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Related Practices

• Litigation
• Trademarks and Copyrights
• Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
• Intellectual Property Transactions

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Claudia W. Stangle

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Ms. Stangle specializes in the areas of trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, false and comparative advertising, Internet law (including cybersquatting and domain name disputes), trade secrets, trademark and copyright licensing, right of publicity/privacy, and trademark acquisitions and divestitures.  She represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including, consumer goods, insurance and financial services, pharmaceuticals, and industrial products.

Ms. Stangle has significant experience in complex inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), has represented clients in federal courts around the U.S., and has won over fifty ICANN proceedings relating to domain name dispute matters for her clients.  She has experience drafting pleadings, discovery motions, summary judgment motions and has engaged in different aspects of discovery, including taking and defending depositions, attending court calls, settlement conferences with judges, and working with damages experts.  She has also participated in patent infringement litigation.  In addition to her litigation and dispute practice, Ms. Stangle has extensive experience in trademark counseling.  She has counseled clients by providing search advice and protectability opinions regarding domestic and global trademark availability.

Moreover, Ms. Stangle has significant experience in trade dress matters, from disputes in the U.S. and internationally to registration of colors, containers and shapes with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  She is responsible for supervising large-scale and international assignment and other change of ownership recordal projects.  She is skilled in due diligence review and analysis for mergers and acquisitions in both the U.S. and foreign, trademark, copyright and domain name portfolios.

Ms. Stangle is active in the International Trademark Association (INTA), for which she has served on a committee since 2006.  She is a member of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and the Chicago Bar Association.  She has been a guest lecturer on trademark law at DePaul University, College of Law.  Presently, she serves on the firm’s Recruiting Committee.

Professional Affiliations

• International Trademark Association (INTA) (Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition, Bench Memo Subcommittee) from 2006
• Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC)
• Chicago Bar Association
• Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)

Articles and Publications

• NBA v. Motorola & STATS, Inc.: Real-time Basketball Scores: News or Property, 7 DePaul LCA J. Art & Ent. L. 288 (1997)

Honors

• Named in the Illinois Rising Stars list, as published in Illinois Super Lawyers, 2009, 2010

Representative Matters

• Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. v. Sagepoint Financial, Inc. f/k/a AIG Financial Advisors, Inc. (N.D. Indiana 2009). Successfully defended defendant in a Motion for Preliminary Injunction where the marks “SagePoint” and “Sagemark” were at issue, including preparing witnesses and brief.
• Concord Brands, et al. v. Taste of Nature, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 2007).  Represented Defendant in trademark action relating to candy; case settled prior to trial.
• American International Group, Inc. v. American International Holding LLC (D. Colo. 2006).  Represented Plaintiff in trademark action relating to insurance and financial services; case settled prior to trial.
• Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. v. Allied National, Inc., American International Group, Inc., et al. (D.N.J. 2006).  Acted as co-counsel representing two Defendants in trademark action relating to insurance services; case settled prior to trial.
• Tek Industries, Inc. v. General Binding Corporation (D. Neb. 2006).  Represented Defendant in trademark action relating to paper trimmers; case settled prior to trial.
• American International Group, Inc. v. Archer’s International Group of Companies, Inc. (N.D. Tex. 2005).  Represented Plaintiff in trademark action where mark and relatedness of financial and insurance services at issue; case settled prior to trial.
• Hawker Energy Products Limited v. Northstar Battery Company, LLC, et al. (W.D. Mo. 2004).  Represented Plaintiff in patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation action relating to battery terminal seal; case settled prior to trial.
• Tanel Corporation v. Tommy Hilfiger U.S.A., Inc., et al. (N.D. Ill. 2004).  Represented Defendant, acting as local counsel, in trademark action relating to shoes; case settled prior to trial.
• John C. Gile v. National Wildlife Federation (N.D. Ill. 2003).  Represented Plaintiff in copyright infringement and right of publicity/privacy action relating to children’s book; case settled prior to trial.
• Tommy Hilfiger Licensing, Inc., et al. v. Meijer, Inc., et al. (N.D. Ill. 2002).  Represented Plaintiff, acting as local counsel, in trademark action where counterfeit clothing was at issue; case settled prior to trial.
• American International Group, Inc. v. AIG Capital Corporation (S.D. Fla. 2000). Represented Plaintiff in trademark action where mark and relatedness of financial and insurance services at issue; case settled prior to trial.
• Fleetguard, Inc. v. Baldwin Filters, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 2000).  Represented Defendant in reverse passing off case relating to engine filters; case settled prior to trial.
• American International Group, Inc. v. Intellirisk Management Corporation (S.D. Ohio 1999).  Represented Plaintiff in trademark action where mark and relatedness of financial and insurance services at issue; case settled prior to trial.

Speaking Engagements and Presentations

• Guest lecturer, DePaul University, College of Law

Bar Admissions and Registrations

• Illinois, 1997

Courts

• Illinois Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Languages

• German
• Spanish
• French
• Italian