Maria A. Savio
Principal
Maria A. Savio
Principal
Maria Savio counsels clients in all aspects of intellectual property law. Her work focuses on trademark, copyright, and unfair competition matters including complex counterfeiting and trade dress assertions. While her work primarily involves counseling clients in infringement assertion and avoidance, Maria has extensive litigation experience and has litigated cases before federal courts throughout the USA. Maria is well-versed in seeking extraordinary remedies such as TROs, preliminary injunctions and asset freezes.
Much of Maria’s work pertains to the Internet and social media, given a client base that is largely operating online. She is intimately familiar with the challenges that trademark owners face in the digital environment and utilizes creative alternatives available to combat online infringements. Maria also manages the international trademark portfolios of clients in a host of industries. She has developed and implemented strategies for the acquisition and assertion of trademarks throughout the world, including the portfolio of one of the first VoIP telephony providers and a restaurant business that is franchised in numerous countries worldwide.
Maria also has substantial transactional experience. She has negotiated and drafted all types of agreements involving intellectual property interests, including licenses and publishing contracts. She also draws on her extensive and well-rounded experience to provide advice on intellectual property issues that arise in the context of acquisitions, IPOs and intellectual property audits. Maria is a registered patent attorney and is thus able to speak to all types of intellectual property issues facing her clients.
Maria’s domestic and multinational clients are involved in a wide variety of industries, particularly in the restaurant and food service area, digital marketing and advertising, telecommunications, publishing and media, entertainment, sports, consumer goods, fashion accessories and designer branded goods. She has a deep understanding of the business issues that companies face in today’s environment.
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Languages
Italian
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Maria Savio counsels clients in all aspects of intellectual property law. Her work focuses on trademark, copyright, and unfair competition matters including complex counterfeiting and trade dress assertions. While her work primarily involves counseling clients in infringement assertion and avoidance, Maria has extensive litigation experience and has litigated cases before federal courts throughout the USA. Maria is well-versed in seeking extraordinary remedies such as TROs, preliminary injunctions and asset freezes.
Much of Maria’s work pertains to the Internet and social media, given a client base that is largely operating online. She is intimately familiar with the challenges that trademark owners face in the digital environment and utilizes creative alternatives available to combat online infringements. Maria also manages the international trademark portfolios of clients in a host of industries. She has developed and implemented strategies for the acquisition and assertion of trademarks throughout the world, including the portfolio of one of the first VoIP telephony providers and a restaurant business that is franchised in numerous countries worldwide.
Maria also has substantial transactional experience. She has negotiated and drafted all types of agreements involving intellectual property interests, including licenses and publishing contracts. She also draws on her extensive and well-rounded experience to provide advice on intellectual property issues that arise in the context of acquisitions, IPOs and intellectual property audits. Maria is a registered patent attorney and is thus able to speak to all types of intellectual property issues facing her clients.
Maria’s domestic and multinational clients are involved in a wide variety of industries, particularly in the restaurant and food service area, digital marketing and advertising, telecommunications, publishing and media, entertainment, sports, consumer goods, fashion accessories and designer branded goods. She has a deep understanding of the business issues that companies face in today’s environment.
Awards & Recognition
Languages
Italian