Trademark Searching: Navigating & Understanding the USPTO’s Trademark Search System
CLE program hosted by the IP Section
Start Date - End Date
September 12, 2024
Registration Deadline
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Trademark Searching: Navigating & Understanding the USPTO's Trademark Search System
Program Description: Trademark Searching: Navigating & Understanding the USPTO's Trademark Search System is a comprehensive program designed to demystify the process of trademark searching within the United States Patent and Trademark Office database. This program provides both a basic understanding of how to use the Trademark Search System, as well as an in-depth look at the intricacies of the system. Ideal for both business owners and legal professionals alike, this program provides tips and tricks to make trademark searching as easy as it was with TESS.
Speaker Bios:
Gabriele Fougner: Gabi is an associate at Saunders & Silverstein LLP, where her practice focuses on providing strategic counsel to clients to establish and defend brand assets including trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, and domain names. Gabi's passion is helping her clients protect the creative ventures they have spent their time building. Gabi counsels clients across a wide range of industries including the fashion, health, industrial, gaming, and beverage industries.
Gabi advises clients all over the world in the exploitation of their brands by developing and executing complex trademark prosecution strategies and obtaining and maintaining U.S. and foreign trademark protection, including prosecuting trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, working with trademark counsel worldwide to register foreign trademarks, and analyzing the availability of marks for use and registration.
In addition, Gabi develops and implements strategies to enforce and defend intellectual property assets. She negotiates resolutions and litigates intellectual property disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in opposition and cancellation proceedings and in federal court. Gabi's practice also includes the negotiation and preparation of trademark and copyright assignments, licenses, and consent and coexistence agreements.
Gabi has been praised by clients as being easy to work with, creative, and understanding of the language of business.
Gabi graduated from the New York Law School's Two-Year Honors Program in December 2019, where she focused her studies on intellectual property law and graduated cum laude and salutatorian of her class. Gabi earned her J.D. from New York Law, as well as the Innovation Center for Law and Technology's Intellectual Property Law Certificate and Fashion Law Certificate, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Skills Program's ADR Certificate. Gabi also served on The New York Law School Law Review and Media, Entertainment, and Fashion Law Association. During law school, Gabi worked as a judicial intern at the New York State Unified Court System for the Honorable Alexander Tisch and as a fashion law intern on the Supreme Court case Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Grp., Inc., 140 S. Ct. 1589 (2020). Before attending law school, Gabi received a B.A. in Political Science with a Film and Television concentration from Boston University.
Gabi is a native of California now living in the mountains of Colorado, speaks both English and American Sign Language fluently, as well as Swedish proficiently.
Sarah Leighton: Sarah graduated from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law in 2020, where she worked in the school's Intellectual Property and Transaction Clinic. She earned her J.D., the Franklin Pierce Intellectual Property Law Certificate, and Entertainment Law Certificate from UNH Law. Sarah also served as the Lead Articles Editor of IDEA: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property.
Registration Fees
| Price Description | Amount |
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| CBA IP Section Member | $0.00 |
| Non-Member | $10.00 |
| Student | $0.00 |
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