Heidi Tandy

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

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

Work Highlights

- Managed hundreds of trademark applications filed with the U.S. Trademark Office.

- Achieved confidential settlements in matters involving alleged trademark infringement.

- Defeated Summary Judgment motion at Trademark Trial and Appeal Board by demonstrating extensive issues of dispute between the parties.

- Convinced the Trademark Office to determine that a mark initially deemed “highly descriptive” had acquired distinctiveness, and was registerable on the Principal Register.

- Successfully negotiated a settlement agreement that obligated a junior user to cease use of a mark that was likely to be confused with the client’s mark.

- Created policies in line with GDPR regulations for corporations and nonprofits

- Successfully defended client in a matter involving a baseless accusation of noncompliance by a website with the ADA by filing a Motion to Dismiss which resulted in the Plaintiff withdrawing the complaint with prejudice.

- Created policies for website community management and social media content creation.

- Developed process for client to determine whether content creation made fair use of third party images and text.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

- Florida

- New York

- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

- U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

- U.S. Supreme Court

Languages Spoken

- English

Education

Awards