Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP

Attorneys

PARTNER
Borland, Elizabeth404-815-3645Atlanta
Holland, Christopher404-815-3770Atlanta
Klemmer, Joyce404-815-3511Atlanta
Lischer, Dale404-815-3741Atlanta
Lunsford III, J. Rodgers404-815-3628Atlanta
Makuch, Michael202-973-2616DC
Rodgers, Dennis202-973-2619DC
Veal, Robert404-815-3765Atlanta
Woldow, Scott202-973-2612DC
COUNSEL
Sundby, Suzannah202-263-4332DC
Weilacher, Robert404-815-3593Atlanta
ASSOCIATE
Hochgesang, Kerri404-815-3672Atlanta
Whitcomb, G. Todd904-598-6113Jacksonville
Williams, Todd404-815-3713Atlanta

Related Practice Areas

Trademark Law

Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP offers its clients extensive capabilities in the protection and enforcement of trademark rights.

This includes developing and maintaining extensive portfolios of trademark registrations, licensing trademark rights, policing the unauthorized use trademarks and litigating issues of trademark infringement and unfair competition. We help devise and institute protection and enforcement strategies that are tailored to our client’s business and the industries in which they compete.

We advise on the availability of trademarks and service marks, assist with corporate and product rebranding programs and prepare and file applications to register trademarks and service marks both domestically and around the world through our affiliations with trusted and vetted agents.

We litigate trademark and unfair competition disputes in state and federal courts as well as administrative proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the Untied States Patent and Trademark Office.

Our Trademark Group draws upon a wealth of experience both as private practitioners and as former examiners with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We count among our former members an Assistant Commissioner of Trademarks, a President of the International Trademark Association and a Chairman of the Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law of the American Bar Association. Our present members include a past Chairman of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the District of Columbia Bar, a past Chairperson of the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, three past Chairpersons of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of Georgia. In addition, the atttorneys in our Trademark Group are active with intellectual property organizations including International Trademark Association (INTA), Intellectual Property Owner’s Association (IPO), American Intellectual Property Association (AIPLA), and the Licensing Executives Society.

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