Julie advises clients on patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secret matters across diverse industries, such as biotech, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, software and various consumer products.

Julie’s specialty is being the outside “inside” counsel to her clients that do not have in-house counsel, or do not have IP-focused in-house counsel. To provide her clients a well-rounded IP service, her practice is very diverse and includes prosecution of patents and trademarks, counseling in all areas of IP (including advising on branding, marketing, websites, domain names, conducting IP audits and competitive analyses and preparing IP opinions), monitoring the client’s IP, preparing IP-related agreements, assisting with corporate transactions involving IP rights, enforcing IP rights, and defending against allegations of IP infringement and trade secret misappropriation. She helps clients protect their IP through strategic planning, securing patents, trademarks, and copyright registrations and enforcing rights both in and out of the court. Her intellectual property litigation practice includes copyright, trademark, patent, trade dress infringement and trade secret misappropriation. Julie represents clients in all stages of IP enforcement and defense, including preparing and responding to cease-and-desist letters, injunctions, discovery, trials, appeals, settlements, mediation and arbitration. Julie has IP litigation experience in district courts across the U.S., the Federal Circuit and in proceedings before the International Trade Commission.

Julie is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience before the USPTO and international bodies. That experience includes inter partes review, ex parte reexamination, third-party submission, trademark letters of protest, and trademark cancellation and opposition proceedings, as well as various foreign opposition proceedings where she works closely with her established network of foreign counsel. Julie also has a substantial UDRP practice.

For the past several years, Julie has also served as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she co-teaches the patent prosecution and litigation section of the IP Strategies lecture.