Fraud in Trademark Applications and Registrations: Proving or Defeating Allegations

For more than 38 years, Ms. Frandsen has guided clients not only through the core areas of trademark and copyright strategic counseling and portfolio management but also through the more complex areas of the practice, including enforcement before the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). Her in-depth knowledge of her clients’ businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to major corporations, enables her to support and advance their unique objectives and goals and has made her their go-to trademark lawyer. 

Ms. Grossberg leads Ice Miller’s Intellectual Property practice group and is an experienced intellectual property litigator, representing clients in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition matters in federal district and appellate courts, as well as in proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission (ITC). She works with clients to maximize the value of their intellectual property, with a focus on brand strategy, and has experience in trademark clearance, prosecution, global portfolio management and enforcement, and IP licensing and due diligence.

Ms. Lesser has represented trademark and copyright clients for more than 25 years, protecting and defending clients in the U.S. and internationally. Her clients include a wide array of companies in the consumer products, apparel, food and beverage, entertainment, pharmaceutical, media, and technical industries. Bridging litigation and transactional practices,Ms. Lesser supports technology and media clients on protection of their brands and creative content. She also works with clients on acquisition and commercialization of technologies, and on enforcement and defense of rights in federal court and administrative forums. As a trusted counselor and advisor, Ms. Lesser partners with her clients to achieve favorable results.

Ms. Lesser is a partner in Ice Miller’s Intellectual Property Group and the leader of the firm’s Advertising Group. She has more than two decades of experience as an IP counselor, and litigator, with a focus on trademarks, copyrights, marketing, advertising and publicity rights. Ms. Lesser litigates in federal courts throughout the country, and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau (NAD), and the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). As an internationally ranked trademark attorney, she handles all facets of U.S. and international trademark protection, from clearance to procurement, enforcement and defense of rights. Ms. Lesser is a go-to counselor for protection and defense of copyright matters in federal court and before the CCB. A skilled counselor and negotiator, she has negotiated complex license agreements and settlement agreements for companies as varied as consumer products goods, pharmaceutical companies, to industrial equipment, and social media companies.