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Bio
Anna Antonova is an Associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Team at Lippes Mathias LLP, where she focuses her practice on copyright and trademark litigation and represents brand owners before federal courts nationwide, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission.
Ms. Antonova also maintains an active counseling practice, guiding startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies at every stage of the intellectual property lifecycle, including clearance and prosecution, global portfolio strategy, enforcement and anti-counterfeiting, and licensing. Her industry experience spans beauty, fashion, consumer goods, entertainment, technology, hospitality, and financial services sectors.
Before joining Lippes Mathias, Ms. Antonova was a trademark and copyright associate at a national law firm where she handled portfolios, enforcement and litigations for household-name brands.
As a law student, Ms. Antonova was an intern on the intellectual property enforcement team of a global luxury conglomerate, where she helped police iconic trademarks across its fashion and beauty portfolio. She also served as an extern in the New York State Office of the Attorney General, working on high-profile litigations and investigations. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and was a research assistant in fashion law to Professor Barbara Kolsun and in design law to Professor Christopher Buccafusco.
Ms. Antonova entered the legal field from the intersection of business management and brand communications. She previously held a practice management role at an elite international law firm, where she designed strategy and workflows to improve efficiency and delivery of legal services. Before that, she worked in public relations, conceiving and executing media campaigns for beauty, fashion, and consumer goods brands. That foundation gives her an intuitive understanding of how brands are built and perceived in the marketplace.
Representative Matters:
- Defended a nail products brand in a trademark infringement action in the Eastern District of Virginia after a prior default judgment exposed the client to over $250,000 in damages and attorney’s fees. Presented oral argument and won dismissal with prejudice, reducing the monetary judgment to $25,000 with no award of attorney’s fees.
- Served as a member of the trial team in a Section 337 patent infringement investigation before the International Trade Commission involving braiding hair products.
- Represents a leading consumer electronics brand in parallel trademark and design patent infringement litigations pending in the Western District of Washington and the Northern District of Illinois.
- Represented a leading beverage brand in trademark litigation in the Southern District of New York through to a favorable settlement.
- Defended an apparel manufacturer in copyright and trademark infringement claims arising from a textile pattern in the Eastern District of New York.
- Represented an iconic performance group in parallel bet-the-company trademark ownership and infringement lawsuits in the Central District of California.
- Defended a mobile game developer in a copyright and trademark infringement suit in the Eastern District of New York.
