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Brendan Quinn

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Associate, Washington, D.C.

Drawing on his deep experience in the performing arts and the food and beverage industries, Brendan Quinn focuses his practice on all features of a brand's intellectual property (IP) portfolio to ensure maximum protection of his clients's IP rights.

Brendan advises clients throughout the life cycle of their brand – from advertising review, trademark and copyright prosecution, and portfolio management through enforcement and litigation of these rights before federal courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Brendan also assists alcohol beverage clients not only with their IP matters, but also with regulatory compliance, stemming from an internship at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) where he assisted with labeling approval and the agency's geographic indication of origin program.

While at the Georgetown University Law Center, he served as a law fellow for the legal writing curriculum and received The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Excellence for the Future Awards for earning the highest grades in his trademark and unfair competition law and advertising law courses.

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