Committed to helping her clients succeed, Anne delivers thoughtful and practical legal advice. With more than 30 years of experience, including time as a small business owner, Anne helps businesses and individuals develop, protect and utilize intellectual property rights. She advises clients on the domestic and international protection of trademarks and copyrights, and has significant experience managing global IP portfolios. She also negotiates license agreements, handles trade secrets and e-commerce issues, as well as IP infringement, opposition, and cancellation matters.
Anne represents large multi-national companies to sole proprietors, including a wide range of business and not-for-profit organizations. Regardless of her client’s size or scope, Anne is passionate about serving her client’s immediate and long-term needs in a timely, personable, and strategic manner.
In addition to her IP practice, Anne assists not-for-profit organizations with incorporating and obtaining 501(c)(3) status, counsels entities and individuals on business and operational issues, and drafts and negotiates a wide variety of agreements.
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
- Member and Former Chair, Bar Association of Erie County Intellectual Property Law Committee
- Adjunct Professor, Hilbert College, 2009-2012
HONORS & AWARDS
- Recipient, 2022 Empire State Counsel® Outstanding Pro Bono Volunteer Award, New York State Bar Association
- Named as Best Lawyers® 2023 Nonprofit / Charities Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo, NY
- Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Legal Elite of Western New York, Buffalo Business First/Buffalo Law Journal, 2019
