Sarah Lunt focuses her work on helping clients protect and enforce their trademark and copyright portfolios.
Sarah’s legal experience includes developing strategies for protecting, expanding, and commercializing clients’ intellectual property (IP), particularly in trademark prosecution and transactions. She has composed trademark clearance reports in the U.S. and internationally — including in Africa, the European Union, China, Japan, and Russia — and is adept at analyzing registration risks, forecasting office decisions, and formulating strategies to overcome risks.
As an advocate for her clients’ interests at trademark offices worldwide, Sarah has responded to office actions and argued against disclaimers and refusals at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the China National Intellectual Property Administration, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office, the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, Rospatent, Türkpatent, and South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. She has also successfully argued acquired distinctiveness for descriptive, misdescriptive, and geographic trademarks.
Sarah’s business background allows her to give commercially minded advice on licensing, selling, and acquiring IP. Further, it enables her to advise on the IP aspect of international mergers and acquisitions, as well as strategize on global brand launches.
When she’s not at work, Sarah enjoys doing the New York Times crossword puzzle and taking her dog, Kokomo, to the beach.
Not admitted to practice in California. Work conducted in California is directly supervised by a member of the California bar or is limited to U.S. federal courts or agencies listed in admissions or otherwise authorized by law.
