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Sheila Fox Morrison
Partner
I've been told that I do an excellent job of making the difficult world of trademarks easier to understand.
Main Bio
Food + Beverage Bio
Sheila Fox Morrison provides trademark and brand protection services with significant industry intelligence in the food and beverage, restaurant, healthcare, entertainment, and technology industries. She understands the opportunities and obstacles facing her clients and the markets in which they operate. She leads a team that provides responsive, cost-effective counsel to support the domestic and foreign trademark maintenance, clearance, registration, strategic brand protection and enforcement, and licensing needs of her clients.
Practice Highlights
Brand protection
Sheila delivers quick, cogent analysis of traditional trademark and title searches. She provides business-oriented and industry-tailored advice as well as identifies risks and risk mitigation strategies. She explains the strategy, process, and costs associated with domestic and international trademark protection. Sheila develops brand protection plans and guides her clients through the evaluation of their options. She implements effective approaches to achieve desired trademark-protection goals.
Enforcement
Sheila develops and executes brand enforcement plans starting with investigation, analysis, advice, demand letters or responses, and negotiating and drafting settlement agreements. She handles opposition, cancelation, and concurrent use proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and provides substantive subject-matter support for more complex litigation and trademark infringement and unfair competition matters before the U.S. District Court.
Trademark licensing & maintenance
Sheila negotiates and drafts trademark license agreements for licensors and licensees, always driving toward her clients' business goals while being mindful of the parties' relative bargaining power. She also leads a team of paralegals who track, report, and take action to maintain thousands of trademark registrations.
Admitted to Practice
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California, 1998
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Oregon, 2003
Education
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J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law, 1998, cum laude
- Editor-in-Chief, Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
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B.A., Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 1993
Memberships & Affiliations
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- Board of Directors, 2007-2013; Secretary, 2012-2013; Treasurer/Finance Committee Chair, 2010-2012 – Portland Children’s Museum
- Member, 2004-2008; Chair, 2004-2005 – AeA Technology & Intellectual Property Committee
Professional Recognition
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- Named one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" by Chambers USA in Intellectual Property (Oregon), 2017-2025; Received "Band 1" ranking, 2025
- Selected by Best Lawyers as Portland's "Lawyer of the Year" in Copyright Law, 2017; in Trademark Law, 2021
- Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" by Best Lawyers in Copyright Law, 2013-present; in Trademark Law, 2018-present
- Selected to "Oregon Rising Stars" in Intellectual Property, Thomson Reuters, 2008, 2010-2011
- Named to the "WTR 1000" (National and Oregon) by World Trademark Review, 2013-present; named a "WTR Global Leader," 2022, 2025
Background
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- Associate, Carr & Ferrell LLP, Palo Alto, Calif.
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