Francie R. Gorowitz, Partner

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Francie R. Gorowitz is a partner in the firm’s intellectual property group.  Ms Gorowitz’ practice covers all aspects of trademark and copyright law, both domestic and international, including counseling, registration, assignments, due diligence, and licensing.

Ms. Gorowitz’s experience includes counseling clients and handling trademark, copyright, and Internet matters, including domain name disputes and ; prosecuting foreign and domestic trademark applications; negotiating and drafting settlement agreements; analyzing U.S. and international trademark availability searches and advising clients about issues of selection and availability of trademarks; drafting, reviewing, and recording licenses and assignments throughout the world; reviewing client advertising and packaging to insure compliance with trademark laws and regulatory requirements; and litigating before Trademark Trial and Appeal Boards and district courts.

Ms. Gorowitz began her career as a Trademark Examining Attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (1980-1986).

Illustrative Professional Experience

• Counseling clients and handling trademark, copyright, and Internet matters, including domain name disputes and infringement issues
• Prosecuting foreign and domestic trademark applications
• Negotiating and drafting settlement agreements
• Analyzing U.S. and international trademark availability searches and advising clients about issues of selection and availability of trademarks
• Drafting, reviewing, and recording licenses and assignments throughout the world
• Reviewing client advertising and packaging to insure compliance with trademark laws and regulatory requirements
• Litigating before Trademark Trial and Appeal Boards and district courts
   

Education

• State University of New York (B.A., magna cum laude, in Education 1977),
• Albany Law School of Union University (J.D. 1980
   

Professional Activities

• Admitted to Bar: 
  • California, 1986
  • New York, 1981
• Admitted to Practice:  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court, Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• Member:  Century City Bar Association,
  Board of Governors – since 2000, Vice President – 2011 – 2012, Treasurer – 2010 – 2011, Secretary – 2009 – 2010, Co-Chair Intellectual Property Section – since 2005,
  Intellectual Property Association,
  Los Angeles Copyright Society,
  International Trademark Association
  Co-Chair - Paralegal and Trademark Administrator Seminar and moderator of presentations on trademark searches and prosecution – Sept. 30, 1999 – Oct. 1, 1999
  Member – Meetings committee – 1998 - 2000
   

Speeches and Presentations

• 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)

Publication

• 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)
   

Honors

• “AV” rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Registry
• The U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (1985)
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Performance (1982-1986).
   

Practice Areas:

• Intellectual Property
• Trademarks
• Copyrights
• Domain Names
• Licensing
• Right of publicity
• Internet infringement issues