Katie Sullivan focuses her practice on trademark and copyright litigation.
Professional & Community Activities
New York Chapter of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Former Intern (2007-2009)
Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, Former Senior Editor (2008-2009)
Experience
Worked on teams handling the following matters:
Trademark litigation for Pearson Education Inc., Represented Pearson Education Inc., the world's largest educational publisher, in obtaining an injunction to prevent the use of mymathlabhelp.com, as a site offering to use a student's user name and password to complete homework assignments on Pearson Education Inc.'s popular mymathlab.com website. In addition to claims under the Lanham Act, the complaint was also based on violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act as well as state claims. The defendants agreed to stop providing this service and to transfer the domain name to our client.
Trademark litigation for Lexington Home Brands, The firm represented Lexington Home Brands, a global manufacturer and marketer of distinctive home furnishings, in connection with the enforcement of the company's trademarks. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (Board) issued a decision in favor of our client cancelling the challenged registration of the Lexington Company, a Swedish home textile manufacturer. The Board found the marks at issue and the composite word and design mark confusingly similar when used in connection with "furniture" and the "top of bed" category. The Board held that furniture and "top of bed" products are highly related based on evidence and testimony that furniture companies sell both furniture and household linens under the same mark. The Board's order, while not precedential, is important to all of our furniture clients as home textile companies continue to adopt marks identical or closely similar to our clients' furniture brands.
Domain name disputes for Overhead Door Company of Atlanta, Successfully represented Overhead Door Company of Atlanta (OHDATL), a distributor of garage door products, against two competitors who were using search engine optimization and domain names confusingly similar to OHDATL's to create problematic sponsored Google search results. We reached settlements with both competitors and also secured the transfer of the competitors domain names to our client.
*Experience gained by attorney prior to joining Kilpatrick Townsend
Publications
01 November 2010, Monetary Recovery in Trademark Litigation
Source: IP Litigator, Articles
01 March 2010, Moral Rights and Wrongs: Conflicts in the Digital World
Source: Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, Articles
News
11 May 2010, Kilpatrick Stockton's Katharine Sullivan Featured in Newsletter for the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University School of Law, In the News