Virginia Wolk Marino
Office: Chicago I’m focused on: Intellectual Property, Brand Protection, Trademark Counseling & LitigationPartner
Comprehensive brand protection requires strategic and creative partnership with key stakeholders, and Virginia Marino is a proven, effective collaborator. Companies large and small trust Virginia to manage complex brand protection matters relating to trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and social media in the United States and around the world.
Virginia focuses her practice on all aspects of domestic and global brand protection, copyright, and unfair competition law. Her extensive trademark prosecution, counseling, and litigation practice includes the acquisition, maintenance, licensing, enforcement, and transfer of intellectual property. Virginia’s clients operate in a wide variety of industries, including life sciences, consumer goods, food and beverage, hospitality and travel, technology, and luxury goods. She has significant experience clearing pharmaceutical brand names for various large and midsized pharmaceutical companies as well as trademark prosecution, enforcement, and counseling experience in this field.
Virginia’s counseling practice emphasizes developing and implementing global trademark filing, prosecution, and enforcement strategies and programs, both in the United States and internationally. She also regularly counsels clients on copyright clearance, prosecution, and enforcement issues. Virginia has experience conducting due diligence and intellectual property audits and regularly provides advice on complex licensing and assignment issues.