Jeanne Hamburg Ranked in World Trademark Review 1000

Jeanne M. Hamburg, a Member of law firm Norris McLaughlin, P.A., has been ranked in the 2019 World Trademark Review 1000 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals (WTR 1000). Among a group of fewer than 90 trademark professionals in New York, Hamburg was named a top trademark attorney in the areas of enforcement and litigation.

For the past nine years, the WTR 1000 has ranked the top firms and individuals in 70 key jurisdictions globally. To be ranked, the firms and individuals must be “deemed outstanding in a critical area of practice.” Over a four-month period, the WTR 1000 conducts interviews and exchanges correspondence with hundreds of attorneys and their clients, as well as gathering submissions from firms detailing activity in the field.

“Highly active within INTA and busy in her practice on both transactional and litigation fronts, Jeanne Hamburg of Norris McLaughlin is at the cutting edge of trademark and copyright law as it relates to the Internet,” the WTR 1000 wrote about Hamburg. To find out more about the WTR 1000 and Hamburg’s impressive achievement, please click here.

A resident of New York, Hamburg is expert in all aspects of copyright and trademark law, both in litigation and in the transactional area, assisting clients in a broad range of industries with their IP needs.

Hamburg has litigated in federal courts across the country, acting as national counsel to bring and defend infringement claims for clients both foreign and domestic.  Hamburg has recovered domain names for clients in many Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Proceedings, and prosecuted and defended numerous opposition and cancellation proceedings and ex parte appeals before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Hamburg is experienced in trademark and copyright licensing, traditional print and online publishing, software development, web site development, content licenses, and electronic subscriptions.  She is expert in copyright and trademark clearance, prosecution and enforcement, and issues arising from the Internet. She is Chair of the firm’s Internet Law Group.

Hamburg frequently speaks and writes about intellectual property topics and is active in many trade groups in industries whose clients she serves.  She is a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), currently serving on its Government Officials Training Committee.  Formerly, she was Chair of INTA’s Law Firm Committee, served on its Copyright Committee, and was a speaker for its Trademark Basics “Maintaining the Perfect Partnership” seminar held in New York for in-house and outside counsel.

Hamburg attended Wellesley College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and received her B.A., magna cum laude, in English and Psychology, with Honors in English, in 1987.  In 1990, she received her J.D. at Columbia University School of Law, where she was editor of the Columbia Law Review.