Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Intellectual Property
• Emerging Business

Representative Clients

• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Pan Am Systems, Inc.
• Vivus, Inc.
• Active Interest Media, Inc.
• Intermedia Outdoors

Prominent Assignments

• Domestic and foreign trademarks, including trademark prosecution, portfolio management, and availability counseling
• Copyright, advertising, unfair competition, consumer protection, and Internet law counseling
• Licensing of trademarks, copyrights and publicity rights
• Counseling on intellectual property aspects of transactions
• Litigation of trademark, copyright, unfair competition and Internet law matters
• Developed an innovative brand ownership structure for a leading global consumer electronics company
• Directed the worldwide trademark filing program for a client's $100 million campaign to establish and build its key brands
• Negotiated trademark aspects of a $117.5 million purchase from bankruptcy of the assets of an internationally known athletic shoe company
• Advised an innovative Internet media company concerning unsettled business-critical copyright issues
• Supervised the acquisition by a leading toy company of a portfolio of classic computer game trademarks and developed strategies to minimize the vulnerability of the acquired rights

Education

• J.D., University of Chicago, 1993
  - Associate Articles Editor, University of Chicago Legal Forum
• Master of Music in Clarinet Performance, University of Southern California, 1980
  - Sole Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Award
• B.A. in Philosophy (cum laude), Yale University, 1977

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 2006
• California, 1995
• Illinois, 1993

Professional and Community Involvement

• Vice Chair, International Trademark Association (INTA) Emerging Issues Committee, 2008-present
• Subcommittee Chair, INTA Emerging Issues Committee, Fair Use and Other Boundaries Subcommittee, 2006-2007 (Subcommittee Member, 2004-2005)
• Member, INTA Special Committee for the Internet, 1999-2000
• INTA Editorial Board for the Trademark Reporter, 1996-1999

Publications and Presentations

• Discussion Facilitator, "Madrid Protocol - a U.S. Perspective," INTA Annual Meeting, May 2006
• Speaker, "Trademark Issues in Advertising," April 2006
• Speaker, "IP Issues in Transactions," March 2006
• Speaker, "Internet Trademark Issues," February 2005
• Discussion Facilitator, "Hot Issues in Trademark Law," INTA Annual Meeting, May 2004
• Discussion Facilitator, "Conducting a Trademark Audit," INTA Annual Meeting, May 2002