Laura Kees is the leader of the firm’s Trademarks, Copyrights & Transactions Group. She concentrates her practice on managing trademark and copyright portfolios; counseling clients on risks associated with proposed names and marks; evaluating when applications for domestic and/or international registration should be filed and advising how and when to maintain those registrations. 

When providing strategic trademark and copyright advice, Sara Bauer understands that there is no one-size-fits all approach. She believes it is critically important to understand a client’s business model – from where they are now to where they want to go – to effectively meet both short- and long-term goals with an effective domestic and global IP strategy.

Pete Bromaghim focuses on all aspects of trademark law, in addition to copyright, domain name, and related intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in trademark selection, clearance, and portfolio strategies. He oversees the prosecution of trademark applications domestically and internationally, and heads up global enforcement matters involving many famous marks.

Tara Cho chairs Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Team. She helps clients with all aspects of privacy and data security law, including establishing and assessing compliance programs, responding to data breaches and security incidents, conducting risk analyses, drafting privacy policies, negotiating contracts that govern data use and security, and responding to regulator requests and investigations.

Carla Clements focuses on helping businesses protect their brands and original works through every aspect of the prosecution process. She regularly counsels clients through the selection of marks, the preparation and filing of trademark and copyright applications, overcoming objections to registration, and the maintenance of registrations, both domestically and internationally.

Evan Fultz is a trusted advisor to his clients, helping them manage, defend, and enforce their interests at home and abroad. He advises businesses on their trademark and other proprietary rights in connection with the launch and protection of new brands, as well as in connection with acquisitions, divestitures, and expansions. Evan also manages worldwide monitoring and enforcement programs for his clients’ most valuable brands.

Amy Galloway advises clients in relation to trade mark, design and domain name matters, at a national and international level. She has experience filing and prosecuting trade mark and design applications, advising on the protection and exploitation of trade marks, trade mark clearance searches, managing IP portfolios and handling oppositions at the trade mark registries.

Greg Gulia is a full-spectrum IP litigator and practitioner who counsels clients on a broad range of intellectual property issues, negotiates all forms of IP agreements, manages large trademark portfolios, and litigates IP cases. He has represented many of the world’s leading companies and artists in finding creative ways to create, develop, and monetize IP assets for them and protect their brands.

Nick Hawkins works with companies of all sizes by assisting them with intellectual property management, private equity and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate governance. He’s adept at developing brand management and protection strategies for clients by advising product and marketing teams, addressing product design concerns, clearing trademarks, and reviewing marketing creative for compliance.

Vanessa Hew focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation and strategic counseling with an emphasis on trademark and copyright matters. She has counseled intellectual property owners in a wide variety of industries, including personal care and cosmetics, food and beverage, wellness, fashion, home care and design, social media, software, music, and art. 

Jennifer Kwon focuses on helping clients protect, enforce, and defend their intellectual property rights. She counsels clients regarding the protection and registration of trademarks and copyrights, both domestically and internationally, including clearance of marks, advising clients regarding potential risks, overcoming objections to registration, maintenance of registrations, and preparing trademark and copyright-related agreements.

James Loves' experience extends to all aspects of intellectual property including patents, trade marks, copyright, designs, passing off, database rights and confidential information. He has top level experience, spanning more than 30 years, of the protection, exploitation, challenge and enforcement of intellectual property including disputes in the Supreme Court.

Kelli Ovies advises clients on trademark and copyright matters. She regularly prepares and prosecutes trademark and copyright applications, conducts and reviews trademark clearance searches, responds to USPTO Office Actions, and assists with maintaining U.S. and international trademark registrations.

Christine Xiao focuses her practice on intellectual property transactions, data privacy, and cybersecurity. She regularly reviews, drafts, and prepares online privacy policies, terms of use, and other externally-facing documents related to data collection and use for clients in a variety of sectors. Christine also works on ongoing privacy compliance projects related to U.S. state and federal privacy laws as well as European privacy laws.

Andrew Beverina has more than two decades of trial and litigation experience focused on patent litigation disputes in district courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). A former Senior Investigative Attorney in the Office of Unfair Import Investigations with the ITC, Andrew represented the public interest in dozens of 337 investigations at the violation stage.

Hailey Bureau focuses her practice on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications within the areas of chemistry, material science, and biotechnology. She leverages her scientific background to create effective patent prosecution strategies.

Andy Claerbout is an experienced patent attorney who understands clients’ business needs and how those business needs can be protected using the global intellectual property laws to maximize value of intellectual property. By helping clients navigate the world of global intellectual property issues, Andy increases the value of commercial products by obtaining meaningful and valuable intellectual property protection for those products.

Kelsey Ewing practices intellectual property law with an emphasis on patent prosecution and IP litigation. She draws on her Chemical Engineering background and focuses on the biomedical, material science, mechanical and chemical fields. 

Steve Levitan focuses his practice on patent, trade secret, trademark, and technology contract disputes. He has first chaired trials and argued appeals, obtaining successful results in actions before federal and state courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and American Arbitration Association (AAA) arbitration tribunals.

Carrie Richey counsels clients on a broad range of intellectual property litigation matters, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright and other intellectual property and technology disputes. She has successfully represented clients in all phases of litigation, including investigation, discovery, law and motion, trial, and appeal and post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. 

Stephanie Riley's experience in IP litigation extends to trademark infringement, false advertising, and misappropriation of trade secrets. She also serves as counsel assisting outside counsel in intellectual property litigation, and has experience in patent, trademark, and copyright litigation.

Having spent six years as a research and development engineer at Lexmark International, Inc., where he earned several patents as an inventor, Flynt Strean fully understands both the inventive and protective perspectives of the patent process. He has extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting US and foreign patent applications, performing clearance investigations, preparing patentability, noninfringement and invalidity opinions, and conducting due diligence investigations.

Lester Vincent’s IP practice includes patent prosecution, transactions, due diligence work, agreements, opinions (including validity, infringement, patentability, right-to-practice (RTP), and freedom-to-operate (FTO) opinions), counseling, offensive and defensive patent issues, licensing, and litigation. He also handles copyright and open source issues. He works with foreign IP firms and foreign clients with respect to domestic and international patent prosecution, including Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) work.

Jake Wharton helps clients protect and defend their IP assets. He assists clients with IP disputes in federal courts, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and in private arbitrations. His experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications, as well as counseling clients on trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters, provides a deep knowledge of what it takes to successfully procure and protect what may be a business’s most valuable assets—their intellectual property.

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