Some highlights from a very busy year at our firm:
- Working with many new pro bono veteran entrepreneur clients
- Mentoring interns and law clerks from several law schools
- Quoted in numerous publications
- Presenting webinars for
- Planning and organizing the USPTO Trademark Day event for the American Bar Association
- Teaching two high school classes in Springfield, Virginia about trademarks and intellectual property
- Attending INTA in Dallas, Texas and co-hosting the annual Meet the Bloggers party
- Filing more than 240 new trademark applications for clients in the US
- Receiving more than 190 new trademark registrations for clients in the US
- Obtaining registration of ERIK PELTON® and SOFTMWARE® trademarks
- Launching sofTMware beta
- Launching Tuesday Trademark TipSM newsletter
- Participating in Fashion Law Week at Howard University
- Guest lecturing a law school trademark class at Catholic University
- Sending EMP&A sunflower seed packets and coffee mugs to some our favority clients
- Moderated a panel on Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issues at the ABA-IPL spring conference
- Some fun non-traditional registrations received for clients:
- Worked with local clients in Falls Church, Virginia like Dancing Mind, Sisslers Stone, Michael and Sons, Burger 7, Oh Mercy!, Bikenetic and Coleman Power Sports
- Registered marks for clients from around the world, including Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Switzerland
- Working to handle the trademarks of several other law firms
- Receiving a trademark registration for a client that was filed more than 9 years earlier, in 2004
- Appeared on the Washington Business Report television show to discuss The Little City® brand and trademark
- Retained as an expert in a trademark dispute
- Overcame many substantive refusals of trademark applications
- Resolved many disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, including disputes with the New England Patriots and the band Twisted Sister
- and much more….
2013 was a great year, and we can’t wait to see what 2014 has in store!
