The International Trademark Association Annual Meeting takes place in Singapore from May 16 through May 20, 2023.

The INTA meeting is the world’s largest gathering of trademark practitioners, corporate counsel, and brand owners. Over 7,000 attendees plan to attend.

Sessions are on a wide-variety of trademark and brand protection topics, including several tracks on IP and Innovation, including:

  • Influencer Marketing: Balancing Regulation, Brand Protection, and Endorser Goals
  • How to Foster Creativity and Innovation When Leading a Team
  • A Cross-Atlantic View of Trade Dress Protection
  • Global Networks, Opportunities, and Challenges for Start Ups and Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • Trademark Trailblazers: Forging New Paths in the Global Trademark Community

Business Track sessions are also being offered, such as:

  • Trade Secrets—Global Networks, Opportunities, and Challenges for Start Ups and Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • IP Lessons and Best Practices from Award Winning Start-ups, Entrepreneurs, and SMEs
  • Managing IP Assets in Today’s Regulated Global Environment
  • IP Financing: How to Leverage Your Intangible Assets to Secure Financing
  • IP Commercialization: How Can you Exploit your IP Beyond Your Own Product and Services

In addition, a wide-variety of IP marketplace exhibitors will be there to discuss trademark clearance, searching, registration, and maintenance services. Digital brand protection solutions and tools continue to grow in popularity. These can be used to monitor infringing domain names, trademarks, logos, and counterfeit websites. Take-down of unauthorized websites and social media pages can also be accomplished through digital brand protection solutions used in partnership with experienced trademark counsel.

To view the 2023 INTA Annual Conference Agenda visit here: https://www.inta.org/inta-events/2023-annual-meeting-live-program/#layout-2-section-21

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James Hastings is an attorney with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice Group of Practus, LLP.  He is a certified mediator of the INTA Panel of Mediators, an international roster of select professionals with expertise in trademark dispute resolution.

James is…

James Hastings is an attorney with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice Group of Practus, LLP.  He is a certified mediator of the INTA Panel of Mediators, an international roster of select professionals with expertise in trademark dispute resolution.

James is the publisher of Trademark Opposition Lawyer, an online advisory dedicated to helping brand owners understand important issues that arise in proceedings before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.  His commentary has been featured on Corporate Counsel, Law.com, LegalZoom,and other digital publications.

He devotes his practice to trademark opposition and trademark cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Over the course of his career, he has represented the interests of numerous national and international brand owners in trademark litigation matters in both the U.S. District Courts and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Prior to his current affiliation with Practus, LLP, James was in-house counsel to a New England-based catalog retailer, where he was responsible for developing trademark portfolio acquisition, protection, and licensing strategies.  Earlier in his career, he was a partner and associate at intellectual property law firms in New York, where he was engaged in trademark portfolio and intellectual property protection work on behalf of well-known fashion and personal care brands.

James is a member of the New York and Connecticut bars.  He has lectured at University MBA programs and legal education conferences on the issues of trademark protection and e-commerce law.

Past and Present Membership

  • International Trademark Association
  • Association Corporate Counsel

  • National E-tailing and Mail Order Organization of America

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