Maureen C. Kassner
(Retired)

Maureen C. Kassner (Retired), Principal

Maureen C. Kassner (Retired)

Principal

Mauri was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and first lived in Philadelphia as an undergraduate studying marketing and advertising at The University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from The Georgetown University Law Center and a short period of residence in New York where she worked with a small intellectual property boutique law firm, she relocated to Philadelphia where she has remained ever since.

Her Philadelphia experience started with another intellectual property boutique firm, Panitch Schwarze Jacobs & Nadel, where she worked before becoming the first in-house intellectual property specialist in the law department of Tyco Toys, Inc., which subsequently merged into Mattel, Inc. Mauri was responsible for advising all East Coast operations with respect to trademark, copyright, and unfair competition matters. She was also responsible for searching, prosecuting, maintaining, and enforcing Mattel’s trademark, trade dress, and domain name portfolios worldwide. In this capacity she developed a network of trusted international counsel with whom she partnered in protecting the Company’s assets and redressing infringements overseas. Her nearly 10 years of experience working directly with the business operations of a consumer products manufacturer with a streamlined law department, combined with her musical background, has informed the way she approaches the practice of law, giving her a keen sense of practical considerations affecting business operations and a sensitivity to cost containment. As a result, among her job responsibilities were many areas that fall outside of traditional intellectual property practice, including music licensing, inventor licensing, oversight of advertising and packaging review and compliance, fact-finding in infringement actions, along with both in- and out-licensing of branding, character, entertainment property and product design. She represented the Company prosecuting and defending claims for false or deceptive advertising brought before the National Advertising Review Board (NARB) of the Better Business Bureau and its Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), which work she has continued throughout her career.

Effective September 2022, Mauri retired from the practice of law. In addition to other pursuits, she continues to seek an application for her remarkable ability to write backwards in cursive.

Any questions about Mauri’s work with the firm can be directed to info@kassgen.com.

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