Education

• • • • George Washington University Law School

        Washington, D.C.
        LL.M., Intellectual Property, 2001

      • University of Kentucky College of Law

        Lexington, Kentucky
        Juris Doctor, 1994

      • University of the South

        Sewanee, Tennessee
        B.A., Psychology, cum laude, 1991

Awards

• • • • • Top Lawyers for Media Law

          Louisville Magazine’s Top Lawyers for Media Law 2013

        • Top 250 Women in Intellectual Property (2014-2018)

          Managing Intellectual Property Magazine, Top 250 Women in Intellectual Property

        • SuperLawyer for Intellectual Property (2013-2015)

          SuperLawyers Magazine SuperLawyer for Intellectual Property

        • AV-Preeminent© rated

          Martindale-Hubbell® AV-Preeminent© rated

        • America’s Leading Lawyers for Business Intellectual Property (2015)

          Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business Intellectual Property

Publications and Speaking Engagements

• Speaker/Moderator, AIPLA Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., “Trademark Prosecution Strategies,” October 2008

• Speaker, AIPLA MidWinter Institute, Miami, Florida, (CLE credit) “The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (“the PRO-IP Act”),” January 2009

• Speaker: 2010 Kentucky Bar Association Annual Convention, Lexington, Kentucky (CLE credit) “Copyright Law,” June 2010

• Speaker: Kentucky Bar Association Annual Meeting: “ IP for the Occasional Practitioner”, June 2014

• Speaker: Stites & Harbison: Thirsty Thursday Event, “Intellectual Property Law for Trade Associations”, May 2013

• Speaker: Stites & Harbison Litigation Lunch, “Social Networking and Ethical Issues,” December 2010

• Speaker: Stites & Harbison Litigation Lunch “Changes on the Internet,” July 2012

• Speaker: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier and Neustadt, P.C. (CLE credit), “Trademark Dilution, the FTDA and Victoria’s Secret,” January 2003

• Speaker: Arlington County Bar Association (CLE credit), Arlington, Virginia, “Trademark Dilution, the FTDA and Victoria’s Secret,” May 2003

• Speaker: Louisville Bar Association (CLE credit), “Intellectual Property Unplugged, Evolving Technology and Trademark Coexistence Agreements,” June 2007

• Speaker: Fayette County Bar Association (CLE credit), “How Much Protection Do Famous Trademark’s Deserve: The Trademark Dilution Revision Act,” June 2007

Services

• Trademark and Copyright Infringement Litigation

• Trademark Clearance

• Trademark and Copyright Registration

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Inter Partes Proceedings

• Software Audit Defense

• Software License Review

• Advertising Review and Counseling

• Trademark Licensing

Relevant Experience

• Lead counsel in federal court litigation arising from infringement claims directed to works of visual art, celebrity likenesses, architectural works and software.

• Development of strategy for, prosecution and maintenance of domestic and international trademark portfolios for U.S.-based companies with foreign product markets.

• Further commercialization of intellectual property through licensed restaurant concepts and merchandising agreements with national companies creating revenues streams for intellectual property owners.

• Streamline online IP enforcement efforts for trademark and copyright owners and implement risk reduction strategies for online content providers.

• Author of two U.S. Supreme Court amicus briefs on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Law. Association, one in the copyright infringement class action Reed Elsevier, Inc., et al. v. Muchnick, et al., Civ. No. 08-103 and the other in the landmark trademark dilution case Moseley v. V Secret Catalog, Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003).

• Developer of first Intellectual Property Drafting seminar course offered at the University of Kentucky College of Law, taught as an adjunct professor and served as an Adjunct Professor of Advanced Trademark Law at George Mason University Law Center in Arlington, Virginia.