Steven A. Abreu

Steven Abreu is an associate at Sunstein. Steve focuses on trademark and copyright prosecution and litigation in the United States and abroad. Steve also handles intellectual property licensing and policing and defending trademarks including non-traditional trademarks. Steve enjoys working with clients to ensure that the totality of their intellectual property is protected and secure, and to educate them on new opportunities to develop and protect their trademark portfolio.

Experience

• Steve has successfully represented a number of clients before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and federal courts.
• Steve has filed and prosecuted hundreds of trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and assisted clients with their applications throughout the world.
• Previously, Steve was a trademark associate at a large Midwestern law firm where he represented several world famous consumer product companies and helped protect their invaluable brand names.

Bar and Court Admissions

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• State of Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Recent Publications/Presentations

• “How To Keep Your Brand Name Out of the Adult Industry’s Neighborhood,”
  Intellectual Property Update, May 2011.
• “Generic.com: Should “Generic” Domain Names Be Registerable as Trademarks?”The IPC Legal Browser, Summer 2010.
• “Going Once, Going Twice: Tiffany makes Another Bid to Restrict Auctions of Counterfeit Jewelry on eBay,” Intellectual Property Update, May 2010.
• “Has STARBUCKS been diluted? The Ongoing Effort to Protect Famous Marks,”Intellectual Property Update, January 2010.
• “The UPC Code: A New Frontier for Trademark Infringement?” Intellectual Property Update, July 2009.
• “Don’t Just Give it Away: Unless a Product is Sold, European Law Recognizes No Genuine Trademark Use,” Intellectual Property Update, February 2009.

Honors

• Steve was named to the Rising Stars list in the practice area of intellectual property in 2010-2011 in Massachusetts, a list limited to 2.5% of the outstanding emerging lawyers in the state who are age 40 and under, or have been practicing 10 years or less. The attorneys featured in Rising Stars were selected by their peers in an extensive nomination and polling process conducted by the research team at Super Lawyers, a service of Thomson Reuters and seen in a special advertising section in Boston magazine.