In an interview with the INTA Bulletin, 2022 Annual Meeting Live+ Track Leader Caroline Chicoine heading the Complementary Rights, Regulatory Issues, and Brand Restrictions track discusses the interplay of complimentary IP rights in a progressively digital world and the growing pervasiveness of brand restrictions.
Caroline Chicoine, Husch Blackwell, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Caroline Chicoine, Of Counsel at Husch Blackwell in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, remembers the first time she was involved in an INTA committee: “It started back in the late 90s with the Internet Committee. That’s where INTA became a second family.”
The Internet Committee had only been around for a few years at the time and it seemed to be a good fit for Ms. Chicoine, whose background was in electrical engineering. She was involved in INTA’s efforts to represent brand owners within the nascent Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), including assisting with the formation of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy in 1999.
Published: January 13, 2021
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