Duane Morris LLP

Christiane Schuman Campbell is vice chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, She counsels clients on development, management, and protection of their most valuable assets: Their brands. Christi has worked hand-in-hand with some of the world’s most recognizable brands to develop strategies for brand development, clearance, protection, monetization, expansion, and enforcement. She serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Fashion/Retail/Consumer Branded Products industry group and is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board as well as the firm's Executive Committee. Christi partners with clients that range in size from start-ups to leading global franchises, in a wide array of industries, including fashion, jewelry, luxury, and consumer goods; alcohol; casinos and hospitality; franchise restaurants; medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences, including in the cannabis space; universities; and defense products. She is a trusted advisor and partner to larger clients’ in-house legal teams and regularly called upon to step into an in-house counsel role for smaller and start-up clients.

Christi has extensive experience with global protection and enforcement of brands, and has guided clients through intellectual property transactional and litigation matters throughout the U.S., before U.S. Federal Courts and before the TTAB in Inter Partes and Ex Parte proceedings, and before WIPO and the NAF in domain disputes under the UDRP. Outside the U.S., Christi has successfully enforced clients’ intellectual property rights in some of the most legally complex jurisdictions in the world, including in China, throughout the Middle East and Africa, and Cuba.

In the luxury and consumer goods space, Christi has extensive experience negotiating co-branding and license agreements, particularly with respect to brands using celebrity talent for branding and endorsements.

On the deal side, Christi has negotiated hotel management agreements and advised major hotel and casino operations with respect to branding and co-branding in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions including Singapore and Macao. She has guided clients through multi-billion-dollar IPO’s, and multi-million-dollar mergers and acquisitions where clients’ intellectual property portfolios were significant assets.

Christi also regularly acts as a consultant and advisor to branding and marketing companies that are supporting their own clients’ brand initiatives, by performing clearance and availability searches and offering advice that blends legal, business, and marketing advice.

Duane Morris LLP - Partner, 2015-present - Associate, 2005-2014 - Law Clerk, 2004 Burns & Levinson LLP - Summer Clerk, 2004

International Trademark Association American Intellectual Property Law Association Pennsylvania Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section -- Chair, Trademark Committee, 2009-present Association of Trial Lawyers of America Duane Morris Women's Impact Network for Success

Franklin Pierce Law Center, J.D., M.I.P., 2005