Nancy R. Frandsen
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| Philadelphia | |
| P. 215.564.1223 | |
| F. 215.568.3439 | |
| nfrandsen@woodcock.com | |
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Nancy R. Frandsen is a partner at Woodcock Washburn. Her practice focuses on trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, trade dress, cyberpiracy and domain name disputes. For over 20 years, Ms. Frandsen has enjoyed guiding clients not only through the core areas of trademark and copyright clearance, worldwide registration, maintenance, and enforcement before the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, but also through the more complex areas of the practice, including dilution, fair use, comparative advertising and the DMCA. Ms. Frandsen’s in-depth knowledge of her clients’ businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to major corporations, has enabled her to support and advance their unique objectives and goals. As a result, Ms. Frandsen has earned recognition in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as “Leaders in Their Field” in the area of intellectual property law.
Ms. Frandsen received her J.D., cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and her B.A. from Ohio University. She is co-author of What the General Practitioner Should Know About Trademarks and Copyrights (6th Ed), published by ALI-ABA. Other published articles have appeared in both local and national publications on subjects such as trademark searching, product configuration in the Third Circuit, the federal right to copy, bad faith litigation, copyright remedies and the protection of nonverbal rights under trademark and unfair competition law. She has also lectured on trademarks and trade dress for the American Law Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Temple University and the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association. Ms. Frandsen is a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. (Chair, 2001-2003), the American Bar Association’s Sections on Intellectual Property and Litigation, the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Association, the International Trademark Association (Trade Dress Image Library Subcommittee) and is on the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Trademark/Copyright Chair of the Patent Prosecution and Client Counseling Service Group, (2008)
