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Baila H. CeledoniaPartnerbhc@cll.com212.790.9203 |
Baila's practice includes administration of domestic and international trademark registration programs, intellectual property issues in acquisitions and secured transactions, and litigation and counseling involving copyrights, trademarks, domain names, e-commerce, licensing, rights of publicity and rights in computer software and databases.
Brooklyn Law School, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law (1987--88)
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, Law Clerk (1975--77)
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) - 'Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy' (October 1, 2009)
Client Alert: U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Rejects Medinol 'Should Have Known' Standard of Fraud, Rasising the Bar in Fraud Cases (September, 2009)
Client Alert - Standard of Fraud in the U.S. Trademark Office - Relaxed? (July 2009)
Century 21, the New Kid in Town: The Third Circuit Crafts a New Nominative Fair Use Test (The Trademark Reporter July-August 2007)
Trademark Parody, Statutory and Nominative Fair Use Under the Lanham Act (March 2007)
Practising Law Institute -- Chair, Advanced Seminar on Trademark Law (1994--02)
International Trademark Association -- 'Intellectual Property in Secured Transactions' (2002, 1999), 'Recent Developments in the Right of Publicity in the United States and Canada' (1997)
American Intellectual Property Law Association -- Panelist, Drafting Opinion Letters (1999)
Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys -- Recent Developments in the Use of IP as Collateral (1997)
'Unsettled Law Interferences with Use of IP as Collateral' (Intellectual Property Worldwide, Sep/Oct 1996)
Named in New York 'Super Lawyers' 2006 - 2010
Named in The 2006, 2007 and 2008 Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners (published by Managing Intellectual Property)
Named in The Best Lawyers in America in Intellectual Property Law (American Lawyer Media, Inc. 2004-2008), reprinted in New York magazine (December 2007, July 2007, July 2006, August 2005)
Named in The International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers (Law Business Research Ltd. 2001-2007)
Named in Guide to the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners (Euromoney Legal Media Group 2000-2004)
American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation -- Board of Trustees (2001--08)
American Intellectual Property Law Association -- Secretary and Board of Directors (1997--2000), Chairperson, Committee onCopyright Law (1995--97), AIPLA Fellows (2002-- ), Chairperson, AIPLA Fellows (2007-09)
International Trademark Association -- Member, Board of Directors (1990--92), Chairperson, Committee on Publications (1989--91)
Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (2004-- ), Forums Committee (1999--2001), Member, Committee on Federal Legislation, Subcommittee on Right of Publicity (1994--98)
American Bar Fellow (1999-- )
Practising Law Institute -- Member of Advisory Committee (1997-- )
Brooklyn Law School (JD 1975, summa cum laude
Brooklyn Law Review -- Member 1973--75, Managing Editor 1974--75)
Carnegie-Mellon University (BA 1965)
New York
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals -- Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh Circuits
United States District Courts -- Southern, Eastern Districts of New York