Get Traction offers a 15-week interactive online course on Design Law and Licensing tailored specifically for Design Entrepreneurs who want to lower risk and increase revenue through fearless management of their intellectual property as it flows through the marketplace. Participants are personally coached while they guide their own virtual product through the entire journey from idea to commercial licensing success and beyond. They will prototype, iterate, and play with negotiation skills, contracts, copyrights, design patents, trademarks, trade dress, and infringement - in other words, take a fun design-centric approach to understanding how to utilize design law in every aspect of their business.Whether one is a recent grad with a commercially viable invention, a maker who sells B2B or B2C, or a corporate employee who yearns for the independence that a licensing business model can provide, Get Traction gives designers the confidence to ensure that their designs can fuel their business growth as efficiently and effortlessly as possible.www.GetTraction.win

The firm's intellectual property transaction and litigation practice focuses on two broad areas: art & design, and business & branding. We provide clients with a long-term comprehensive IP strategy that they can implement in accordance with their budget and business goals.IP TRANSACTIONSArts, Entertainment, & Design - We counsel clients on how to protect and monetize their creative expressions, be they in the fine or performing arts, literature, fashion, merchandise, graphics, entertainment, software, or consumer product industries. We ensure that our clients understand why they should pursue IP protection as well as the different roles that copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets play in a well-managed business. Once the IP ventures out into the marketplace, we review and prepare contracts that protect the value of the IP throughout its commercial life, in particular licensing, independent contractor, manufacturing, and distribution agreements.Business & branding - We provide counsel and contracts for business matters especially where they overlap with intellectual property, including long-term trademark management, copyright protection of business documents, online contracts, advertising and Federal Trade Commission compliance, and asset transfers and due diligence. We also counsel employers on how to manage employee use of their intellectual property and trade secrets.IP LITIGATIONWe represent both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and contract disputes in negotiations, mediation, and if necessary, in court. We are fierce and fearless in the courtroom but conduct litigation with the highest regard for civility, diligence, and professionalism. Admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. NOT TAKING NEW CLIENTSwww.lippincottip.com

"Licensed to Win," an article on Design Law & Licensing under Design Entrepreneurship, published in INNOVATION magazine, the quarterly publication of IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America).

SCHOOL OF DESIGN STRATEGIESBachelor of Business Administration, Strategic Design & Management:Intellectual PropertyBusiness Regulations and PracticesMasters of Strategic Design and Management:Regulatory and Ethical Constructs of Business

SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN - 2014-2015Department of Industrial Design - Master's Degree ProgramThe Business of DesignCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STUDIES - 2013-2016Certificate Program in Design EntrepreneurshipStaying Out Of TroubleCONTINUING EDUCATION 2007 - 2012Entrepreneurship.

Assisted with Intellectual Property, Employment, and Corporate transactions and litigation. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Lanham Act, idea misappropriation, and FLSA litigation. Drafted letters to clients, judges, and opposing parties. Reviewed and revised employment handbooks.

Managed Clinic's trademark portfolio. Drafted and filed provisional patent and trademarks. Drafted contracts.

Founder of an eponymous branded international luxury home and fashion accessories company. Responsible for all design and oversaw manufacturing, marketing, sales, import/export, finance, and legal. Accounts included Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Fred Segal, ABC Carpet & Home, etc. Products featured on MTV and The View and in The Wall St. Journal, GQ, Southern Homes, the Ritz-Carlton Magazine, etc. Negotiated successful licensing of infringed design patent. Provided industrial design services for manufacturers selling to mass-market retailers.

Renovations and interior design, golf course landscaping, graphic design, land and aerial photography.

Largest stock photography business in the world. Managed accounts in Japan, South Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Traveled to Moscow to negotiate a licensing agreement with Novosti, the Soviet news agency. Photo editor. Ranked 1/8 in sales as photo researcher.

Covered the America's Cup in Newport and goings-on in Philadelphia.

Filmed the fertilization of clam, sea urchin, and mouse eggs through an interference-phase microscope for a fertility research. Accomplished project's goal to film mammalian fertilization under ultra-low light.