Trademark Enforcement: Analyzing Claims, Crafting Cease and Desist Letters, Monitoring Marks, and More

Mr. Baird works with clients to address their most difficult trademark problems. He provides strategic guidance on trademark usage and clearance, branding strategies, domestic and worldwide portfolio management, litigation and enforcement, internet domain name and trademark disputes, licensing, and prosecution. His trademark and brand protection work has gained notoriety for the protection and registration of nontraditional trademarks, product configuration trademarks, and trade dress and product packaging trademarks.

Ms. Littman-Johnson focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation and enforcement. She has significant experience representing clients in federal courts throughout the United States and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Littman-Johnson's experience also includes representing clients in Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) proceedings, and protecting and enforcing clients’ intellectual property rights online and on social media. In addition to her intellectual property litigation practice, she advises on brand management and protection in the United States and globally, and on copyright development and registration.

Dean Grinvald is an internationally recognized intellectual property law scholar, whose research focuses on the enforcement of intellectual property law, and the potential negative impacts of related laws on small businesses and entrepreneurs. Her work has appeared in some of the nation’s leading law journals. Dean Grinvald’s most recent work focuses on the intersection of the “right to repair” and intellectual property law. Dean Grinvald has previously taught courses in Contracts, Copyright, International Intellectual Property, Negotiation, Trademark Law and Trademark Practice at her prior institutions, Suffolk Law and St. Louis University School of Law.