Suzanne Hengl

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property Management, Licensing, Branding, Advertising and Copyright, Customs IP Enforcement, E-Commerce IP Enforcement, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, ESG, Artificial Intelligence AI

Career

Suzi Hengl is a hands-on practitioner who partners with clients to secure, protect, promote, and defend their brands and creative works from creation through litigation. Her practice focuses on trademark, advertising and copyright litigation, prosecution, and counseling, and also encompasses diligence investigations, drafting and negotiation of IP and marketing agreements, advertising claims review, and counseling concerning promotions. Suzi represents clients in trademark, copyright and advertising litigation in federal courts and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the National Advertising Division.

Suzi has represented clients in a number of different industries including computer and consumer electronics, retail, apparel, telecommunications, energy, financial services, entertainment, food and beverage, leisure and hospitality, food packaging, facilities management and architectural products.

Suzi is committed to her clients and to the community in which she works and lives, and serves as the Chair of the New York office’s Pro Bono Committee.

Professional Memberships

New York State Bar

United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

International Trademark Association, Member, Oppositions and Cancellations Committee

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Trademark Committee, Former Member

Personal

J.D., Fordham University School of Law 2006

magna cum laude

Member, Fordham Law Review

Order of the Coif

Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award

B.A., English, University of Virginia 2000

with honors

Phi Beta Kappa

Golden Key National Honor Society