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BakerHostetler Alumni Newsletter – Fall 2024

Christina is one of the founding “Masters of the Bench” for the Kathleen M. O’Malley American Inn of Court. She has served the Ohio intellectual property community in many ways, as one of the leaders of the Northern District of Ohio Local Patent Rules Drafting Committee, teaching trademark law and trademark and copyright litigation as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and holding leadership positions in the Cleveland Municipal Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section and the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association.

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LL.M., The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2001, 

J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law, 1998, 

B.S., Ohio University, 1995, 

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<li>The Best Lawyers in America®
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<li>Ohio: Litigation &#8211; Intellectual Property (2025)</li>
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<li>Managing IP Awards Americas: Impact Cases of the Year Award (2024)</li>
<li>The Legal 500 United States
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<li>Leading Lawyer in Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing) (2023)</li>
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<li>WTR 1000 – The World&#8217;s Leading Trademark Professionals (2018 to 2019, 2022 to 2024)
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<li>Top Attorney in Ohio &#8211; Silver (2018 to 2019)</li>
<li>Top Attorney in Ohio &#8211; Bronze (2022)</li>
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<li>Ohio Super Lawyers “Rising Star” (2009, 2011, 2013)</li>
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IP Intelligence Report

Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy: Supreme Court Allows Retrospective Copyright Damages Beyond 3 Years Based on Discovery Rule

BakerHostetler Hosts INTA 2024 Reception at Historic King Center

In re Post Foods, LLC: TTAB Denies Color Mark for Post’s Fruity Pebbles

Hermès Int’l v Rothschild Wins Impact Cases of the Year from Managing IP Awards Americas

Trademark and Copyright Team, IP Attorneys Rank High in 2024 WTR 1000 Guide

Alternatives to Noncompetes

Alternatives to Noncompetes: Intellectual Property Alternatives to Noncompetes

Great Concepts LLC v. Chutter, Inc.: The Federal Circuit Weighs In on TTAB’s Authority When a Registrant Commits Fraud on the Trademark Office

Extraterritorial Reach of the Lanham Act

BakerHostetler Attorneys and Practice Areas Recognized in The Legal 500 2023 Guide

Remarkable Achievements: IP Teams Earn Three Practice and 16 Individual Rankings

Eight Attorneys Again Praised in ‘World Trademark Review 1000′

BakerHostetler Intellectual Property Group Earns High Marks in Annual Ranking

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Noncompete and Trade Secrets

Patent Litigation

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Trademark and Copyright

Interactive Entertainment and Videogames

Multidistrict Litigation

False Advertising
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<li>Represented a nutraceutical distributor in bet-the-company litigation against former supplier, alleging that supplier falsified and misrepresented key ingredients in probiotic that, following FDA recall, supplier continued to falsely advertise to consumers.</li>
<li>Represented medical equipment manufacturer against competitor in claim that competitor falsely advertised the certification status of equipment destined for medical settings.</li>
<li>Represented valve manufacturer in civil action alleging that competitor used plaintiff’s product drawings in product brochures to falsely claim equivalence to plaintiff’s valve.</li>
</ul>
Trademark
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<li>Represented a medical products distribution company against global conglomerate that encroached on client’s senior trademark rights.</li>
<li>Representing an Ohio-based global consumer food products company in various disputes involving trade dress and trademark rights.</li>
<li>Represented a global adhesives and coatings company in a trademark infringement dispute in which the settlement was enforced following a favorable appeal to the Sixth Circuit.</li>
<li>Represented auto manufacturer in trademark infringement lawsuit against former dealer.</li>
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Copyright
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<li>Represented one of the world’s largest mass retailers in a trademark, trade dress and copyright infringement action involving children’s “Silly Bandz” novelty bands.</li>
<li>Aggressively defended clothing retailers in multiple copyright infringement actions for over a decade involving garment fabric and lace patterns in the U.S. District Courts for the Central District of California and Southern District of New York.</li>
<li>Represented a performance rights society in various copyright infringement disputes, including a Sixth Circuit appeal affirming the original default judgment in favor of the client.</li>
</ul>
Patent 
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<li>Defended a leader in content management services software in a multistate, multipatent infringement lawsuit brought by a competitor.</li>
<li>Represented a global Internet and software company in a patent infringement action involving traffic information services.</li>
<li>Defended a green technology company against claims that the client’s alternative fuel infringed patents filed years after client had adopted its process, resulting in the plaintiff voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit with prejudice.</li>
</ul>
Trade Secret
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<li>Represented one of the world’s largest financial advisory firms in a complicated trade secret lawsuit involving corporate performance management software brought in the Eastern District of Virginia “rocket docket.”</li>
<li>Represented an Ohio-based marketing software platform technology company in its lawsuit against competitor in broad ranging trade secret, trademark, and trade dress infringement case, including obtaining an order for a mandatory adverse inference jury charge due to the defendants’ spoliation of evidence.</li>
<li>Represented one of the largest suppliers of rotating equipment solutions in a trade secret and copyright case involving industrial valve technology in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.</li>
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Right of Publicity
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<li>Lead counsel for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, an institution founded by Dr. King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, in a trademark opposition proceeding brought by the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. alleging a false suggestion of a connection with Dr. King.</li>
<li>Represented television station in a right of publicity and copyright case brought by the “Naked News Anchor” Catherine Bosley.</li>
<li>Represented well-known musical group in copyright and right of publicity action against car manufacturer that appropriated the group’s signature song, names and likenesses to launch a new vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show.</li>
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