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Nerissa Coyle McGinn
Senior Counsel

Nerissa Coyle McGinn practices intellectual property law, focusing on trademark clearance and counseling, as well as services for advanced media and advertising industry clients. She works with many of the best-known brands in the country, helping her clients to develop new brand assets and assisting them in the protection and exploitation of their intellectual property in advertising and marketing. Ms. McGinn advises clients in all forms of advertising and promotions initiatives, including sweepstakes review, copy review, and promotion design and fulfillment, with a particular emphasis on internet and interactive advertising and promotions. She also specializes in legal services for clients producing content for mobile devices, handling a variety of intellectual property matters in connection with video game applications.

Ms. McGinn’s diverse roster of clients includes Turner Broadcasting and its programming properties, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and its confection brands, professional sports teams such as the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins, and other major advertisers and advertising agencies.

As a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), Ms. McGinn has been active in helping to launch INTA’s law student ambassador program and a related scholarship for trademark lawyers to attend the annual meeting. At Loeb & Loeb, she serves as a contributing author to the Advanced Media and Technology Law Blog and is also an active member of the firm’s Diversity Committee, heading the Affinity Group which promotes attorneys of color within the firm.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of Turner Broadcasting – Cartoon Network, CNN, truTV, TBS and Turner Sports – in connection with trademark clearances for the media company’s new shows, web properties, interstitials and sweepstakes.
  • Representation of the Los Angeles based advertising agency Pitch in IP and advertising matters related to the agency’s representations of companies such as Burger King Corporation, Asics America, and Nickelodeon.
  • Representation of Silver Chalice Ventures, which co-owns and operates new media based properties such as the ACC Digital Network and Total College Sports, in IP matters related to the agency’s television-style video properties distributed to all connected devices such as smart phones, tablets and advanced television platforms.

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Affiliations

  • Co-Chair of the Student Member Project Team, International Trademark Association
  • Member, Promotions Marketing Association
  • Member, Chicago Bar Association
  • Member, Asian-American Bar Association

Distinctions

  • Adjunct Professor, Intellectual Property Legal Writing; U.S. Advertising Law, John Marshall Law School
  • Former Instructor, Undergraduate Trial Advocacy, University of Illinois

Practice Areas
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1997, cum laude
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1994, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
Illinois, 1997
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Trial Bar
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
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