Lisa Cobern Pavento

Principal

678-869-7752

Biography

For over a decade, Lisa Pavento has been providing intellectual property counseling in the areas of trademarks, copyrights, licensing/assignment agreements, patents, pre-litigation strategy, and litigation. Lisa’s clients include start-up companies, both mid-size and multi-national corporations, national trade organizations, and universities. Lisa’s primary focus is to serve as a trusted partner to her clients. She does this by taking the time to learn about her clients’ short term and long term goals, and tailoring her services and counseling to meet those goals.

Trademarks
Lisa counsels her clients regarding cost-effective trademark strategies and the importance of mark clearance and selection prior to the use of a mark and/or the filing of a trademark application. Lisa provides straight-forward and practical advice regarding the costs, benefits, and risks associated with adopting a new mark. Once a mark is chosen, Lisa assists her clients with prosecuting trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and domestic and international portfolio and conflict management. Lisa handles cancellation and opposition proceedings in both domestic and international tribunals and regularly counsels clients in association with trademark litigation matters. Lisa routinely drafts and negotiates intellectual property licensing agreements that encompass one or more of trademark, copyright and patent properties.

Copyrights
Lisa advises clients regarding copyright registration, joint development, licensing and litigation. Lisa currently represents Plaintiffs in a copyright dispute with Public.Resource.Org (Northern District of Georgia). Lisa also currently represents Defendants in a copyright case involving issues of electronic reserves and fair use in the non-profit educational context (Northern District of Georgia).

Patents
After graduating magna cum laude from a pre-medical program, Lisa spent three years working on a Ph.D. in Immunology with a specific focus on mechanisms of signal transduction by glycosyl-phosphatidyl-inositol anchored receptors. Lisa uses this broad-based knowledge to maintain a biotechnology practice that includes subject matter such as therapeutics, diagnostics, genomics, biopharmaceuticals, and drug delivery. Lisa has significant experience with domestic and international patent prosecution, patent portfolio management, licensing, assignment and merger deals, and preparation of patent-related opinions.

Education

University of Georgia, B.S., Microbiology/Pre-Medical, magna cum laude

Emory University, M.S., Immunology and Molecular Pathogenesis

University of Georgia, J.D., cum laude

Admissions

  • Georgia
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

  • Experience

    • Kilpatrick Townsend, LLP
    • Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, LLP
    • Jones & Askew, LLP

  • Practice Areas

  • Technologies

  • Publications & Presentations

    • Steve Schaetzel and Lisa Pavento, “Federal Circuit Expands ‘Something More’ Standard,” World Trademark Review, January 27, 2015.

    • John K. McDonald Ph.D., Jamie L. Graham, Lisa C. Pavento, “International Patent Protection for HIV-Related Therapies: Patent Attorneys’ Perspective,” Emory International Law Review, 17(2), June 2003.

    • Cobern, L. and Selvaraj, P. An enzymatic method to determine receptor-mediated edocytosis. J. Biol. Biophys. Methods, 30(4):249-55 (1995)

    • Nagarajan, S., Chelsa, S., Cobern, L., Anderson, P., Zhu, C. and Selvaraj, P. Ligand binding and phagocytosis by CD16 (FC gamma receptor III). J. Biol. Chem. 270(43):25762-70 (1995)

  • Membership & Affiliations

    • International Trademark Association, Copyright Committee Member (2016-2017)
    • Association of University Technology Managers, Eastern Region Planning
    • Georgia Association for Women Lawyers, Member
    • State Bar of Georgia, Intellectual Property Section, Member

  • Honors & Awards

    • Best Lawyers in America, Intellectual Property Litigation, Copyright Law and Trademark Law
    • B. Hugh Burgess Law Scholarship, Recipient
    • University of Georgia Intellectual Property Association, Past President
    • The Intellectual Property Journal, Past Executive Articles Editor
    • Alpha Epsilon Delta, Premedical Honor Society, Member
    • Phi Beta Kappa, Member