Speaker Profile: Ms. Susan Anne Russell

Race: Not Specified

Languages: English

Areas of Concentration: Intellectual Property

Publishing Experience

• More States Step Up to the Plate With New Legislation to Address Student Athlete Compensation and the NCAA Passes the Ball to Congress, IAM Sports Litigation Alert, February 2020
• Have Your Cake and Own it, Too: Trademark and Branding Best Practices and Takeaways from a Dispute between a King Cake Baker and its Brand Developer, Intellectual Property Magazine, October 2021
• File Your Patents & Trademarks NOW!, IPWatchdog®, May 2020
• Booking.com? Booking.yeah! Supreme Court Weighs In On Trademark Protection for Generic Terms Combined with Generic Top-Level Domains, JD Supra, July 2020
• Abitron Austria GmbH, et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. Brief amicus curiae of Intellectual Property Owners Association, submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, December 2022

Teaching / Speaking Experience

• Succeeding Together - The Importance of Supporting One Another Personally and Professionally: Conversation and Insight from Mallun Yen, ChIPs Co-Founder, Founder and Partner of Operator Collective, and IP Visionary, Chiefs in IP (ChIPs), (Virtual Program) Atlanta, Georgia , September 2020
• Safeguarding Your IP rights with a Nimble Strategy, Managing Intellectual Property, International Women's Leadership Forum, Chicago, Illinois, September 2019
• IP Law: Annual Trademark Update, IP Springposium, Atlanta Bar Association, Lake Lanier, Georgia, April 2022
• IP 101, (selected by the USPTO to serve as the Trademark Expert), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in partnership with The Georgia Tech Library, Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), Atlanta, Georgia, September 2022
• The Necessity of Expanding Innovation: A Fireside Chat with Laura A. Peter, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Deputy Director of the USPTO, Chiefs in IP (ChIPs), IP3, and Georgia IP Alliance, (Virtual Program) Atlanta, Georgia , November 2020

References

• Meredith Ragains, Executive Director, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, 404.873.3911
• Auma Reggy, Managing Lead Counsel, Intellectual Property, McKesson, 404.461.5216
• Elizabeth Lester, Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Equifax, 404.885.8625