Meredith M. Wilkes
Partner
Cleveland
Tel: +1.216.586.7231
Fax: +1.216.579.0212
Email:
mwilkes@jonesday.com
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Meredith is a trial lawyer whose practice encompasses protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights with a particular emphasis in the areas of trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation. Meredith appears in courts throughout the United States and routinely represents trademark owners and alleged infringers from the preliminary injunction stage through trial. Novel, trade dress, counterfeiting, and internet-related infringement activity are among the types of cases Meredith typically tries. With considerable experience with domain name and internet-related infringement activity, including a record-setting cyberpiracy judgment, Meredith has been involved in obtaining preliminary and permanent injunctive relief on behalf of: IBM, Re/Max International, The Riverside Company, Media Arts Group, The Scott Fetzer Company, The Hygenic Corporation, and the Sherwin-Williams Company. Additionally, Meredith assists clients with issues related to post-employment covenants, including covenants not to compete.
In addition to litigating trademark infringement cases, Meredith counsels clients on brand selection and brand clearance strategies nationally and internationally, from searching to filing to trademark opposition proceedings at the trial and appellate levels. Meredith's trademark prosecution practice encompasses a broad spectrum of goods and services and includes product design trade dress and color trade dress. Meredith assists clients in the consumer goods arena with health and wellness-related products and services, as well as in the education and entertainment industries. Meredith's clients range from sporting goods retailers to rock and roll museum owners to tobacco companies to global mining and minerals processing companies.
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Nebraska, Ohio, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and U.S. District Courts for the Northern & Southern Districts of Ohio, the Northern District of New York, and the Northern District of Illinois
Education
Creighton University (J.D. magna cum laude 1996; Assistant Editor, Law Review); Colorado State University (B.A. in Journalism 1993)