W. Mack Webner Senior Counsel

Mr. Webner's practice encompasses all phases of trademark, unfair competition, trade secret and copyright law. He is an active trial lawyer of intellectual property rights and represents clients in adopting, clearing, registering, licensing and defending their intellectual property rights . Mr. Webner has represents clients in a wide variety of fields from the clothing industry, to the hotel - casino industry, to entertainers, to shoe manufacturers, to retailers, to restaurants to food producers.  Mr. Webner has been named, through peer review, as one of the top 25 trademark lawyers in the world in each issue of the Euromoney Legal Media Group's  "Best of the Best"  Expert Guide - a guide to top legal practitioners across eleven areas of law and in each issue of the Euromoney Legal Media Group's  Guide To The World's Leading Experts In Trademark Law.  He appears in Who's Who Legal for trademark practitioners and was named as one of the best intellectual property lawyers in Washington D.C. in   Washingtonian Magazine's 2007 and 2009 peer review list of "Top" lawyers.

Mr. Webner has been an adjunct professor of law at Catholic University's Columbus School of law, Georgetown University Law Center and Howard University School of  Law. He is a frequent speaker at Bar forums, and CLE and INTA seminars.

District of Columbia, Ohio*, Illinois*, New Jersey, Virginia*
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals - Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eleventh and Federal Circuits
U.S. District Courts - New Jersey, Eastern District of Virginia, Eastern District of Wisconsin
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
*inactive

New York University (LL.M. Trade Regulations, 1974)
University of Akron (J.D.  1968; B.S. Business Administration 1964)

2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 Legal Media Group Best of the Best
Euromoney Legal Media Group's "Guide To The World's Leading Experts In Trademark Law" 
Listed in Who’s Who Legal for Trademark Lawyers published by Law Business Research Limited
Washingtonian Magazine 2007 and 2009 "Best" as one of the "Top" intellectual property lawyers in Washington D.C.

Corporate Trademark Counsel for The Goodyear Tire Company, International Harvester Company and GAF Corporation
Catholic University School of Law, Adjunct Professor - Trademarks and Unfair Competition (1998-2000)
Georgetown University, Adjunct Professor - Trademark Law (2000 - 2001)
Howard University School of Law, Adjunct Professor - Trademark and Unfair Competition 2006

Aztar v. NY Entertainment, 15 F.Supp.2d. 252 (E.D.NY 1998)

E.Z. Loader Boat Trailers, Inc. v. Cox Trailers, Inc

Estate of Elvis Presley v. Russen, 513 F.Supp. 1339 (D.NJ 1981)

Knorr-Nahrmiltel A.G. v. Reese Finer Foods, Inc., 695 F.Supp. 787 (D.NJ 1988)

Skippy, Inc. v. CPC International, Inc., 674 F.2d. 209 (4th Cir. 1981)

Taj Mahal Enterprises v. Trump, 742 F.Supp.2d. 892 (D.NJ 1990)

Westco Group, Inc. v. K.B. & Associates, Inc., F.Supp.2d 1082 (N.D. Ohio, 2001)

Associations
CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution - Neutral, CPR/INTA Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
American Intellectual Property Law Association - Trademark Committee
International Trademark Association - Past Chair, Forums Committee; former Member, Management Committee; former Member, Board of Directors
University of Akron Intellectual Property Advisory Council

Best Practice in Devising a Litigation Strategy
A Fair Description
The Ins and Outs of US Trademark Litigation
The Trademark Lawyer as Brand Manager
"The Trademark Lawyer as Brand Manager", Brands in the Boardroom 2005, September 2005
"The Ins and Outs of U.S. Trade Mark Litigation", Managing Intellectual Property Brand Management Focus 2005, March 2005
"A Fair Description?", LegalTimes, October 11, 2004
"Transformation:  The Bright Line Between Commercial Publicity Rights and the First Amendment", University of Akron Law Review, April 5, 2004