategy and marketing at McCann-Erickson and DDB Worldwide, experience that continues to inform her strategic, business-focused approach to IP.