Webinar: FBA Friday: Focus on Fashion Law and IP

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Presented by the FBA’s Intellectual Property Law Section as a resource for Judicial Intern Academy participants as well as FBA law students and new attorneys. The section’s immediate past chair, Olivera Medenica, will share details about her career path, her expertise in the fields of fashion law and intellectual property law (among other fields); and her leadership of the FBA’s SDNY Chapter and the IP Law Section. She will also provide an overview of the successful Fashion Law Conferences. Past section chair Oliver Ruiz will serve as moderator, and there will be an opportunity for questions.

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Presenters

Olivera Medenica, Partner, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP

Olivera Medenica CIPP/CIPM is an equity partner at Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP, and is a member of its intellectual property, privacy, advertising, art and fashion law, international, and litigation and arbitration practice groups.  Olivera is also a member of Dunnington’s Executive Committee, chairs its Trademark Practice Group, Privacy Practice Group as well as its Diversity Committee.

Olivera’s intellectual property practice consists of “soft IP”: copyright, trademark and trade secrets.   In addition to her litigation practice, she prosecutes trademarks before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and first chairs contentious opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board.  She has co-authored five books in the field of intellectual property:  Navigating Fashion Law, Aspatore’s Inside the Minds Series, Thomson Reuters (2015 Edition); the American Bar Association’s Legal Guide to Fashion Design (2013);  The Business and Law of Fashion and Retail, Carolina Academic Press (2020);  The Routledge Companion to Copyright and Creativity in the 21st Century, Taylor & Francis Group (2020); The Fashion Designer Survival Guide (chapter covering IP) (2020). Olivera has also served as an arbitrator in intellectual property disputes.

Olivera is an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School where she teaches Fashion Law and an adjunct professor of law at Cardozo Law School where she teaches Advertising Law. She is also a visiting professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on the topic of Fashion Law. Olivera has lectured widely on issues dealing with intellectual property, ecommerce, social media and wearable technology.  Lecture engagements have included Lawline.com, the Federal Bar Association, New York County Lawyers’ Association, the New York City Bar, the New York State Bar Association, Harvard Law School, Brooklyn Law School, New York Law School, South by Southwest Interactive, Cardozo Law School, the School of Visual Arts, Manhattan School of Music, Direct Marketing Association Conference (Geek-End), and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

She has also written articles for a variety of publications including the New York Law Journal, National Law Journal, Ecommerce Law and Strategy, Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review and the Internet Law Journal.  Olivera is an Advisory Board Member of the New York Law School Innovation Center for Law and Technology, Fashion Law Initiative.  She is also the founder of an annual Fashion Law Conference hosted by the Federal Bar Association’s IP Section, in New York and Paris.  Both conferences were featured in the Huffington Post, Forbes and Intellectual Property Watch.

Oliver A. Ruiz, Partner, Malloy & Malloy, P.L. (Moderator)

Oliver A. Ruiz is a Partner with the intellectual property law firm of Malloy & Malloy, P.L. (www.malloylaw.com), and oversees the firm’s litigation department, representing clients as lead or local counsel in federal courts in all types of intellectual property matters. He also handles trademark applications for clients, and represents clients in U.S. Patent & Trademark Office proceedings. Oliver is Board Certified by The Florida Bar for Intellectual Property Law, and has been rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell since 2010.

Oliver currently serves as a Circuit Vice President for the Eleventh Circuit, and as a member of the FBA’s Sections & Divisions Council. He served as Chair of the Circuit Vice Presidents (2023-24), during which time he served on the FBA’s national Board of Directors in an ex officio capacity. Oliver is also a Life Fellow of the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association. He is a Past President of the Federal Bar Association’s South Florida Chapter, and a Past Chair of the FBA’s Intellectual Property Law Section. He has served, and continues to serve, on various FBA National Committees.

Oliver earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University, and a law degree from St. Thomas University School of Law, where he was as a board member for the Moot Court Board, and President of the Student Bar Association. He is a Miami native, and is fluent in Spanish.

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