Chris provides strategic legal guidance on a variety of intellectual property matters such as the creation, protection, enforcement, and defense of trademarks, trade dress, copyrights and trade secrets.

He also provides legal counsel to clients on e-commerce and domain name issues, and represents clients in intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution.

Chris handles trademark prosecution matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and regularly works with both U.S. clients in expanding their trademark rights abroad and international clients seeking protection in the U.S. market. He manages multiple U.S. and international trademark portfolios and has a particular niche in counseling both individual and corporate clients in risk assessment and trademark adoption and clearance for branding, rebranding, and new product or service launches. He works with clients developing cost effective and successful trademark enforcement strategies. Chris also resolves disputes and advocates for clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and when the situation requires, before U.S. District Courts.

Representative clients have included those in a broad range of industries — software, publishing, life sciences and pharmaceutical, alcohol and tobacco, entertainment, consumer and commercial products, and Internet/e-commerce businesses.