Crowell & Moring
Firm overview:
Crowell & Moring's global trademark practice represents clients from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups across industry sectors. The team handles all aspects of trademark law, from managing worldwide trademark portfolios to litigating cases and coordinating all other trademark enforcement activities. The firm’s lawyers have a niche in protecting clients’ trademarks against genericide and have a long history of protecting their non-traditional marks.
Team overview:
Litigator Andrew Avsec (Recommended, Contentious, and Notable, Non-Contentious) is the managing partner of the Chicago office. He represents clients in district court litigation, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) oppositions and cancellation actions, and arbitration proceedings. Avsec has led global disputes across a number of jurisdictions. Clients note his “deep expertise, strategic approach and timely advice” on trademarks and trade secrets litigation.
Trial lawyers Kent Goss and Valerie Goo (both Recommended, Contentious) are deemed “very good trademark litigators” by a peer firm. “Having worked on the same and opposite sides of both, they have impressed us as having a good knowledge of the field and exhibit top quality ethics and professionalism”.
