Francie R. Gorowitz, Partner

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Education and Background:

• State University of New York at Cortland - B.A. 1977 - Magna Cum Laude
• Albany Law School of Union University - J.D. 1980
• United States Patent & Trademark Office - Trademark Examining Attorney 1980-1986
  • Received U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Metal and Certificates of Recognition for Outstanding Performance

Admissions and Affiliations:

• Admitted to bar, 1981 - New York; 1986 - California, U.S. District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

• International Trademark Association, Intellectual Property Law Association,
• Century City Bar Association - Board of Governors - 2000-present; Co-Chair Intellectual Property Law Section 2005-present; Treasurer - 2008-2009; Secretary - 2009-2010

Speeches and Publications:

• Preparing, Filing, and Prosecuting Trademark Applications, LAIPLA (September 1993);
• Trademark Trial & Appeal Board Practice - A Practitioner's Perspective, presented with Chief Trademark Judge J. David Sams, LAIPLA (December 1993);
• Trademark Searching, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section (Spring 1994);
• Getting Your Trademark To Work For You, Branding Energy Conference, Denver, Colorado (October 1996);
• Presentation of Evidence, Moderator, INTA TTAB Practices for Novices, Washington, D.C. (September 17, 1998);
• Preparing Trademark Applications for Filing, LAIPLA's Washington and the West Seminar (January 24, 2000);
• U.S. Trademark Applications, Century City Bar Association (CCBA) (May 24, 2000);
• IP Internet Issues," Los Angeles County Bar Association (June 15, 2000);
• Making Your Case," presented at Practicing Law Institute seminar,
• Navigating Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice, San Francisco, California (February 1-2, 2001);
• U.S. Trademark Filing Basics and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice,  presented at Lorman Education Seminars' "Trademark Basics Seminar," Los Angeles, California (March 23, 2001); "
• Nuts and Bolts of Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice, CCBA, Los Angeles, California (May 30, 2001);
• Updates in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice," for American Intellectual Property Law Association's "Road Show," Los Angeles, California (June 22, 2001);
• "International Trademark Protection" -O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Los Angeles, CA June 2003;
• Madrid Protocol - A U.S. Prospective, Century City Bar Association (September 24, 2004)
• Madrid Protocol Seminar, International Trademark Association (December 8, 2003)
• Managing Your Intellectual Property Assets, PLI Intellectual Property Business Seminar (March 9-10, 2004)
• United States Patent & Trademark Office Practice
  • USC Law School (April 12, 2004 and April 5, 2005)
  • UCLA Law School (October 6, 2006 and October 1, 2007)

• Updates in Trademark Trial & Appeal Board and Federal Circuit law, Century City Bar Association (March 2006)
• Intellectual Property Issues in Negotiating Deals and Structuring Transactions - CEB (April and May 2006)
• The Proper Care and Feeding of Trademarks - Article appeared in the November 2006 issue of Scribe (the publication of the Software Counsel) and in the February 2007 issue of The Century City Lawyer (the publication of the Century City Bar Association)

Practice Areas:

• Intellectual Property
  • Trademarks
  • Copyrights
  • Domain Names
  • Licensing