World IP Review Ranks Crowell & Moring in USA Trademarks Rankings 2024
Firm News | 2 min read | 01.17.25
Chicago – January 17, 2025: World IP Review ranked Crowell & Moring in its USA Trademark Rankings 2024. These rankings are “a comprehensive guide showcasing the leading law firms and lawyers in the field of trademark law in the United States.”
The firm achieved Recommended status in both the contentious and non-contentious categories. In addition, three individual practitioners received rankings:
- Partner Andrew Avsec, Recommended, Contentious; Notable, Non-Contentious
- Partner Kent Goss, Recommended, Contentious
- Partner Valerie Goo, Recommended, Contentious
Avsec serves as managing partner of the firm’s Chicago office. Andrew advises clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies on complex brand protection, copyright, advertising, trade secret, and social media issues. Andrew has represented some of the world’s most prominent brands.
Goss, a first chair trial lawyer with over 35 years of experience, focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, technology litigation, and large complex commercial litigation matters. Clients come to Kent for their most important matters—“bet the company” disputes and where the stakes can be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Goo is a trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience and serves as managing partner of Crowell’s Los Angeles office. She has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts across the country in the areas of complex commercial litigation, trademark infringement, unfair competition, trade secrets, false advertising, and consumer class action.
To learn more about the firm’s Trademark Counseling and Litigation practice, please visit here.
To see the full rankings, please visit here.
About Crowell & Moring LLP
Crowell & Moring is an international law firm with operations in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Drawing on significant government, business, industry and legal experience, the firm helps clients capitalize on opportunities and provides creative solutions to complex litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and corporate and transactional issues. The firm is consistently recognized for its commitment to pro bono service as well as its programs and initiatives to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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