Laura Goldbard George is the Co-Chair of Stroock’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group. She concentrates in trademark, copyright and unfair competition law litigation. She has extensive litigation experience in the U.S. courts and abroad, as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, representing plaintiffs and defendants in the clothing, luggage, health and beauty aid, food and beverages, snuff and other tobacco products, financial services and family entertainment industries.
Laura manages trademark and copyright portfolios for many clients, advising them on intellectual property issues related to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, negotiating and drafting merger and acquisition documents and licensing agreements, performing due diligence, prosecuting their intellectual property rights in both domestic and international forums and providing general counsel. She also negotiates and drafts trademark license agreements for both licensors and licensees, counsels debtors in bankruptcy and advises parties to securitizations, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions regarding intellectual property interests.
Laura sits on the executive board of Volunteer Lawyers of the Arts. She has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Super Lawyers recognized her skill as an IP lawyer and as one of the “Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area.” She is nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States for Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation and Intellectual Property: Copyright.
Laura’s representations have included:
Laura has been recognized by Crain's New York Business: 2020 Notable Women in Law and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Super Lawyers for her work in Intellectual Property. She was also recognized by Super Lawyers in the “Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area,” a special New York Times Magazine supplement devoted to female attorneys from the New York Metro Super Lawyers list. In addition, Laura is nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States for Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation and Intellectual Property: Copyright.
Quoted in:
New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1981
B.A., Emory University, 1978
Laura Goldbard George is the Co-Chair of Stroock’s Intellectual Property and Technology Group. She concentrates in trademark, copyright and unfair competition law litigation. She has extensive litigation experience in the U.S. courts and abroad, as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, representing plaintiffs and defendants in the clothing, luggage, health and beauty aid, food and beverages, snuff and other tobacco products, financial services and family entertainment industries.
Laura manages trademark and copyright portfolios for many clients, advising them on intellectual property issues related to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, negotiating and drafting merger and acquisition documents and licensing agreements, performing due diligence, prosecuting their intellectual property rights in both domestic and international forums and providing general counsel. She also negotiates and drafts trademark license agreements for both licensors and licensees, counsels debtors in bankruptcy and advises parties to securitizations, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions regarding intellectual property interests.
Laura sits on the executive board of Volunteer Lawyers of the Arts. She has been recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Super Lawyers recognized her skill as an IP lawyer and as one of the “Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area.” She is nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States for Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation and Intellectual Property: Copyright.
Laura’s representations have included:
Laura has been recognized by Crain's New York Business: 2020 Notable Women in Law and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Super Lawyers for her work in Intellectual Property. She was also recognized by Super Lawyers in the “Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area,” a special New York Times Magazine supplement devoted to female attorneys from the New York Metro Super Lawyers list. In addition, Laura is nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States for Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation and Intellectual Property: Copyright.
Quoted in:
New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1981
B.A., Emory University, 1978
Intellectual Property Provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021
Trademark Plaintiffs Need Not Prove Infringer’s Willfulness for Disgorging Profits
Stroock Ranked in 9 Practice Areas by Chambers USA 2019; 25 Leading Lawyers Recognized
Laura Goldbard George Quoted in “Supreme Court Briefing: Timing Is Key in Copyright Case”
"December 31 Deadline for Electronically Registering DMCA Agents with the Copyright Office"