Ann K. Ford practices in the area of US and international trademark and copyright law, including the emerging law governing the use and protection of intellectual property on the Internet.

Ms. Ford advises clients with respect to business and transactional aspects of intellectual property, as well as litigation and pre-litigation protective measures. She works with clients to acquire, develop and exploit intellectual property assets and has specific experience in restructuring intellectual property assets for tax planning and developing joint venture arrangements to support co-branding efforts. She has extensive experience in working with both mature and emerging companies on developing and strengthening brands in a wide variety of industries. Ms. Ford utilizes her background in communications and media law to counsel clients on the specialized and unique issues faced by those industries. She advises clients on the use of other intellectual property and conducts compliance programs for businesses on their use of copyrighted material. She also protects clients' intellectual property through the courts, agencies and of uniform dispute resolution procedures.

The respected English research publisher Chambers and Partners recognizes Ms. Ford as one of America's leading lawyers for intellectual property, commenting that her clients value her "practical and realistic advice” and that she “always keeps the client’s business goals in mind.” Ms. Ford is listed in An International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers and in the Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Practitioners 2004. She has been named by the Legal Times as one of the leading intellectual property attorneys in the Washington, DC area. She is an active member of the International Trademark Association's Information Resources Committee, Online Reference Subcommittee.  She has also served on the project team for INTA's Trademarks in Cyberspace program on the use of trademarks on the Internet. Ms. Ford has been a featured speaker on intellectual property issues relating to trademark organizations, including INTA, American Society of Picture Professionals, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts and the District of Columbia Bar Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law Section. She has authored various scholarly works on the subject of intellectual property law, as well as articles on trademark and copyright law for general trade publications. She was listed in the 2005 Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. In 2007, Washingtonian magazine named her to its list of Washington's top lawyers. She has been named a Washington, DC Super Lawyer.

Ms. Ford is the managing partner of DLA Piper's Washington, DC office; chair of the firm's Trademark, Copyright and Media Practice Group. She is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee as well as a member of DLA Piper's firmwide Policy Committee.

資格

• District of Columbia
• New York

メンバーシップ

• International Trademark Association (Member, Information Resources Committee, Online Reference Subcommittee)
• American Bar Association (Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section; Chair: Committee 904 - Public Information)
• Associate Editor, Law and Contemporary Problems, 1978-1980

執筆・出版

• "The Intellectual Property Handbook: A Practical Guide for Franchise, Business and IP Counsel," Chapter 2 Trademarks--International, American Bar Association, 2005
• "Successful Brand Management in the United States," IP Value 2004: Building and Enforcing Intellectual Property Value. An International Guide for the Boardroom, Globe White Page, 2004
• Review Editor, Trademark Law & The Internet Issues, Case Law, and Practice Tips, Supplement to Second Edition, International Trademark Association, 2003
• Co-author, "Review of the 1989 Trademark Decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit," 39 Am. U. L. Rev. 1233, 1990
• Co-author, "What's In A Name: Protecting Yours Is Good Business," Phone and The Monthly Journal for the Public Communications Industry, October 1994