Jessica is senior counsel in the Intellectual Property practice group, specializing in the protection and enforcement of clients’ trademark, trade dress, and copyright rights. She advises clients on all aspects of branding, advertising, and enforcement strategies. She specializes in trademark counseling for clients in a wide variety of industries, including consumer home goods, food products, tobacco products, hospitality/restaurant services, online services. She works with domestic and international companies to register, maintain, protect and license trademarks, service marks, domain names and trade names, and assists clients with the development and implementation of brand management and enforcement programs. Jessica regularly reviews, analyzes and provides risk analysis for clients’ social media campaigns, websites and advertisements. She manages intellectual property policing and enforcement matters for numerous clients at all stages of such disputes, and her litigation experience includes cases in the areas of trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, copyright and patent law, in both federal court and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings. She also works with clients to structure licensing agreements to commercialize their intellectual property.
Jessica has extensive experience with internet-related issues, such as social media account disputes, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims and Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act claims. She regularly assists companies with domain name disputes, including ICANN disputes and Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution (UDRP) actions.
Jessica received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Political Science from Emory University. She then received her Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she acted as a key research assistant in the Institute for Science, Law and Technology.
Jessica is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the JUF Young Lawyers Society.
Jessica has been listed as a Rising Star in the 2016-2018 editions of Illinois Super Lawyers.