Tara Vold focuses her practice on U.S. and international trademark clearance, portfolio management and protection, and also on advertising, unfair competition, consumer protection and Internet counseling. She represents companies in trademark, domain name and copyright dispute proceedings, including Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and domain name arbitration proceedings, and in negotiating settlement agreements in these areas.

Tara handles a wide range of matters relating to various aspects of intellectual property law, including prosecution before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, international intellectual property prosecution, the drafting and negotiation of license agreements, managing the intellectual property aspects of  corporate transactions and resolving domain name and other internet-related conflicts. She also has substantial intellectual property litigation experience, having worked on numerous  trademark and copyright litigation matters in several Federal District Courts.

Trademark:

• Evaluation of potential marks, including availability searches and opinions
• Applications for and registrations of trademarks
• Enforcement of trademark rights and trademark disputes
• Trademark protection and development programs
• Development of brand manuals
• Oppositions and cancellations
• Sending and responding to cease and desist letters
• Trademark licenses and other transactions involving trademarks, including acquisition of marks
• Domain name acquisition and protection, including UDRP proceedings
• Trademark portfolio management
• Litigation and settlements

Copyright:

• Registration
• Enforcement of copyrights
• Copyright licenses and transactions involving trademarks
• Sending and responding to cease and desist letters
• Disputes and settlements involving copyrights
• Litigation

General IP:

• IP evaluations and due diligence
• Rights clearance work involving issues such as copyright, trademark, right of privacy/publicity and defamation
• Trade secret matters
• False advertising matters

Tara represents clients in the pharmaceutical and information services arena, as well as clients in the powersports, consumer products, tobacco, media, financial services, and other industries.

• Issued opinions in hundreds of trademark clearance matters
• Obtained successful decisions for clients in over 50 arbitration proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure (UDRP)
• Managed and counseled on aspects of the acquisition and management of an international trademark portfolio for multiple clients

• International Trademark Association (INTA) - Online Reference Committee (2012 - 2013)
• American Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section
• Licensing Executive Society

• Co-author, "Trademark Searching and Clearance," Practical Law Company, 2011
• Co-author, "Supreme Court Holds That Federal Court Retains Jurisdiction Over Unregistered Copyrights Even Where Registration Precondition Is Not Met," Fulbright Briefing, March 11, 2010
• Co-author, "Program IV: Global Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright and Internet Highlights," The Embassy Row Series, September 16, 2008

1996 - J.D., Northwestern University School of Law.
1993 - B.A., cum laude, Dartmouth College

Tara was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1996 and Virginia and the District of Columbia in 1998. She also was admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 1997 and the Eastern District of Virginia in 1999.

Tara is an active member of her local community, holding positions as PTO Board Member Spring Hill Elementary School, counsel for the Hamlet Tennis and Swim Club, Girl Scout Troop Leader and Basketball Coach.