The International Trademark Association (INTA) will present Sideman & Bancroft LLP accomplice Kelly McCarthy with the 2009 Volunteer Service Award for the Advancement of the Association at its anniversary Leadership Meeting on Nov. 11. One of just eight recipients, the accolade recognizes McCarthy for her six years of committed advance account to the alignment and its cause. She is a affiliate of INTA’s Academics Subcommittee of the Membership Services Committee and serves as armchair of the Student Membership Project Team.
“It is a amazing account to be accustomed by INTA, one of the a lot of admired able associations in the all-around brand community,” said Ellen Kahn, Sideman & Bancroft’s managing partner. “Kelly is a abundant aptitude in this evolving across of law, and her accord in announcement and advancing brand rights alongside some of the added top aptitude in the acreage is a abundant acquaintance that will abide to account Kelly and her audience for years to come.”
As a accomplice at Sideman & Bancroft, McCarthy focuses her convenance on casting aegis issues and brand and absorb portfolio management. She advises individuals and accessible and private, calm and all-embracing companies on a advanced ambit of issues, including artefact and accumulated name selection, brand availability and clearance, common branding strategies and case of U.S. brand applications. McCarthy aswell counsels audience in issues apropos to bookish acreage and bartering transactions. Before abutting Sideman & Bancroft, she was Of Counsel at Tomlinson Zisko LLP.
McCarthy serves on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Intellectual Property Association and is the columnist of “Enabling American High-Tech Companies to Protect Their Secrets Abroad: A Comparative Analysis of Irish and American Trade Secret Regulation,” appear in the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review.
In accession to volunteering with INTA, McCarthy is an breath fundraiser for the Peninsula Humane Society/SPCA in San Mateo, Calif. and is a affiliate of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF). She becoming her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2001) and her B.A., cum laude, from Loyola Marymount University (1998).
INTA is a not-for-profit associates affiliation of added than 5,900 brand owners and professionals, from added than 190 countries, committed to the abutment and advance of trademarks and accompanying bookish property.
Founded in San Francisco in 1978, Sideman & Bancroft LLP specializes in business crimes defense, tax litigation, noncombatant litigation, ancestors law, bookish acreage affairs and litigation, absolute estate, business affairs and abundance preservation. On the net: www.sideman.com.
Contact:
Traci Stuart
Blattel Communications
415.397.4811
traci@blattel.com
Ellen Kahn, Managing Partner
Sideman & Bancroft LLP
415.392.1960
ekahn@sideman.com
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