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Amy E. Carroll is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. Amy’s practice focuses on assisting clients with the selection, protection and management of domestic and international brands and brand portfolios, advising clients on license and services agreements involving intellectual property and conducting intellectual property due diligence and risk assessment in connection with corporate transactions.
Areas of Concentration. Amy concentrates her practice on domestic and foreign trademark prosecution, trademark opposition and cancelation proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, domain name protection, advertising and marketing approvals and advising clients on games of chance and sweepstakes. She has considerable experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating intellectual property agreements, namely, software licenses, escrow and maintenance agreements, website development agreements and trademark, copyright and patent licenses. Amy also counsels clients with respect to work for hire and confidentiality arrangements and regularly conducts intellectual property audits and website audits, including drafting terms and conditions of website use and counseling on right of publicity and privacy issues in the online context.
Representative Clients and Engagements. Amy has assisted an imaging software developer in negotiating several sophisticated licensing and OEM distribution arrangements with companies such as Olympus and Nikon. She has also counseled a Montreal-based shoe designer with respect to trademark/trade dress/design patent infringement issues, product development issues, marketing and overall brand management strategies. Recently, Amy took the lead role in the group’s management of the U.S. and international trademark portfolios of a renown manufacturer of premium skin and hair care products.
Litigation. Amy has worked on several trade dress infringement cases that were successfully settled in the preliminary stages of litigation (Aldo v. Louis Vuitton; Aldo v. Global Brand Marketing). In addition, Amy is currently handling several proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on behalf of clients based in the United States and the United Kingdom .
Publications and Lectures. Amy is the author of Protecting Artistic Expression in Useful Articles: A Copyright Perspective, prepared for the ABA/IPL Summer 2002 Intellectual Property Conference, and Not Always the Best Medicine: The Global Impact of U.S. Patent Law, published in the August 1995 issue of The American University Law Review. She spoke on Protecting Artistic Expression in Useful Articles: A Copyright Law Perspective at the ABA/IPL Summer 2002 Intellectual Property Law Conference.
In General. Amy received her bachelor's degree from the University of California at San Diego in 1992 and her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 1996. While at American University, she served as a federal circuit editor of The American University Law Review and participated in the Concours René Cassin, a French-language international moot court competition on human rights in Strasbourg, France. While in law school, Amy was also employed by the Business and Patent Law Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked on issues related to technology transfer. Immediately before joining Drinker Biddle in 1998, Amy worked in the intellectual property group of another general practice law firm in Washington, D.C. Amy serves on the International Trademark Association’s North American Parallel Imports Subcommittee and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Intellectual Property. | 