Amy Pruett counsels companies and individuals in global industries on protecting, maintaining and enforcing their rights in brands, names, marks, copyrights, and other intellectual property assets. Amy helps parties navigate through complex and challenging conflicts to identify interest-based solutions, through mediation, collaborative negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution.
Amy Pruett counsels companies and individuals in global industries on protecting, maintaining and enforcing their rights in brands, names, marks, copyrights, and other intellectual property assets. Amy helps parties navigate through complex and challenging conflicts to identify interest-based solutions, through mediation, collaborative negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution.
Amy is experienced in litigating, negotiating, mediating and collaboratively resolving business disputes, including domain name, copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Virginia State Courts and U.S. Federal Courts.
As an accomplished pianist, vocalist and yogi, Amy devotes significant attention to the practice of entertainment & music law as well as health and wellness. She has more than two decades of working experience in the music industry, both on the business side, licensing and collecting royalties through international music rights societies, and on the legal side, representing prominent, Grammy-winning recording artists, songwriters, producers, managers, record labels, publishers and well-known media companies. Amy also teaches a course on Music Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia, School of Law, and speaks and writes frequently on wellbeing and work-life balance practices.
Amy earned her Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine School of Law, and she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College.
Speaking Engagements
- Speaker, "Cover Your Global Assets" co-hosted by Virginia Manufacturers Association in July 2020, and various local organizations in 2019.
- Speaker and Writer, "How to make your campaign sing," Advertising Clubs in Virginia and Washington D.C., 2016
- Speaker/Panelist, IBMA Festival, Raleigh, NC, September 2015
- Speaker and Panelist, Museums & Copyrights: Coming of Age in the Digital Age, Virginia Association of Museums, March 2011
- Speaker, Mythbusters Legal Style: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You! American Advertising Federation of Hampton Roads, December 2010
- Speaker, International Copyright Issues, Inside Business, March 2009
- Co-mediated complex business disputes and interpersonal emotional conflicts.
- Developing, managing and enforcing the rights of international trademark and service mark portfolios for Grammy-winning artists and well-known festivals, film, management and media companies.
- Negotiating and drafting complex international licensing agreements for festivals, producers, recording artists, media companies, software developers, coffee suppliers, health care organizations, and other businesses.
- Handling trademark prosecution, opposition and cancellation proceedings with the USPTO and TTAB for U.S. and International clients with large trademark portfolios.
- Worldwide trademark and copyright protection, enforcement, prosecution, brand development and strategy for numerous individuals and companies.
- Challenged numerous domain names that contained a famous artist’s name and marks.
- Advises and strategizes with beverage manufacturer on maintenance of existing trademarks and selection of new brands.
- Challenged similar trademarks through opposition proceedings before the TTAB on behalf of a software company with numerous international trademark registrations.
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12.16.2020
Williams Mullen Team Represents Virginia American Industries in Sale
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08.20.2020
Pruett Talks Lawyer Well-Being with Virginia Lawyers Weekly
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06.18.2020
PODCAST: Intellectual Contracts
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05.29.2020
PODCAST: Intellectual Projects – Dusting off the Idea Files
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05.04.2020
Williams Mullen Supports Lawyer Well-Being Week May 4 - 8
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03.27.2020
Intellectual Property Offices Offer Relief Around the World Amid COVID-19 Crisis
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11.18.2019
Work-Life Synchronicity in the Legal Profession
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08.07.2019
Amy Pruett and Jackie Knapp Alert on Offensive Trademarks Republished on NCBarBlog
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08.05.2019
Williams Mullen Represents The C.F. Sauer Company in Sale to Private Equity Firm
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06.26.2019
First Amendment Is a Friend U Can Trust to Register Offensive Trademarks
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11.12.2018
Amy Pruett Discusses Songwriter Association's Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
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10.06.2017
Williams Mullen Helps Cary Street Partners Close $18.9 Million Financing
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09.21.2017
Williams Mullen Helps ivWatch Secure Licensing and Distribution Agreement with Global Manufacturer
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06.21.2017
Amy Marino Analyzes Impact of SCOTUS Decision on Washington Redskins with NewsRadio WINA
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02.17.2016
56 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2016 Virginia Super Lawyers; 22 Named 2016 Rising Stars
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07.09.2015
Amy Marino interviewed by WINA about Redskins trademark
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04.10.2015
Williams Mullen Virginia Attorneys Named 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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03.27.2015
Clearing Up the Confusion as to Preclusion: Supreme Court’s Trademark Ruling Gives Deference to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)
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06.20.2014
Williams Mullen Virginia Attorneys Named 2014 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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01.31.2014
Speak Now? Sunrise Periods Closing on New gTLDs
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06.21.2013
Williams Mullen Virginia Attorneys Named 2013 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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01.28.2013
Williams Mullen Announces the Election of Four New Partners
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06.19.2012
Ninety-Five Virginia Williams Mullen Attorneys Recognized by “Super Lawyers” for 2012
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01.09.2012
ICANN Under Fire on Eve of New GTLD Release
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09.15.2011
The Joinder Provision in the Patent Reform Act: Leveling the Playing Field Against Multi-Defendant NPE Suits
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09.15.2011
Planning for the First to File
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08.29.2011
eXXXamining Your Brand: Sunrise Period for Trademark Owners to Prevent From Becoming .XXX Domains Starts September 7, 2011
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06.27.2011
47 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named “Virginia Super Lawyers” and 35 Named “Virginia Rising Stars” for 2011
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06.23.2011
ICANN Makes Hundreds of New gTLDs Available as of 2012
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06.23.2010
2010 Virginia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Announced
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09.10.2008
Amy G. Marino Joins Williams Mullen