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Nancy R. Frandsen

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Philadelphia
215.564.1223
215.568.3439
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Practice Focus

Nancy Rubner Frandsen focuses her practice on trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, trade dress, cyberpiracy, and domain name disputes. For over 20 years, Nancy has guided clients not only through the core areas of trademark and copyright clearance, worldwide registration, maintenance, and enforcement before the federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, but also through the more complex areas of the practice, including dilution, fair use, comparative advertising, and the DMCA. Nancy's in-depth knowledge of her clients' businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to major corporations, has enabled her to support and advance their unique objectives and goals.

Professional Background

Nancy is co-author of What the General Practitioner Should Know About Trademarks and Copyrights (6th Ed), published by ALI-ABA. Other published articles have appeared in both local and national publications on subjects such as trademark searching, product configuration in the Third Circuit, the federal right to copy, bad faith litigation, copyright remedies, and the protection of nonverbal rights under trademark and unfair competition law. She has also lectured on trademarks and trade dress for the American Law Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Temple University, and the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association.

Professional Affiliations

  • Recognized, Martindale-Hubbell, A/V (preeminent) Peer Review Rating
  • Recognized, Chambers USA, "Leaders in Their Field" for intellectual property law
  • Recognized, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, a "Super Lawyer" for intellectual property law
  • Recognized, Best Lawyers in America, a "Best Lawyer" for intellectual property law
  • Recognized, World Trademark Review's "World's Leading Trademark Professionals" guide, for Enforcement and Litigation and Prosecution and Strategy
  • Recognized, World Trademark Review 1000, for Contentious and Non-contentious Trademark Law in Pennsylvania
  • Recognized, Arrive Magazine, Top Women Lawyers in the Northeast
  • Member, American Bar Association's Sections on Intellectual Property and Litigation
  • Member, International Trademark Association (Information Resource Committee)
  • Member, Philadelphia Chapter of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. (chair, 2001-2003)
  • Member, Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Member, Intellectual Property Advisory Committee, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
  • Trademark/Copyright Chair, Patent Prosecution and Client Counseling Service Group (2008)