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Nina L. Shaw

Nina L. Shaw

Distinguished Lawyer

Intellectual Property Law

2029 Century Park East, Suite 1750, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Area of Practice: Entertainment Law

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Raymond E. Farrell

Raymond E. Farrell

Featured Lawyer

Intellectual Property Law

576 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, NY 11747

Ray Farrell is a senior partner and co-founder of the firm with extensive experience in advising U.S. and international clients of all sizes on the effective development and utilization of their patent and trademark portfolios, with an eye towards achieving optimal return on the resources dedicated by a given client to its intellectual property strategy. Additionally, he advises clients on navigating freedom-to-operate issues to help them minimize risks while executing product launches or brand development. This experience was acquired over twenty-five years working with clients on the development of complex IP portfolios and commercial product launches in highly litigious environments. After first learning what each client’s unique business goals and objectives are, he then works with the client to formulate an overall intellectual property strategy to achieve those milestones. He continuously works with the clients to ensure that any changes, either to the client’s vision or the laws potentially affecting that vision, are addressed by advising the client of appropriate options, thereby ensuring a highly efficient and continuously optimized plan of execution. With a continuous attitude of “we are just getting started,” Mr. Farrell enjoys perfecting client service delivery processes and developing the careers of aspiring IP professionals as well as learning alongside them in order to offer the most effective and efficient team to best serve the needs of the firm’s clients. Mr. Farrell also has a strong belief in mentoring startup entrepreneurs so they can receive the early guidance necessary to set them on a sound trajectory for their venture’s success. To this end, he continuously donates extensive amounts of time educating startup entrepreneurs on the benefits of a sound intellectual property strategy to optimize their venture’s growth and either their continued development or ultimate exit. To help expand upon his individual mentoring efforts, he was principally involved in organizing participation in the MIT Venture Mentoring Outreach Program, a consortium made up of prestigious scientific research laboratories, academic institutions, business incubators, and a business accelerator.

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Renée L. Duff

Renée L. Duff

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Intellectual Property Law

111 Brook St suite 101, Scarsdale, NY 10583, USA

Renée is the firm’s Managing Partner for the Trademark Practice and the New York office of Nolte Lackenbach Siegel. Over the course of her career, she has managed intellectual property assets from a business, law firm, and in-house perspective. This experience provides an uncommon combination of insight that makes her a valuable resource for clients on issues related to both the business and legal aspects of intellectual property. The creative and entrepreneurial spirit that is so often found within this area of law is what she thrives on. Renée has protected and managed thousands of trademarks, copyrights and domain names and has advised on various issues related to intellectual property in several capacities. Before and while attending law school she worked in the business world, during which time she worked in licensing, creative, and operations positions on both a full time and freelance basis in the sports and entertainment industries. Her subsequent legal career has included working for high-profile, household name companies, as well as with numerous start-up’s and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of industries. Renée currently primarily focuses on U.S. trademark prosecution, title and security interest issues, US Customs matters, and domain name registration conflicts and strategies. She also advises clients in connection with contracts and securing commercially viable outlets for their intellectual property rights. Renée has spoken widely on the benefits of and strategies for intellectual property within businesses of all sizes. In addition to the practice of law, Renée has created and taught online courses for education in intellectual property and has been a mentor for students preparing for the New York State Bar Examination. She has also created a great deal of her own intellectual property in various visual arts and is a skilled photographer, which was the spark that initially fueled her interest in pursuing the practice of law within the field of intellectual property.

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Rex Barbas

Rex Barbas

Featured Lawyer

Intellectual Property Law

4904 W Cypress St, Tampa, FL 33607, USA

Area of Practice: Mediations & Arbitrations Rex graduated from Jesuit High School, Tampa. He attended Loyola University in New Orleans,B.A,, J.D. (research assistant to the Dean of the Law School and a teaching Fellow in Research and Writing). He graduated Law Review and top 9% of his class. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Assistant State Attorney 1975 - 1980. office. Private practice 1980-1997. Circuit Judge 1997-2023. As a judge I handled the following matters:Business Dissolution, Commercial/Business, Consumer Fraud, Contract Disputes, Debt Collections, Employment, Health Care Insurance, Land Use/Planning, Landlord/Tenant, Legal and Medical Malpractice, Nursing Homes, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Professional Fees, Property Damage, Unfair Competition, and Wrongful Death, amng other types of litigation.RECOGNITIONS: Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Who’s Who in American Law and in Whose Who in the World, National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, Lawyers of Distinction

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