Nick is recommended in World Trademark Review’s WTR1000 2020 edition as “one of the top trademark professionals in the world” with clients describing him as “extremely energetic and client focused, and top companies trust him unequivocally—and with good reason.”

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IAM Patent 1000 has described Mike as follows: “At trial, Abernathy is a compelling storyteller, but never strays from the substance of his case. He is not afraid to give clients hard advice, which has earned him longstanding relationships of trust.”

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Chair of the firm’s Trademark and Copyright practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Andrea combines a business lawyer’s pragmatism, a litigator’s perspective, and an immersive understanding of IP law to help a range of clients develop, manage, leverage, and enforce their trademark and copyright rights in the United States and abroad.

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The teams she leads assist clients with all aspects of brand creation and protection, including initial clearance, prosecution and registration, and where necessary, enforcement actions and litigation. Clients appreciate her practical and business-oriented approach to legal issues and her delivery of straightforward, actionable advice in situations involving gray areas or legal complexities.

Andrea has extensive experience in the protection and enforcement of trade dress, product configuration, and other non-traditional trademarks. She has appeared as lead counsel in hundreds of inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, where many of her cases have resulted in precedential opinions or decisions on issues of first impression.

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Clients rely on Nadya to provide efficient day-to-day responses and effective long-term management of their domestic and worldwide trademark portfolios. Nadya’s clients benefit from the invaluable perspective she gained as in-house counsel and from her deep knowledge of the food and beverage, pet food and product, and software product and service industries.

When her clients face a dispute over trademark use or ownership, Nadya draws on her extensive experience with trademark and copyright litigation, including resolution of countless matters in federal court, before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and similar international forums, under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy, and through skillful negotiation with opposing parties in private settlement and alternative dispute resolution forums.

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Jeff served as the chair of the firm’s Trademark Practice Group for over a decade, and prior to that served as head of the firm’s entire Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions Section, helping to build the firm’s trademark practice into one of the best in the country as recognized by World Trademark Review (2012-2025). Jeff focuses his practice on the legal aspects of brand management, including clearing their marks for use, registering those marks in the U.S. and abroad, managing domain name acquisitions, commercializing marks through licenses and merchandising agreements, assessing infringement risks, enforcing their trademark rights against others and defending them against allegations of infringement. A significant amount of Jeff’s time is spent on litigating oppositions and cancellations within the U.S. Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), where Jeff has repeatedly served as lead counsel for large brand owners such as AT&T and Halliburton.

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Joe’s cases have set key precedents in Internet law, from the Google Books case that laid the groundwork for today’s generative AI innovations to key cases establishing the boundaries of intermediary liability. In addition to representing their interests in the courtroom, Joe helps his clients navigate their thorniest product counseling puzzles to reduce the risk of litigation.

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Karen is the immediate past chair of the firm’s Trademark & Copyright Practice Group and now serves as the chair of Dinsmore’s IP Litigation & Enforcement Practice Group. She has represented her clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in nearly 65 federal court cases, has represented clients in numerous state court matters, and has handled nearly 300 matters for clients at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Karen has resolved countless enforcement matters and has led brand protection teams in protecting well-known brands against counterfeiters. Karen is the attorney of record on nearly 2,300 trademarks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and has lent her counsel to in-house trademark departments with Fortune 100 companies in connection with thousands more. She counsels clients on transactional and litigation matters involving all aspects of domestic and international trademark and branding matters, copyright, advertising, digital, licensing, promotions, and marketing matters. Karen also assists clients with all aspects of anti-counterfeiting matters involving investigation and pursuit of counterfeiters, and removal of counterfeit goods from the marketplace.

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