Rochester, New York, October 8, 2025– Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that Amy Hahn Paris has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property practice as an associate in the Rochester office.
Paris joins Harter Secrest & Emery from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) where she worked as a Trademark Examining Attorney. While at the USPTO, Paris reviewed trademark applications and responses to office actions for compliance with procedural requirements and substantive legal standards. She drafted and issued office actions outlining legal refusals and USPTO requirements and conducted thorough legal analyses to ensure examination decisions aligned with trademark law and USPTO guidelines. Paris also prepared and filed briefs with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Before joining the USPTO, Paris was an associate with Barclay Damon LLP, a judicial intern with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, and a legal officer for IDEA Venture Accelerator at Northeastern University. She earned a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and a B.S., magna cum laude, from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
Harter Secrest & Emery’s Intellectual Property practice group provides comprehensive intellectual property legal services to clients of all sizes throughout the United States and in foreign countries. The firm’s attorneys assist clients in building and maintaining intellectual property portfolios, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights, and have extensive experience negotiating and drafting licensing agreements, and serving as lead counsel in complex patent and other intellectual property litigation.
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Harter Secrest & Emery LLP is a full-service business law firm with attorneys throughout New York representing clients ranging from individuals and family-owned businesses to Fortune 100 companies and major regional institutions. With offices in Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Corning, and New York City, New York, the firm and its attorneys are consistently recognized by the industry’s leading law firm and attorney ranking programs, including Chambers and Partners, Best Law Firms® and The Best Lawyers in America®.