Tanasychuk, Conrad M.

Carrie's primary area of practice is intellectual property, with a focus on global brand protection, trademark clearance and prosecution, domain name management, IP audits and due diligence, trademark, trade dress, copyright, and false advertising litigation. She advises clients on domestic and international brand protection strategies, including analysis of internet brand dilution issues, global domain name protection, and trademark policing efforts. She also works in partnership with corporate domain name vendors to proactively identify gaps in brand protection and to consolidate and manage domain name portfolios.

While at Jones Day, Carrie has successfully represented Eastman Chemical Company in three ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Proceedings to recover valuable internet domain names from cybersquatters. She has achieved similar victories on behalf of Citadel Investment Group, LLC and The Weir Group, LLC. Additionally, Carrie works closely with foreign counsel on a variety of country code top-level domain name infringement matters, such as .es, .cn, and .hk domains. Carrie also assists with global domain name clearance, registration, and the strategic enforcement of trademark holders' rights on the internet. In particular, she is providing an internet dilution analysis related to the infringement of a client's trade dress and trademarks in internet advertising.

As a part of her brand protection efforts, Carrie represents clients in Trademark Cancellation and Opposition Proceedings before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) and has assisted with obtaining numerous favorable judgments and settlements on behalf of Research In Motion (RIM), in connection with its BLACKBERRY® brand, and Toni&Guy Limited, in connection with its BED HEAD® brand. Carrie is currently assisting with the TTAB representation of The Procter & Gamble Company in its opposition against Glaxo Group Limited regarding P&G's PRO-HEALTH® brand. Likewise, she is currently representing Bravo! Development, Inc. in connection with various TTAB matters and federal district court trademark infringement cases related to the BRAVO!® and BRIO® restaurant trademarks.

Carrie's trademark prosecution work has covered a broad spectrum, ranging from hair care, skin care, cosmetics, wireless goods and services, care management and insurance claims processing, banking and financial services, restaurant services, food and alcoholic beverages, and sports to social networking Web sites. She also manages U.S. and global trademark portfolios and assists clients in international trademark clearance. Carrie plays a key role in coordinating and facilitating swift, cost-effective, and successful outcomes in trademark oppositions and domain name actions in the European Union, South America, and Asia.

Carrie also advises companies on the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and has recently provided substantial due diligence related to the acquisition of several consumer products businesses.

In addition, Carrie has experience in U.S. and European antitrust criminal investigations, multijurisdiction civil litigation, and class action lawsuits filed in response to such investigations. In particular, she participated in the defense of UPM-Kymmene Corporation, the world's third largest paper company, by assisting with UPM's internal fact investigation and subsequent antitrust class action litigation involving the sale of publication paper.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Carrie worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor and supervisor for the State of Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission. For nearly a decade, Carrie assisted thousands of individuals with physical, emotional, and cognitive disabilities to acquire the skills, confidence, and abilities needed to acquire meaningful employment. Believing that technology offered enormous opportunity for people with disabilities, Carrie bridged her interest in counseling with the law by authoring the article "The Applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act to Private Internet Web Sites." This article was published in the Cleveland State Law Review.