Focus Areas
Ted’s experience includes:
- Managing over 1,700 U.S. trademark applications and registrations and over 4,800 foreign trademark applications and registrations spanning more than 140 countries.
- Representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 1000 companies in the personal care, fashion, retail, consumer electronics, heavy industry, entertainment and hospitality industries in protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights.
- Representing clients in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings around the world and in compelling the transfer of infringing internet domains.
- Advising on global strategies for protecting and enforcing brand rights of leading television personalities.
- Providing advice and direction on intellectual property rights acquired through acquisitions and licensing, and on cost-effective strategies for maintaining acquired portfolios.
- Managed multi-year dispute in China that successfully acquired rights to client’s brand.
- Providing patent acquisition and clearance advice on a wide range of technologies.
- Included in the 2017-2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for Trademark Law
- Included in the 2015-2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for Copyright Law
- Selected to the 2015-2024 Ohio Super Lawyers lists (Intellectual Property)
- Included in the 2013-2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Named the Best Lawyers® 2022 Trademark Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati
- Named the Best Lawyers® 2017 Litigation – Intellectual Property “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati
- Named the Best Lawyers® 2015 Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in Cincinnati
- Included in the 2013-2017 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for Patent Law
- Included in the 2013-2016 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation – Patent
Professional Associations
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Cincinnati Bar Association
- International Trademark Association
- Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association
Education
- University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 1993
- Brooklyn Polytechnic University, M.S., 1990,
Mechanical Engineering
- University of Cincinnati, B.S., 1985,
Mechanical Engineering
Bar Admissions
- Ohio
Court Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit