Gianna E. Cricco-Lizza
Partner
Gianna has extensive experience counseling clients on claims relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, anti-counterfeiting, unfair competition, contracts, and business torts. Her clients span a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, streaming and social media, luxury goods, consumer products, and entertainment.
Before entering private practice at a law firm in New Jersey, Gianna clerked for U.S. District Judge Mary L. Cooper in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. While pursuing her law degree, she served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Cathy L. Waldor of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Related Practices
Experience
Experience
Representative Matters
- Serving as litigation counsel for a U.S. consumer products company in a trademark infringement matter, including obtaining a temporary restraining order in district court to prohibit ongoing infringement of client’s trademarks
- Serving as litigation counsel for a U.S. consumer product manufacturer in a trademark infringement lawsuit related to a popular brand of spray tanning products and services
- Served as litigation counsel for a U.S. consumer products company in multi-tribunal infringement actions at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) and federal district courts across the country to enforce patents
- Represented a telecommunications technology patentee-plaintiff in a jury trial, resulting in a verdict including willful infringement and post-trial motions awarding enhanced damages and upholding the findings of infringement, patent validity, and willfulness
- Served as litigation counsel for a U.S. consumer products company in an anti-counterfeiting matter, including obtaining an ex parte seizure order in district court to obtain and successfully execute seizure on the infringer’s facilities
- Served as litigation counsel for a software company in a licensing dispute
- Served as litigation counsel for streaming media companies in patent litigation
Insights
Insights
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- J.D. magna cum laude Seton Hall University School of Law 2012
- Order of the Coif
- Symposium editor, Seton Hall Law Review, 2011 - 2012
- Co-chair, Interscholastic Moot Court Board, 2011 - 2012
- Judicial extern, the Honorable Cathy L. Waldor, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- B.A. Columbia University 2008
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Clerk Experience
- The Honorable Mary L. Cooper U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Master, intellectual property and federal practice, John C. Lifland American Inn of Court
Recognition
Recognition
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, New York Metro, 2016 – 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2021 – 2022, 2024 – 2025
Community
Community
Volunteerism
- Columbia College, Class of 2008 Reunion Committee
- Member, Columbia University Alumni Representative Committee (interviews prospective students for admissions)
- Alumni coach, Seton Hall Interscholastic Moot Court Board