Garrison, Sean

Sean Garrison is a named partner with Bacal & Garrison Law Group, a Scottsdale, Arizona law firm that focuses in the areas of trademark and copyright law.  Sean attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated with distinction with a degree in Comparative Literature.  After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1992, he moved to Arizona to begin his law practice.  He has nearly 30 years of experience counselling and representing clients in numerous areas of intellectual property, with a focus in trademark law.  He handles litigation, clearance and prosecution, licensing, copyright, and other general IP matters. He is listed by the World Trademark Review in its WTR 1000 listing of the world’s leading trademark practitioners and has been named in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2007 in multiple categories, including Trademark Law and IP Litigation for which he was most recently named “Lawyer of the Year” for 2021.  He currently serves as the Chair of AIPLA’s Trademark Law Committee and is also active in the International Trademark Association.  Sean is the co-author of various publications, including the Arizona chapter of INTA’s U.S. State Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, the U.S. Trademark Registration chapter of INTA’s Trademark Administration publication, and Trade Marks 2021: USA (Law and Practice) published by Chambers and Partners.