Lindsey Utrata advises clients across many consumer-facing industries, from personal care and food products, to fashion and luxury goods, as well as entertainment, hospitality, technology, and life sciences companies, on complex issues involving their global trademark portfolios, including brand management and brand enforcement.
She routinely counsels on:
Clearance opinions
Intellectual Property transactions, including as to assignments, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations
Online anti-counterfeiting and enforcement strategies
Opposition and cancellation actions
Settlement and coexistence agreements
Trademark licensing
Trademark registration programs
Lindsey is also actively involved with industry organizations, including serving on the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Commercialization of Brands Committee (2020-Present), as well as the New York Intellectual Property Law Association’s (NYIPLA) Trademark Law & Practice Committee (2021-Present, Co-Chair 2023-Present), and was previously a member of the New York City Bar Association’s (NYCBA) Trademarks & Unfair Competition Committee (2016-2019).
Lindsey previously worked in the trademark department and brand protection unit of Colgate-Palmolive Company, where she assisted with the management of the company’s global trademark portfolio and supported various anti-counterfeiting efforts.
Experience
Lindsey’s experience includes representing:
A major multinational consumer goods company with trademark clearance, filing, and portfolio maintenance, strategic brand enforcement, and advising on transactional matters, including as to licensing, acquisitions, spin-offs, and reorganizations of international household brands*
A major fashion label in successfully opposing registration of numerous potentially infringing trademarks in the course of policing its rights*
A prominent social media and image sharing company as to platform and brand expansion*
A major film studio with reclaiming a previously abandoned trademark registration, and stopping false association by trademark squatters*
An international hospitality chain with its global brand management and enforcement*
A leading life sciences company with multi-country reorganization, and establishing of internal and external copyright and brand management policies*
Latham's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice was honored for securing exceptional trial results this year, including a complete jury trial win for Sarepta Therapeutics and an ITC trial win for Netgear.
Lindsey Utrata brings significant trademark and brand management experience to Latham’s top-tier Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
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