Jennifer Susan Sickler

Jennifer S. Sickler is an intellectual property (IP) attorney in Holland & Knight's Houston office. Ms. Sickler focuses her practice on a broad range of IP matters, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing matters.

Ms. Sickler has experience in civil ligation of IP matters in federal and state courts, as well as arbitration and mediation experience. She has worked on IP matters in more than 80 countries, and her clients include companies and organizations in the energy, biotechnology, chemical, education, healthcare, oil and gas, fracking, liquefied natural gas (LNG), entertainment and retail sectors.

In addition, Ms. Sickler has experience with the preparation and prosecution of domestic and foreign trademark, patent and copyright applications. She assists clients with the selection, clearance and registration of trademarks in the United States and many industrial countries in the world. She represents clients in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB); in Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) domain name proceedings; and in patent, copyright and trademark infringement, false-advertising and unfair competition cases in federal court. Ms. Sickler also liaises with counsel in other countries to procure foreign registrations and supervises litigation and resolution of foreign trademark disputes, conducts corporate due-diligence investigations, prepares and negotiates trademark licenses, and advises clients on trademark and trade-dress matters in advertising and social media.

Ms. Sickler's patent experience includes managing national and international patent portfolios as well as corporate due-diligence investigations, in addition to negotiating patent licenses. She also assists clients with copyright registrations for software and other works of authorship. In addition, Ms. Sickler assists companies with trade secret protection plans, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, and website privacy policies.

While in law school, Ms. Sickler served as co-editor of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal. After law school, Ms. Sickler was a law clerk for the Honorable Sim Lake of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.