Kathleen E. McCarthy (Katie)

Katie McCarthy, a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in King & Spalding’s New York office, has 24 years of experience in litigation and related counseling in domestic and international trademark, copyright, false advertising, right of publicity, unfair competition and Internet matters. She works with clients to find creative and practical solutions to their legal challenges, and helps them develop legal strategies to advance their business goals.

Ms. McCarthy has first-chaired numerous trials and preliminary injunction hearings and has practiced in the federal courts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the International Trade Commission and ICANN domain name arbitrations.

In addition to litigation and contested matters, Ms. McCarthy directs international and domestic trademark clearance and prosecution programs. She is co-chair of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association’s Trademark Law and Practice Committee and sits on the editorial board of INTA’s scholarly journal, The Trademark Reporter.

Ms. McCarthy also frequently writes and speaks on trademark and false advertising matters.   Examples of speaking engagements and articles include:

• “Everything You Know is Wrong: Formerly Settled Copyright Issues,” Presentation,  PLI Understanding Copyright Law in the Data Era 2012 (July 2012)
  
  
•  “International Protection in an Internet World,” Presentation, PLI Intellectual Property Law Institute (September 2011)
  
  
•  “Practical Advice on Stopping Blatant Infringements,” Presentation and Program Co-Chair, PLI IP Enforcement and Litigation 2011: Civil and Criminal Update  (March 2011)
  
  
•  “Brand Protection: Trademark Issues in Cyberspace,” Presentation, PLI Information Technology Law Institute (April 2010)
  
  
•  “Hot Trademark Topics before the TTAB and Federal Courts,” Presentation, PLI Intellectual Property Law Institute (September 2010)
  
  
• “Update on Fraud at the Trademark Office: the TTAB’s Medinol Approach Hits the Federal Circuit”, NYIPLA “Hot Issues in Trademark and Copyright Law Seminar (June 3, 2009).
  
  
• "Enforcement of IP Rights in the U.S. and Globally", Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program, International Trademark Association Headquarters (May 28, 2009)
  
  
• “Protecting Trademarks in a Web 2.0 World: User Generated Content Affecting Trademarks, including Virtual Worlds,” Presentation, PLI Information Technology Law Institute, New York and San Francisco (Spring 2009)
  
  
• “Practical Skills - Basics of Intellectual Property Law - Trademarks,” Presentation, New York State Bar Association Seminar (May 8, 2008)
  
  
• “An Introduction to the New Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules”, Article, co-author with James R. Robinson, appearing in The Trademark Reporter® (November-December 2007)
  
  
• “Ethical Considerations in Trademark Practice”, presentation, NYIPLA “Hot Issues in Trademark Law” Seminar (June 2007)
  
  
• “Fraud on the Trademark Office” Chair/host of NYIPLA Trademark Committee Luncheon Lecture (January 2007)
  
  
• “What Every Litigator Must Know About Intellectual Property: Trademark Litigation”, PLI Seminar (July 2003; July 2004)
  
  
• Article, “The Current State Of Dilution: Attempting To Identify Factors That Influence Who Wins and Who Loses Dilution Cases”, Mealey’s Litigation Report: Volume II, Issue #8 (Jan. 20 2003)
  
  
• “The Standards for Proving Dilution in Trademark Cases”, PLI Eighth Annual Institute for Intellectual Property Law (September 2002)
  
  
• “Trademark Infringement Litigation in the U.S.” and “Opposition and Cancellation Actions in the U.S.: Presenting an Effective Case”:  INTA Trademark Administrators Conference (Chicago, October 2001)
  
  
• “The Effect of the Internet on Global Intellectual Property Practice”,  PLI Global Trademark and Copyright Program (New York , October 1999; New York and San Francisco, October 2000)
  
  
• “False Comparative Advertising”, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Seminar (Washington, D.C., March 1998)