Marsha G. Gentner
Senior Counsel
Marsha G. Gentner helps clients strategically manage their global trademark and copyright portfolios. With extensive experience prosecuting and litigating before the U.S. and foreign trademark and copyright authorities, tribunals, and courts, she knows how to navigate complex registration issues, defend her clients’ key assets, and handle enforcement issues in jurisdictions around the world.
In addition to filing and maintaining an extensive global docket of registrations, Marsha supervises enforcement actions, including proceedings before local trademark authorities, customs and court seizures, and civil and criminal counterfeit actions. Marsha works to keep her clients out of court, saving them time and money. She has been able to stave off copyright troll claims, and she convinced a well-known trademark holder not to sue and seek injunction against a cannabis company accused of infringement—all without the client paying a dime.
“The most solution-driven IP attorney I’ve ever worked with” is the highest compliment I’ve ever received. It’s exactly what motivates my approach to every client matter. ”
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- Georgetown University, J.D., 1978, Staff Editor, American Criminal Law Review 1976-1978
- Indiana University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1975, four-time recipient of the Special Achievement Award
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Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
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Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1978
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1988
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1997
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1988
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1990
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Recognized for prosecution and strategy in World Trademark Review 1000 — The World's Leading Trademark Professionals, United States - D.C. jurisdiction, 2020-2022
- Recognized in Managing Intellectual Property magazine as an IP Star, 2015-2016
- Recipient of an AV® Preeminent™ Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
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- The District of Columbia Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section
- ITechLaw (International Technology Law Association)
- INTA (International Trademark Association)
- Trademark Mediators Network
- ACR (Association for Conflict Resolution)
Areas of client focus
Industries
Cannabis
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