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Trademark and Trademark Ethics

Moderator: Kim Van Voorhis, Nike, Beaverton, OR

Trademark Expungement and Reexamination under the Trademark Modernization Act (TMA) - What We Have Learned in the First 10 Months
Stephanie H. Bald, Kelly IP, Washington DC

How the TMA Impacts the Filing, Maintaining, Defending, and Challenging of Trademark Applications and Registrations
Amy Cotton, USPTO Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy, Alexandria, VA (invited)

Ethics Update: Professional Responsibility and Practice before the USPTO in Trademark Matters
Will Covey, Deputy General Counsel and OED Director, Alexandria, VA

Speakers

• Van Voorhis, Kim

  Nike | Assistant General Counsel, Global IP LItigation

  Kim is Assistant General Counsel, Global IP Litigation & Director of IP Europe at Nike, Inc. She is a committed IP professional, bringing nearly 20 years of experience litigating, managing portfolios, and providing strategic counseling on all aspects of global intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, design, copyright and trade secrets, in both elite law firm and Fortune 100 corporate settings.
• Bald, Stephanie

  Kelly IP | Partner

  Stephanie Bald focuses her practice on trademark litigation, disputes, and strategic counseling. She represents clients in federal courts across the country and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). She also handles domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and has significant experience managing global trademark portfolios and advising clients on the selection, use, registration, enforcement, and licensing of trademarks.
• Cotton, Amy

  US Trademark Office | Acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy

  Amy Cotton is the acting Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy. In this role, Ms. Cotton oversees the Offices of Trademark Policy, Petitions, and ID-Class, as well as the Trademark Assistance Center, the Office of Trademark Quality Review and Training, the Trademark Law Library, Customer Experience, and Trademark Outreach.
• Covey, Will

  USPTO Office of Enrollment and Discipline | Deputy General Counsel and Director

  As Deputy General Counsel and Director for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED), Will Covey is responsible for ensuring that the nation's patent attorneys and agents are of good moral character and sufficiently knowledgeable to practice before the USPTO Mr. Covey's team of attorneys and other professionals develop and administer a registration examination designed to measure applicants' knowledge of patent law and practice. Successful applicants are registered to practice by OED. In addition, OED investigates complaints of unethical conduct made against individuals practicing patent or trademark law before the USPTO.