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Samantha Skains-Menchaca at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is a trademark and copyright specialist. Skains-Menchaca handles all aspects of portfolio management, ensuring protection for clients across a range of industries such as food and beverage, fashion, software, and healthcare.
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Intellectual Property
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Sam Skains-Menchaca manages trademark and copyright portfolios of all sizes and aspects, from clearance searching and filing to policing and enforcing, both domestically and abroad. She focuses on achieving the highest quality protection and value at enhanced efficiency and reduced cost. Sam uses her Spanish and international travel to connect and grow an extensive network of foreign counsel for global trademark and copyright protection and enforcement.
Sam’s experience includes Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings and negotiations. Her practice also includes advising on and assisting with investigating, purchasing and licensing intellectual property, as well as business formation and due diligence. Sam leverages her biology background and prior patent prosecution experience to advise on all intellectual property aspects and provisions of agreements, including assignment, purchase and license agreements.
Sam represents clients in a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, apparel and fashion, banking, biotechnology, electronics, energy, entertainment and film, healthcare and software.
Memberships
Licensing Executives Society USA & Canada (LES)
Young Members Congress, Co-Chair, 2023-2024
Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)
Young Members Congress
Women in Licensing Alliance
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Trademark Administrators & Practitioners (TMAP) Project Team, 2024
The Women’s LeadershIP Project Team, 2023-2025
Young Practitioners Committee, 2022-2023
Wells Fargo Outside Counsel (OC) Leadership Program, 2023
Community Building Initiative’s Leaders Under 40, Class 9, 2019-2020
North Carolina Bar Association
Charlotte Women Attorneys
Education
Tulane University School of Law, J.D., 2015, Highest grade in International Business Transactions
Vanderbilt University, B.S./B.A., Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, and Spanish, 2011, cum laude; Teaching Assistant to Introduction to Biological Laboratories
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