Anne E. Yates

Associate

Atlanta
Business Phone: 404.885.3697
Business Fax: 404.962.6836

anne.yates@troutmansanders.com

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Anne focuses her intellectual property practice on trademark and copyright matters. Specifically, her practice includes counseling clients regarding state, federal, and international trademark and service mark prosecution, registration, maintenance, and enforcement; copyright prosecution, registration, maintenance, and enforcement; intellectual property licensing; and Internet trademark and copyright protection issues.

Representative Experience
Trademarks: Counseling on aspects of state, federal, and international trademark registration, protection, and infringement matters. Prosecution of trademark and service mark applications. Involved in infringement conflicts and resolutions.

Web Sites: Removal of copyright infringing materials through actions against service providers.

Copyrights: Prosecution, registration, maintenance, and enforcement of copyrights.

Sweepstakes: Sweepstakes and contest advice, bonding, and registration.

Sample clients include Chick-fil-A, Inc., Mizuno USA, Inc., Georgia Power, The Southern Company, Chateau Elan, Dollar General Corporation, and Mohawk Carpet Corporation

Publications
Co-editor, Intellectual Property & the Law Newsletter
Co-author, "Recent Developments in Trademark Law," sponsored by ICLE in Georgia, 2002 and 2003
Fair Use or Fat Chance: Dispelling the Fair use Myth in Educational Settings
Co-author, Connecting the Dots: Strategies for Effective Domain Name Portfolio Management

Other Distinctions
American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence, Spring 2003

Work Experience
Associate, Troutman Sanders LLP, 2003-present
Summer Associate, Troutman Sanders LLP, Summer 2002
Bankruptcy Paralegal, Law Office of Malcolm DeCelle, Jr., 1998-2000
Intellectual Property Paralegal, United Parcel Service, Summer 1997

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Education

  • Franklin Pierce Law Center, J.D., 2003
  • Georgia State University, B.A., 1997


Bar Admissions

  • 2003 Georgia


Memberships

  • American Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section)
  • Atlanta Executive Network
  • Brief Judge, Saul Lefkowitz National Moot Court Competition, sponsored by Brand Names Education Foundation, 2004
  • Franklin Pierce Law Center Admission Committee, member, 2001-2002
  • Franklin Pierce Law Center Board of Trustees, Student Representative, 2002-2003
  • Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Summer Institute, Summer 2001
    Franklin Pierce Law Center Moot Court Board, President, 2002-2003
  • Franklin Pierce Law Center Student Bar Association, President, 2002-2003
    Franklin Pierce Law Center Student Intellectual Property Law Association, member, 2000-2003
  • State Bar of Georgia, Intellectual Property Section
  • Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing (2001-2002) and Trademarks (Fall 2002)
    2002 Saul Lefkowitz National Trademark Law Moot Court Competition, Second Place, East RegionStudent
  • Co-speaker for 2003 Commencement- Franklin Pierce Law Center

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