Strategies to Mitigate Risk of Cancellation
and Invalidation of Marks
CD of Teleconference with Q&A
The panel included:
Stephen R. Baird, Shareholder, Winthrop & Weinstine, Minneapolis. He heads the firm's Intellectual Property and Trademark and Brand Management Practice groups and handles trademark litigation matters in proceedings in federal court and before the TTAB. He counsels clients on trademark usage and clearance, branding strategies, portfolio management, litigation and enforcement, internet domain name disputes, licensing and prosecution.
Jennifer Lee Taylor, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco. She focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling. She has extensive experience litigating opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She counsels clients on trademark and copyright matters, including registering trademarks, service marks and copyrights, managing portfolios, policing marks and copyrights, and licensing agreements.
Beth A. Chapman, Of Counsel, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, Alexandria, Va. She is a member of the firm's Trademark and Copyright Department. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) Judge (1998–2005). Before her judicial appointment, she served as an examining attorney, then a managing attorney of a law office, before taking a position as an interlocutory attorney at the TTAB.