Leslie Hartford represents public and private companies across a variety of industries in resolving trademark, copyright, and patent disputes. She is particularly adept at quickly assessing a company’s key business drivers and working with her clients to develop a strategic and early resolution.
I routinely monitor, protect, and enforce my clients’ marks. I handle disputes, as well as unfair competition and related cases. I advise my clients on trademark matters related to applications and registrations, along with handling all stages of enforcement, both in federal court and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
My commercial litigation practice includes managing litigation for software implementation disputes and related claims.
I help my clients approach claims of misappropriation and infringement. I have handled cases in diverse fields, including chemical catalyst technologies.
In the wake of Fourth Estate, I anticipate a rise in copyright applications as this decision clarified that, generally, registration is a prerequisite to filing an infringement action even though copyright protection exists upon creation of a work.
Law360 | March 14, 2018
In the following coverage, Boston partners Jason Kravitz and Gina McCreadie, senior counsel Deborah Thaxter, and associate Leslie Hartford are mentioned for representing W.B. Mason in a trademark infringement case against Dairy Queen over the use of the word “blizzard.”
Law360 | March 14, 2018
In the following coverage, Boston partners Jason Kravitz and Gina McCreadie, senior counsel Deborah Thaxter, and associate Leslie Hartford are mentioned for representing W.B. Mason in a trademark infringement case against Dairy Queen over the use of the word “blizzard.”
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
Duke University, B.A.
Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit