Management San Francisco
Resume:
SUNITA KONERU
San Francisco, CA 94118
****.******@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
Bullivant Houser Bailey (merged with Jacobs & Ferraro) – San Francisco, CA 4/08 – 9/10
Senior Associate. Prepared, filed and prosecuted trademark applications, including TTAB matters. Managed large trademark portfolios and counseled corporate management regarding trademark rights, copyright, trade secrets and licensing matters. Managed business transaction matters, business litigation, copyright litigation and trade secret litigation matters.
Jacobs & Ferraro – San Francisco, CA 5/07 – 3/08
Senior Associate. Prepared, filed and prosecuted trademark applications, including TTAB matters. Managed trademark portfolios and counseled corporate management regarding trademark rights, copyright, trade secrets and licensing matters. Managed business transaction and business formation matters, business litigation, copyright litigation and contract matters.
Creative Industry Law Group (formerly Hasse Molesky) – San Francisco, CA 2/04 – 4/07
Associate. Developed and managed firm’s trademark practice, including international trademarks. Managed all trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and licensing matters. Managed broad range of matters, including contract negotiations, entertainment contracts and negotiations, business transactions, business formation, non-profit development, and litigation management in trademark, trade secret, contract, privacy and publicity cases.
Coudert Brothers – San Francisco, CA 4/03 – 1/04
Associate. Prepared, filed and prosecuted trademark applications, including TTAB matters. Handled copyright and licensing matters, business formation, business transactions, international joint ventures, entertainment contracts, and non-profit development.
Hasse Molesky – San Francisco, CA 6/99 – 3/03
Law Clerk then later hired as Associate. Co-developed firm’s trademark practice, domestic, international and litigation. Handled all trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters. Provided legal services in entertainment law, business transactions, business formation, licensing, and litigation management. Drafted pleadings and motions in trademark, contract, libel, privacy and publicity matters.
EDUCATION
San Francisco Law School, J.D. with honors, 2002
University of Chicago, B.A. Political Science, 1993
BAR ADMISSIONS
Member, State Bar of California, 2003
PRO BONO WORK
Evergreen Balvihar 11/05 – 12/08
Counsel for nonprofit organization that teaches children and the community about Indian culture and arts.
Jewish Milestones 1/09 – 9/10
Counsel for nonprofit organization that teaches Jewish lifecycle rituals.
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
- ABA Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments 2009 - Trademarks chapter, Contributor.
- Alterations to the Design Piracy Prohibition Act: Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, Co-author, August 2010.
- SFIPLA Presentation, Recent Developments in Trademark Law, August 2010
- INTA Opposition and Cancellation Subcommittee 2010-2011.
MEMBERSHIPS
- Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
- South Asian Bar Association of Northern California
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
- Law Review Editor and Author, 2000-2001. Published “§1983 Claims Provide Compensation Relief for Constitutional Torts But Under California Law, Students and School District Employees in California are Excluded from Such Relief.”
- West Group Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award, 1999.
- West Publishing Company Corpus Juris Secundum Award in Contracts.
- American Jurisprudence Bancroft-Whitney Award in Contracts and Torts.
- Eric Falconer Scholarship Fund and the Leon A. and Esther F. Blum Foundation, 1999-2001.
REFERENCES References available upon request.
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