Heidi Tandy

Practice Areas

Heidi Tandy is a partner in Berger Singerman’s Miami office where she sits on both the Business/Financial Team and the Dispute Resolution Team. Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Intellectual Property Law and a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, Heidi has almost thirty years of experience in intellectual property with a focus on copyrights and trademarks, tech, online privacy, licensing and media law, handling matters involving social media, privacy, and internet and tech law for large and small corporate clients and individuals. Her clients range from retail stores to groundbreaking online content creators and off-Broadway plays, as well as hotels and condominiums, restaurants, jewelry designers, fan events, educators, podcasters, website and app developers, novelists, and an Emmy-award winning makeup artist. She’s worked with content creators, technology builders, individual business owners, and large corporations to successfully protect websites, apps, copyrights and trademarks. Since the 1990s, Heidi’s work has included the creation of terms of service and privacy policies and best practices, as well as creating website accessibility policies, internet policies, employee manuals and managerial procedures for companies such as The Bump, PsychoBunny, the Organization for Transformative Works and Delivery Dudes. Heidi Tandy began her career at The New York Times, and has since filed hundreds of trademark applications, litigated before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the World Intellectual Property Organization and in federal and Florida courts, created and negotiated license agreements and assignments, and protected the rights of clients around the world.

Heid is an alum of the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her BA in history at the College and communications at the Annenberg School of Communications, and American University’s Washington College of Law, where she focused on tech and IP law; she is currently on the board of the University of Pennsylvania Press and a member of the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women, and sits on WCL’s advisory council for the school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. She is also a member of WIN (Women in IP Network) and BMI's Bayshore chapter, and has been a panelist on legal issues at San Diego Comic Con, Florida Supercon, South By Southwest, DragonCon, the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, Wharton’s Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance’s Cypher Accelerator, and annual Forums for Women Leaders in IP Law, as well as numerous podcasts. She has taught social media law at Whittier Law School and Nova Southeastern University.

Professional Memberships

- Member, INTA's unREAL Campaign Committee

- Member, Penn Press External Board of Advisors

Publications

- Tandy, H. (2018, May 10). Make sure your business is compliant with new EU data protection regulations. Inside Business. http://www.pilotonline.com/inside-business/news/columns/article_829fc186-5524-11e8-939b-cb01b61d92b7.html

- Tandy, H. (2020a, April 17). Emergency Distance Learning and Fair Use. IPWatchdog.com. https://ipwatchdog.com/2020/04/02/emergency-distance-learning-fair-use/id=120328/

- Tandy, H. (2020b, April 27). Home Learning. Intellectual Property Magazine. https://www.intellectualpropertymagazine.com/Covid19/home-learning--1.htm?origin=internalSearch