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Christina Frangiosa

Member

Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot, LLC

Christina Frangiosais a a Member with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot, LLC, where she counsels clients across various industries about intellectual property and technology law. Her combined litigation and transactional practice concentrates on copyright and trademark advisory services (search and clerance, application prosecution and maintenance, and use in commerce), counterfeiting, infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, trade secrets, licensing, and policy development.

Chris’s experience ranges from educating clients about protecting their copyright, trademark, and trade secret rights, to negotiating agreements to protect these rights, and finally, to litigating and resolving their enforcement claims or defending against claims filed by others. She has appeared in state and federal courts on behalf of her clients and manages their trademark portfolios before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and represents them in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).  Her clients have included advertising companies, authors, computer software developers, consulting firms, construction and building companies, educational organizations, entertainment-related companies, entrepreneurs, insurance companies, manufacturers, music groups, nonprofit organizations, consumer retail establishments, service companies, and website developers.

Chris is also very active in the legal community, serving in many key leadership roles of the American Bar Association’s Section of Intellectual Property Law, providing legal commentary on IP-related issues in the mainstream media, authoring articles, leading CLE sessions, and serving as the publisher of the Privacy and IP Law Blog, which has addressed recent developments in trademark, copyright, computer, data security, and privacy law for the past 13 years.

Recent Articles by Christina Frangiosa

Protecting Creative Works After Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com

In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court finally unequivocally answered the question about whether copyright owners need to receive a Registration Certificate from the Copyright Office before filing suit for infringement and thus resolved a difference of opinion among various regional circuit courts. (Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC. Since this decision was issued, federal district courts have cited it in at least 63 decisions. What should artists, writers, and businesses do now to protect their creative work? How should attorneys alter the standard advice they give their clients? Let’s start with a review of what the ruling actually says.