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Anna Kuhn

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Anna Kuhn focuses her practice on trademark selection and clearance, U.S. and international trademark registration, rights policing and enforcement, and domain name and internet issues. She represents clients in registration matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and handles disputes including opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and UDRP proceedings. Her work includes negotiating license agreements, performing due diligence for trademarks involved in corporate transactions, and advising clients concerning copyright issues and rights of publicity.

Anna’s clients span a wide variety of industries and stages of development, as she frequently represented start-up companies while running her own trademark law practice for six years. Her background also includes working as in-house trademark counsel for a Fortune 100 company, and she is experienced in developing corporate policies regarding trademarks and copyrights and providing related training to in-house staff.

Anna earned her J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1996. Before law school, she graduated with high honors from the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in government.

Outside the office, Anna enjoys photography, community service, and spending time with her husband, Kurt, and their children, Eli and Lucy.

“Anna is 'bright and personable,' she has accumulated an unrivalled level of branding know-how...she offers 'a very experienced – yet cost-efficient – service'.”

WORLD TRADEMARK REVIEW'S WTR 1000 (2017)

“Anna has valuable in-house experience which informs her pragmatic and commercial approach. Her counsel is ready to put into action right away, so you can crack on with business.”

World Trademark Review's WTR 1000 (2021)

Anna Kuhn “has experience in-house and so provides exceptionally practical and commercial advice on protection, policing and enforcement" and is “by far one of the sharpest lawyers out there.”

World Trademark Review's WTR 1000 (2020)

“'A brilliant writer' with 'a gift for distilling her advice into easy-to-understand summaries that can virtually be cut and pasted and sent along to your internal business clients.'”

World Trademark Review's WTR 1000 (2019)

“Kuhn really knows how to cut to the chase and excels at understanding risk tolerances – she is a pragmatic and superb attorney.”

World Trademark Review's WTR 1000 (2018)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • 1996 J.D., Yale Law School
  • 1993 B.A., The University of Texas

HONORS

  • The Best Lawyers in America® Trademark Law, by Woodward/White, Inc. (2019-2023)
  • WTR 1000 The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals, World Trademark Review (2017-2023)
  • IP Stars, Managing Intellectual Property (2016-2022)
  • Top 250 Women in IP, Managing Intellectual Property (2016-2021)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • International Trademark Association
    • Non-Traditional Trade Marks Committee (Feb 2021-2023)
    • Pro Bono Committee (2018-2019)
  • Austin Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow

SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONS