Chrissy is a trusted advisor to clients seeking strategic, effective legal counsel on brand management, intellectual property, and data privacy matters. With deep experience across industries, from healthcare and higher education to entertainment and software, Chrissy helps clients protect, commercialize, and defend their most valuable assets: their brands and intellectual property. Chrissy’s clients value her ability to combine technical legal knowledge with real-world business insight, making her a highly effective partner for companies looking to safeguard their innovations, navigate legal risk, and build strong, enduring brands.
Chrissy provides end-to-end trademark services, including trademark preclearance, trademark prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and management of global trademark portfolios. Her mastery of USPTO procedures and nuanced trademark laws enables her to efficiently guide clients through the complex process of trademark selection, registration and protection.
As part of her broader IP practice, Chrissy provides proactive guidance on IP protection, enforcement, infringement risk, and dispute resolution. She represents clients in Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) opposition and cancellation proceedings and advises on high-stakes matters involving domain name disputes, including UDRP proceedings, and online infringement, including on social media and e-commerce platforms. She also counsels on issues pertaining to ownership, safeguarding, and management of trade secrets and on copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Chrissy also has extensive experience with a wide range of intellectual property and technology agreements, including trademark licenses, software licenses, influencer and sponsorship agreements, and various commercial contracts. Known for her pragmatic, business-focused approach, Chrissy is skilled at helping clients resolve IP issues with a strong focus on risk mitigation and strategic outcomes. She frequently serves as IP counsel on mergers and acquisitions and other transactions, performing detailed due diligence and negotiating critical IP provisions in purchase agreements. Her work often involves advising on complex issues such as open-source software (OSS) licenses, trade secret protection, IP ownership, and infringement risk.
In addition to her IP practice, Chrissy advises clients on data privacy and cybersecurity matters, including managing responses to multi-jurisdictional data breaches, coordinating large-scale notifications to regulators and affected individuals, and identifying compliance gaps under U.S. and international data privacy laws. She also provides privacy due diligence support in transactional contexts and negotiates data security and privacy terms in commercial agreements.
- Assisted an industry-leading manufacturer with data breach notifications following a crippling, multi-jurisdictional ransomware attack. (2021)
- Provided legal compliance analysis and coordination and drafting of all required notices following a data breach suffered by a retail client. (2021)
- Negotiated trademark coexistence agreement on favorable terms for a client adverse to an international wellness brand.
- Managed new mark clearance inquiries and trademark portfolio for national consumer goods retailer.
- Drafted and negotiated license agreement for healthcare technology company’s new software service.
- Represented auto-repair company in an intellectual property ownership dispute adverse to former business partner.