The Lawyer Network is delighted to announce that Gloria Pinza of Pierce Atwood LLP has joined the Lawyer Network. Gloria has joined the Lawyer Network as our exclusive IP Law member in Maine.
Whether leading strategic growth initiatives for her clients or for Pierce Atwood LLP as its Managing Partner, Gloria combines extensive experience in intellectual property law with a hands-on appreciation of the business and legal imperatives that can determine a venture's success. Gloria helps clients navigate through the increasingly complex convergence of technology and business, offering practical and strategic advice in the areas of trademark, copyright, internet law, licensing, software development, entertainment law and a full range of IP-related business transactions.
Prior to becoming managing partner, Gloria was a member of the firm's Management Committee and the Leader of Pierce Atwood's Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. Passionate about helping fledgling businesses and other entrepreneurs realize their business potential, Gloria was instrumental in creating and developing the firm's Catalyst Program, a program designed to provide affordable legal services to emerging companies.
Recent Experience
• Advising and strategizing with clients regarding national and international trademark, patent, and copyright portfolio management, protection, enforcement and licensing
• Negotiating agreements for software development and licensing mission critical systems fundamental to her clients' businesses
• Negotiating the purchase and sale of businesses with significant intellectual property rights and assets
• Advising clients in all aspects of web site development and e-business initiatives
• Negotiating and preparing trademark, copyright and patent licenses
• Conducting intellectual property due diligence for mergers and acquisitions
• Representing writers, producers and directors in connection with television and motion picture rights, acquisitions, talent agreements, financing and production matters
Honors & Distinctions
Gloria was recently selected as one of 21 accomplished women attorneys who make up the 2009 class of the DirectWomen Board Institute. The Institute is an initiative of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section, designed to identify and promote qualified women lawyers to serve on corporate boards of public companies. Gloria is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions, for Intellectual Property Law; she has an AV® rating in Martindale-Hubbell.
About Pierce Atwood LLP
Pierce Atwood is a full service law firm with over 20 practice areas, including Intellectual Property & Technology. In an economy where new technologies and new entrants into highly competitive markets only intensify the importance of identifying, protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights, our Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group assists clients with all legal issues and transactional matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, data protection and privacy. We handle work on the cutting edge of software, the life sciences, advanced materials processing and high-tech manufacturing.
Intellectual Property & Technology Areas of Expertise:
• Patents
• Biotechnology
• IP Licensing & Transactions
• Trademark
• Copyright
• Privacy & Data Security
• Entertainment Law
Our firm is more than 120 years old, with offices throughout the north eastern United States and in Washington DC. Our clients range from regional and local enterprises, utilities, financiers, middle-market companies, entrepreneurs and individuals to Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, and state and foreign governments. Learn more at www.pierceatwood.com.
If you have a requirement in this area, please get in touch with Gloria directly or with the Lawyer Network committee:
Glorias Profile
info@thelawyer-network.com
We welcome Gloria to the network and look forward to working with her on future transactions.
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