Rebecca Liebowitz
Rebecca advises clients on worldwide intellectual property issues, including trademark, trade dress, and copyright protection and enforcement, and brand rollouts. She routinely prepares and prosecutes applications and represents clients in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). Her work also includes preparing brand availability opinions and license agreements, managing online brand protection programs (including registering and policing domain names), working with Customs and Border Protection to prevent infringing goods from entering the country, conducting intellectual property due diligence audits, and working alongside IP litigators at all stages of disputes. She regularly develops and provides training to in-house legal and brand development teams on creating and protecting brand assets.
Related Practices
Experience
Representative Matters
- Provides worldwide counseling and enforcement to one of the world’s most famous brands regarding IP clearance, prosecution, enforcement, domain name work, and licensing deals
- Represents a client in global counseling and enforcement of a family of brands in all aspects of trademark, advertising, domain name, copyright, licensing, and enforcement issues. This work also includes advising on two significant acquisitions significantly expanding the family of brands
- Manages IP enforcement efforts and trademark clearance and prosecution, both in the U.S. and abroad, for a health and wellness brand. Represents the company in TTAB matters and federal litigation, to both enforce and defend the brand
- Negotiated a worldwide settlement agreement to resolve a dispute between two parties using nearly identical marks, one in connection with golfing goods/services and the other in connection with driving goods/services
- Defended a restaurant against numerous parties claiming earlier rights, with favorable results
- Assisted a client with high-dollar licensing transactions involving major TV show names
- Obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of VBrick Systems, Inc. in a trademark infringement action brought by Rev.com, Inc. in the Northern District of California, enabling VBrick to continue using its mark. (Rev.com, Inc. v. VBrick Systems, Inc.)
Insights
Credentials
Education
- J.D. George Mason University School of Law 2007
Publications editor, George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal
George Mason University Writing Fellow
- M.A. Museum Studies The George Washington University 2003
- B.A. magna cum laude American University 1999
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Member, American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
- Member, District of Columbia Bar, Intellectual Property Section
- Member, Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Member, International Trademark Association, Trademark Reporter Committee, Editorial Board Subcommittee, 2010 - 2014
- Member, U.S. Subcommittee of the Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee, 2014 - 2018
- Member, U.S. Subcommittee of the Non-Traditional Marks Committee, 2018 - 2020
Recognition
- Expert Guides, Rising Star, 2015 – 2018
- Chambers USA
- Up and Coming, Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets, Washington, DC, 2018 – 2021
- Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets, Washington, DC, 2022 – 2023
- Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, Washington, DC, 2016 – 2018
- World Trademark Review, WTR 1000, Prosecution and Strategy, 2015 – 2023
- Legal 500
- Media, technology and telecoms - Technology: transactions, 2022
- Trademarks: Non-Contentious, 2015
- Managing Intellectual Property, IP Star, 2022