Rick’s practice includes counseling clients in the areas of selection, adoption, use, and protection and enforcement of trademarks and domain names; anti-counterfeiting; the registration of trademarks and copyrights on a worldwide basis; licensing; and advertising and promotions law compliance. Rick has been ranked by the World Trademark Review to the WTR 1000 for trademark enforcement and litigation. Rick represents a wide range of clients from small and mid-sized corporations to some of the most iconic brands. His clients include large multinational financial services institutions; national trade associations; national and international retailers and QSR’s; manufacturers of well-known consumer brand products, jewelry, food products, apparel, and alcohol beverages; and electronics and technology companies. Rick also proudly represents a number of local and national not-for-profit organizations on a pro bono basis.Rick’s extensive litigation experience includes proceedings involving trademark, copyright, and advertising disputes before U.S. Federal Courts, the USPTO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Rick also is an experienced mediator in the area of trademark law and has served as an expert witness in cases involving trademark law.Rick holds several leadership positions within the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the American Bar Association-Intellectual Property Law Section (ABA-IPL). Rick currently serves as a member of the ABA-IPL Section’s Council and is recent Past-Chair of the Trademarks Division for the ABA-IPL Section. In addition, Rick previously served as the Chair of INTA’s Pro Bono Committee and a member of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and now serves on INTA’s U.S. Legislation Subcommittee where he is engaged in the development of trademark legislation and policy on Capitol Hill and in the USPTO.

Rick Biagi joined Hewitt as a Technology Analyst for a large scale electronic document imaging project. Rick was later promoted to Project Manager where his responsibilities included managing a project team for firm-wide document management solution, managing vendor selection, drafting requests for proposals, organizing training and designing internal workflows for software implementation.

Rick Biagi joined SBMS as an Account Executive managing small and medium-sized business accounts in the Chicago market. Rick was later promoted to Technology Consultant. His responsibilities included providing technology consulting to large and medium sized business clients, negotiating vendor relationships, directing marketing of wireless data communications products and training corporate sales staff.