Courtney Sarnow is a partner in the Atlanta office of Culhane Meadows with over twenty five years of experience in a broad-based transactional practice with a specific focus on intellectual property and technology.
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A company’s name and logo can be among its most important assets, and this makes protecting those potential trademarks of primary importance. Understanding what to protect and how to protect it will figure prominently in the skills and knowledge you need to guide your clients, whether they are a startup or a well-established entity. This seminar will help new attorneys and non-specialists understand and master the federal trademark process so that they can advise their clients about Trademarks and successfully guide them through the registration process.
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Courtney Sarnow | Culhane Haughian & Walsh PLLC
Courtney Sarnow is a partner in the Atlanta office of Culhane Meadows with over twenty five years of experience in a broad-based transactional practice with a specific focus on intellectual property and technology. She has developed a distinctly creative and problem solving approach to address client plans and issues. As a young attorney, Ms. Sarnow learned that focusing on what a client can’t do and shouldn’t do is unnecessarily limiting and seldom helps the client maximize corporate opportunities. Her approach of looking for ways to accomplish corporate goals within an informed legal framework is more valuable for growth focused, technology forward companies than a stereotypical corporate counsel who instinctively thwarts innovation.
Early in her career with Dow, Lohnes & Albertson in Atlanta, she worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and in IP Licensing with traditional clients, as well as some unusual NASCAR and Professional Bull Rider representation thrown in from time to time. This gave her an appreciation for creative clients. After a sojourn in Philadelphia at Temple University as a Teaching Fellow earning an LLM in Law Teaching and studying developing issues in computer law and software licensing, she returned to Atlanta to teach as an Adjunct at Emory Law and develop a practice focused on intellectual property protection and general corporate strategies for artists, inventers, and innovative entrepreneurial ventures.
I. What is a Trademark? What can be Registered and Protected – and What Cannot | 11:00am – 11:30am
II. What are the Elements of a Successful Application? | 11:30am – 12:00pm
Break | 12:00pm – 12:10pm
III. What are Some Common Errors and Pitfalls of the Registration Process? | 12:10pm – 12:40pm
IV. How to Avoid Likelihood of Confusion (Section 2(d)) Failures | 12:40pm – 1:10pm
only $395 yearly
only $395 yearly