Meet Dreitler's Colleague
Mary
R. True
Mary True
has been practicing law for nearly 20
years and focuses her practice on helping clients obtain and protect intellectual property rights to meet their
business objectives. A partner in the
litigation group at Bricker & Eckler, LLP, True’s
practice includes litigation in federal courts on matters relating to
trademark
and copyright infringement, right of publicity, unfair competition and
false
advertising, enforcement actions in the Trademark Trial and Appeal
Board,
prosecuting applications in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and
domain
name protection before the World Intellectual Property Organization.
<>Mary has extensive experience in trademark, trade dress,
unfair competition, copyright and domain name litigation in the federal
courts
and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). With her colleague Joe Dreitler, she
successfully defended Joel Hyatt and Al Gore against efforts to enjoin
the
launch of their cable channel under the trademark Current TV. Current
Communications
Group LLC v. Current Media LLC, 76 USPQ2d 1686 (DC SD Ohio
2005), and
obtained a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and product recall order
in U.S.
District Court, Columbus, on behalf of Elizabeth Arden, ordering that a
knock-off of "curious" Britney Spears perfume be recalled from store
shelves. They represented Tiffany, Burberry, Kate Spade and Gucci in a
civil
action for counterfeiting in U.S. District Court, Columbus, Ohio. They
represented Coors Brewing Company
against a trademark and unfair competition lawsuit brought by the NCAA
in Indianapolis, Indiana,
and Clear Channel Communications in a trademark and unfair competition
suit in
the U.S. District Court, Los
Angeles.
They obtained a judgment on behalf of Dell Inc. against infamous
cyberpirate
John Zuccarini and permanent injunctions on behalf of Dell Inc. and
Nationwide
Insurance Company in trademark infringement cases in U.S. District
Court,
Columbus and Chicago. Dreitler and True brought suit on behalf of
Online
Computer Library Center against the Library Hotel in U.S. District
Court,
Columbus, Ohio; and successfully defended Kmart and Joe Boxer in a
trademark
infringement suit; Target Corporation in a trade dress/copyright
infringement
case; and Quantum Corporation in a copyright infringement suit, all in
U.S.
District Court S.D. OH. She also represented Dell,
Inc. in several successful UDRP actions
before the World Intellectual Property Association, including Dell
Computer
Corporation v. High Traffic Domains Inc. (WIPO D2003-0282) and
Dell
Computer Corporation v. RaveClub Berlin (WIPO D2002–0601).<>
<>In addition, Mary
has counseled Clear
Channel Communications on disputes with Major League Baseball and the
National
Football League, and Ohio
State University
on trademark and right of publicity issues.
She is currently representing Nationwide Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Cardinal
Health, Harry Winston jewelers, Elizabeth Arden, Inc. and Celestial
Pictures in
TTAB proceedings, and Red Wing Shoe Company in an action for false
advertising and
false designation of origin in the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Ohio.
Mary is a member of the Board of Governors of the
Intellectual
Property Law Section of the Ohio State Bar Association and a member of
the Saul
Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition Committee of the International
Trademark
Association (INTA) 1993-96. She co-authored, with Joe Dreitler the
article “Has the Sixth Circuit Abandoned Trademark
Law”, which was published in the Spring 2005 Akron University
Law Review,
and an article titled "Pre-Filing
Strategies and Evaluation" which appeared in the April 2004 IP
Litigator magazine. She is a
frequent speaker on trademark and internet law, including CLE
presentations to
the Ohio State Bar Association and the Cincinnati Bar Association.
Contact Mary at (614)
227-4873 -
mtrue@bricker.com
