Jessica Rissman Cohen

Jessica is an intellectual property associate whose practice focuses on protecting and policing clients’ trademark, trade dress and copyright rights. Jessica counsels clients in all aspects of their branding, advertising and enforcement needs. She specializes in trademark counseling for clients in a wide variety of industries, including consumer home goods, food products, tobacco products, hospitality/restaurant services, online services. She works with domestic and international companies to register, maintain, protect and license trademarks, service marks, domain names and trade names, and assists clients with the development and implementation of brand management and enforcement programs. Jessica regularly reviews, analyzes and provides risk analysis for clients’ social media campaigns, websites and advertisements. She manages intellectual property policing and enforcement matters for numerous clients at all stages of such disputes, and her litigation experience includes cases in the areas of trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, copyright and patent law, in both federal court and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings. She also works with clients to structure licensing agreements to commercialize their intellectual property.

Jessica has extensive experience with internet-related issues, such as social media account disputes, Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims and Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act claims. She regularly assists companies with domain name disputes, including ICANN disputes and Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution (UDRP) actions.

Jessica has been listed as a Rising Star in the 2016-2018 editions of Illinois Super Lawyers. She has also been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in “Intellectual Property" since 2022.