Marie Lavalleye has more than 30 years of experience advising clients on their most valuable brands and other intellectual property. She provides broad-based global IP counseling to companies in the financial services, life sciences, publishing, sports, technology, and telecommunications industries. She designs and manages global trademark clearance, registration, enforcement, and portfolio strategies that align with her clients' business goals.
Marie has deep expertise in drafting and negotiating complex IP and commercial agreements, including licenses, coexistence and consent agreements, assignments, and security interest agreements and releases. In addition, Marie frequently serves as the IP lead on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings involving high-value trademark portfolios and other IP. In that role, she conducts IP due diligence and negotiates the IP provisions of deal agreements for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.
In contested matters, Marie represents clients in trademark oppositions and cancellation actions as well as court proceedings involving trademark infringement, counterfeiting, unfair competition, false advertising, and right of publicity claims. She has secured highly favorable outcomes before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) for leading pharmaceutical companies, a global media and publishing brand, a financial services consultancy, and an international spirits producer. She has also won appeals overturning unfavorable TTAB decisions.
Clients value Marie for her practical, creative solutions and her responsiveness. They often get the advice they need in a single call.
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