Kara E.F. Cenar

Kara combines decades of counseling, trial, and litigation experience with practical business applications to assist clients in matters involving technology, patents, design patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trade dress, and trademarks. Her practice also involves counseling and assisting individuals and businesses with intellectual property rights, business issues, and litigation. In addition to representing U.S.-based clients, she also advises international businesses seeking to do business in the United States.

She helps businesses identify the intellectual property that needs protection and assists with matters including:

• Trademark clearance opinions and searches.

• Counseling and monitoring to confirm that intellectual property rights are used properly and effectively.

• Negotiating and drafting licenses, agreements, and transactions related to the rights obtained, domestically and internationally.

• Creating enforcement programs and procedures that promote effective use of the intellectual property and policing against improper use of the intellectual property rights by others.

• Providing opinions and establishing policies and procedures for individuals and companies to avoid conflict with the intellectual property rights of others.

• Pursue or defend IP-based litigation claims and defenses (patent, trademark, copyright, DMCA, and trade secrets), as well as business and contract-based litigation claims for this industry.