Virginia Wolk Marino

Virginia Marino is a Partner in Crowell & Moring’s Intellectual Property practice and based in the Chicago office. She focuses her practice on all aspects of domestic and global brand protection, copyright, and unfair competition law. Virginia has extensive experience clearing pharmaceutical brand names for various large and mid-sized pharmaceutical companies, as well as trademark prosecution, enforcement, and counseling experience in the life sciences field.

Virginia’s trademark prosecution and counseling practice includes the acquisition, maintenance, licensing, enforcement, and transfer of intellectual property with an emphasis on the selection and clearance of trademarks. She partners with her large and small clients to develop, maintain, and enforce their global trademark portfolios.

As a litigator, Virginia represents clients in civil litigation in federal district court and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) oppositions and cancellation actions, and has extensive experience with domain name disputes under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy. She regularly assists clients with online intellectual property protection, including web-based trademark protection and vigilance. Virginia also has extensive in-house experience, as she was seconded to Accenture as in-house trademark counsel for over a year.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Virginia was a shareholder at Brinks Gilson & Lione.