Gayle Denman

Gayle Denman focuses her practice on trademark and trade dress clearance, prosecution, counseling, and enforcement. She has particular expertise in the strategic development and execution of international clearance projects and global filing programs. Gayle acts as a full-service IP advisor to her clients by also providing them with trusted counsel in areas including copyright, publicity rights, film clearance, and marketing and promotions. Like her clients' business interests, Gayle's expertise crosses industries, from retail and consumer goods to software and technology, media and entertainment, financial services, higher education, and philanthropy.

Gayle is very active in the International Trademark Association ("INTA"). She is currently a member of INTA's Enforcement Committee and co-chair of the Oppositions and Cancellations Subcommittee, and she previously co-chaired INTA's Global Bad Faith Registration Working Group. Gayle's experience leading the Bad Faith Registration Working Group makes her particularly well positioned to guide U.S.-based clients seeking to protect and defend their brands internationally. Gayle also has contributed numerous articles to INTA's Bulletins publication and previously served on INTA's Trademark Office Practices and Bulletins committees, and she has been recognized by INTA as both a "High-Performing Committee Member" and a "Rising Star".

Gayle has been listed in the "WTR 1000" (New York) by World Trademark Review and identified by The Legal 500 for Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Non-Contentious. She has also been named a "Rising Star" by Managing Intellectual Property, "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers, and a "New York Rising Star" by Super Lawyers.