Christina Martini

Practice Areas

Partner As Global Head of McDermott’s Trademark Prosecution and Controversy Practice, Christina (Tina) L. Martini focuses her practice on domestic and international trademark and copyright law, as well as domain name, Internet, social media, advertising, unfair competition and entertainment law. Tina has extensive experience in counseling, prosecution, enforcement, due diligence and licensing matters. She successfully assists clients in protecting their intellectual property rights through litigation and other means, including the courts and uniform dispute resolution procedures.

Tina’s experience reaches across a wide variety of business sectors, including the pharmaceutical/life sciences sector, food and beverage industry, housewares, apparel, energy, agriculture, consulting, restaurant, franchising, advertising, real estate and financial services.

Tina advises clients in the areas of brand development and management. She works closely with clients from the beginning stages of product development and provides strategic advice in searching and filing for brand names domestically and internationally. She creates global filing strategies to maximize clients’ protection of their valuable brands in a streamlined, cost-effective way, and manages the global registration, maintenance, enforcement, licensing and disposition of those rights.

Tina also advises clients regarding website domain name, social media and online advertising strategy and enforcement. She creates and implements intellectual property policies and process plans which are specifically tailored to meet clients’ legal and business needs.

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Professional Memberships

The American Bar Foundation, member

American Bar Association, member

Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, member

Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago, member

Chicago Bar Association, member

Illinois State Bar Association, member

International Trademark Association, member

Publications

Co-host of the WGN Radio show Legal Face-Off, one of the nation’s premier legal programs. Host and producer of the weekly legal podcast Paradigm Shift. Frequent speaker and author on a myriad of topics impacting the legal and business landscapes. Regular columnist for the Chicago Lawyer and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.