Color Marks and Brand Strategy: Proving Distinctiveness, Demonstrating Mark is Not Functional

Mr. Gazal focuses his practice on trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution, enforcement, and litigation. Prior to joining Kelly IP, he gained extensive experience in IP matters as an intern in NPR’s Office of General Counsel, as a law clerk for the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies, and as a law clerk for an IP litigation firm in D.C.

Mr. Litowitz has over 30 years of experience in litigating patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights before U.S. district courts, the ITC, and the TTAB. He has extensive experience leading and managing a range of litigations on such diverse subjects as pharmaceuticals, healthcare products, designs, product configurations, words, symbols, golf courses, and books.

Ms. Parker focuses her practice on trademark litigation before the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Following law school, she gained several years of litigation experience as a judicial law clerk for a Utah Supreme Court Justice, a federal district court judge at the District of Utah, and a federal district court magistrate judge at the Western District of Washington.