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Virginia Wolk Marino

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Overview

Comprehensive brand protection requires strategic and creative partnership with key stakeholders, and Virginia Marino is a proven, effective collaborator. Companies large and small trust Virginia to manage complex brand protection matters relating to trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and social media in the United States and around the world.

Virginia focuses her practice on all aspects of domestic and global brand protection, copyright, and unfair competition law. Her extensive trademark prosecution, counseling, and litigation practice includes the acquisition, maintenance, licensing, enforcement, and transfer of intellectual property. Virginia’s clients operate in a wide variety of industries, including life sciences, consumer goods, food and beverage, hospitality and travel, technology, and luxury goods. She has significant experience clearing pharmaceutical brand names for various large and midsized pharmaceutical companies as well as trademark prosecution, enforcement, and counseling experience in this field.

Virginia’s counseling practice emphasizes developing and implementing global trademark filing, prosecution, and enforcement strategies and programs, both in the United States and internationally. She also regularly counsels clients on copyright clearance, prosecution, and enforcement issues. Virginia has experience conducting due diligence and intellectual property audits and regularly provides advice on complex licensing and assignment issues.

As a litigator, Virginia represents clients in civil litigation in federal district court and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board opposition and cancellation actions, and she has extensive experience with domain name disputes under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy. Virginia regularly assists clients with online intellectual property protection, including web-based trademark protection and vigilance. She has significant experience managing global enforcement actions and also has extensive in-house experience, as she was previously seconded to Accenture as in-house trademark counsel. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Virginia was a shareholder at Brinks Gilson & Lione.

Career & Education

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    • University of Michigan, B.A., with distinction, english language and literature, 2005
    • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2008
    • University of Michigan, B.A., with distinction, english language and literature, 2005
    • The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2008
    • Illinois
    • Supreme Court of Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
    • Illinois
    • Supreme Court of Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • Professional Activities and Memberships

    • American Bar Association
    • Illinois State Bar Association
    • International Trademark Association

    Professional Activities and Memberships

    • American Bar Association
    • Illinois State Bar Association
    • International Trademark Association
Virginia is a go-to in the U.S. for anything trademark related and an absolute pleasure to work with. She gives sound advice that gets right to the heart of the legal issue while keeping the business side of things in mind. ‘Global brand protector’ best describes the role she plays.

World Trademark Review 1000, 2022

Virginia's Insights

Speaking Engagement | 06.21.24

Fundamentals of Trademark Law in Global Marketplace 2024, New York, NY

Trademark law continues to challenge as impactful recent case law, administrative updates and the need for an increasingly global outlook when practicing trademark law evolves the practice....

Recognition

  • Chambers USA: Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets, Illinois, 2023
  • Legal 500 United States: Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing), 2023
  • World Trademark Review 1000: Bronze Band, Prosecution & Strategy, 2020–2023
  • Crain's Chicago Business: Notable Women in Law, 2020, 2022
  • Managing Intellectual Property: Notable Practitioner, 2020 

Virginia's Insights

Speaking Engagement | 06.21.24

Fundamentals of Trademark Law in Global Marketplace 2024, New York, NY

Trademark law continues to challenge as impactful recent case law, administrative updates and the need for an increasingly global outlook when practicing trademark law evolves the practice....

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Virginia's Insights

Speaking Engagement | 06.21.24

Fundamentals of Trademark Law in Global Marketplace 2024, New York, NY

Trademark law continues to challenge as impactful recent case law, administrative updates and the need for an increasingly global outlook when practicing trademark law evolves the practice....