Heather J. Kliebenstein,  Attorney
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Education

Iowa State University
B.S., Environmental Sciences, magna cum laude, 2000
Phi Beta Kappa

University of Texas School of Law
J.D., cum laude, 2004

Bar Admissions

Minnesota State Bar, 2004
U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 2004

Heather is an intellectual property attorney focusing in trademark, patent, and copyright litigation matters, and trademark and copyright prosecution. She is involved in all elements of civil litigation and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings. Heather has prepared many briefs and pleadings, including appeal pleadings, and is experienced in handling discovery matters and disputes.

She represents clients involved in domestic and foreign trademark oppositions and cancellation proceedings, and litigates trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising, trademark counterfeiting and trademark dilution cases in state and federal courts. Heather also represents clients seeking to register copyrights, and litigates copyright infringement cases in federal courts. Finally, Heather uses her background in biology, chemistry, and physics to represent clients in patent litigation cases in federal court.

Publications

Fighting Counterfeiting and Piracy, IP Law360 (July 23, 2007)

Does Phillips v. AWH Mean the Life is Out of the "Life and Meaning" Test for Whether Claim Preambles are Limitations?, American Intellectual Property Law Association (summer 2007)

Recent Federal Circuit SanDisk Decision Affirms MedImmune, Giving Licensees More Leverage, Merchant & Gould White Paper (2007)

What's in the Toolbox, Protecting and Collecting: Advising Business Clients Victimized by Pirates and Counterfeiters, Washington State Bar Association (2007)

Supreme Court Decision Gives Licensees Leverage, IP LAW 260 (2007)

Parody Brand Leaves Louis Vuitton Licking its Wounds, The Journal of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (2007)

Transacting the Information Marketplace: Infringement is Easy, and Easily Avoided, Minnesota Bench & Bar (2005)