Lynda Zadra-Symes > Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP > Irvine, United States > Lawyer Profile

Lynda Zadra-Symes

(949) 760-0404 lynda.zadrasymes@knobbe.com

Position

Partner

Career

Lynda is a litigation partner with the firm, where she has practiced for over 31 years.  Lynda is co-chair of the firm’s trademark and copyright litigation practice groups. She represents clients through all stages of U.S. litigation, from pre-suits through trial and appeal, in federal courts throughout the country, the ITC and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.  Her practice involves all types of intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising, unfair competition, and rights of publicity. She also advises on issues relating to customs and anti-counterfeiting, international trademarks and copyrights, advertising, social media, competition and passing off. Lynda works with clients in numerous industries, including food & beverage, fashion and beauty, medical device and healthcare, software and hardware, financial and professional services, sports and entertainment.

Lynda has received multiple awards and has been honored in both national and international forums for her legal accomplishments. For her work in IP litigation, she has been selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America®  for five consecutive years (2017 – 2022), as well as being included in eight separate editions of Super Lawyers magazine. In 2019, Lynda was named as one of the world’s leading patent lawyers in the “Who’s Who Legal: Patents” list by Law Business Research. Recognized by The Legal 500 “United States” for Trademarks: Litigation (2020 – 2021): Litigation, by Legal Media Group’s (LMG) “Best of the Best USA” guide as one of the top 30 trademark practitioners in the U.S., and by the World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000 as a “Leading Trademark Lawyer,” describing her as a skilled litigator through all phases of litigation with the ability to take on any IP case – a “backbone of the litigation practice.” Lynda is a Domain Name Dispute Panelist for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).