Protecting IP Rights in the Food and Beverage Industry

Ms. Remore handles a wide range of intellectual property matters, including litigation, enforcement, counseling, licensing and prosecution of trademark and copyright applications. A substantial portion of her practice involves litigation of trademark registration disputes before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board. Her significant intellectual property prosecution experience includes conducting trademark clearance searches, guiding trademark and copyright applications from application to registration, preparing responses to Office Actions and preparing renewal, maintenance and intent to use filings with the USPTO.

Ms. Torres concentrates her practice in intellectual property, particularly the prosecution and litigation of trademarks in the U.S. and internationally. She helps clients both large and small build and protect their trademark portfolios around the world, performing trademark clearance searches (including for pharmaceutical brand and generic names), advising on filing and maintaining applications as well as proper trademark use, drafting license agreements, coexistence agreements, and consents, overcoming USPTO refusals of all types, conducting IP diligence for merger and acquisition transactions and drafting and filing resulting assignment documents, conducting brand policing and diligence into potential infringement, litigating and defending oppositions and cancellations before the USPTO TTAB and litigating and defending federal trademark and unfair competition infringement actions. In addition, Ms. Torres provides services in matters dealing with copyright, such as advice on filing copyright applications, fair use issues, publishing agreements and licensing, as well as litigating and defending copyright infringement actions in federal court.

Ms. Bhalani handles all aspects of trademark prosecution, including clearance searches, applications and renewals, and provides domestic and international intellectual property strategy planning. She also researches and drafts responses to Examiners' Office Actions in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In addition, Ms. Bhalani  has experience drafting, structuring and negotiating numerous licensing, co-existence, non-disclosure and asset purchase agreements.