Jamie Shelden is an intellectual property, litigation and licensing specialist. She has an extensive background counseling clients on a broad range of IP issues, including providing opinions as to the availability and registerability of trademarks and copyrights, coordinating U.S. and international filings and litigation, policing and enforcing trademark rights worldwide, and advising clients on a wide variety of internet, advertising and domain name issues.  She has written numerous articles on recent developments in trademark, internet and domain name law. While a lawyer at Cooley Godward, she represented clients in retail (online and bricks & mortar), computer hardware/software, biotechnology, and telecommunications. Jamie oversaw and coordinated worldwide trademark filings for nVidia, Intel, SPARC International/Sun Microsystems and Consolidated Freightways.

She also managed trademark enforcement for nationwide retailers Hot Topic, Charlotte Russe and Lucy.com, and assisted clients such as MP3.com in developing and implementing in-house educational seminars emphasizing the proper use of trademarks and diligent enforcement of rights. Jamie also worked at the German law firm Norton Rose in Cologne, German, and directly with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Office of Harmonization of the Internal Market (European Trademark Office).  Jamie received her Doctor of Laws from the University of the Pacific (UOP), McGeorge School of Law, and her Bachelors in Music Management from the UOP Conservatory of Music. In 2003 she also received her Diploma in International Legal Studies through the University of Salzburg and UOP, focusing on European Union law and Community and International Trademark registration and enforcement.  Jamie has been hang gliding for 14 years and has participated in many competitions at the national and world level. With the U.S. Women's Team, she earned a silver medal in the Women's World Championships held in Chelan, Washington. In addition, Jamie recently set two women's world records for hang gliding distance. Those records are now in the process of being ratified by the FAI (the international organization governing aviation records). Jamie has been the Women's National Rigid Wing Champion for the last several years. Last spring she received her instructor and tandem pilot ratings.

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