Lawrence G. Townsend
ltownsend@owe.com
Lawrence G. Townsend specializes in intellectual property litigation and counseling including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, and unfair competition law. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1979.
Mr. Townsend is a member of the State Bar of California Intellectual Property Section, the Marin County Bar Association, the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association and the Authors' Guild. Like the Owens, he continues a time-honored commitment to the law; Mr. Townsend is a fourth generation intellectual property specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mr. Townsend's published works include Shrink-Wrap Solution, Authors Guild Bulletin, Spring, 2002; Shrink Wrap-Up: One License Doesn't Fit All, Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 22, 1996; Limited Licenses: The Unfortunate Fragility of Shrinkwrap, Intellectual Property, The Magazine of Law and Policy for High Technology, Spring, 1996; Ticket to E-Ride: Name for Airline's Electronic Service is Generic, San Francisco Daily Journal, March 30, 2000; and Secrets of the Wholly Grill, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2002, a satire of the software industry. He is currently working on his second book.
Linda Joy Kattwinkel
ljk@owe.com
Linda Joy Kattwinkel is a visual artist as well as an attorney. She practices primarily copyright, trademark, and arts law. Ms. Kattwinkel received her arts training at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she graduated cum laude in 1975 with a B.F.A. in communication arts. Thereafter she worked for thirteen years as a graphic artist in editorial, corporate and advertising design and typography. She has designed many corporate and product logos, and has produced illustrations for educational books and other publications. Today she paints in plein air and at her studio in San Francisco, where she sometimes participates in Open Studios. Her artwork has been shown in more than twenty-five museum and gallery exhibitions.
Ms. Kattwinkel received her law degree cum laude from Hastings College of the Law in 1991. At Hastings, she co-founded, edited, and designed the logo for the Hastings Women's Law Journal. Ms. Kattwinkel published an article and artwork in the journal, On Motherhood and Working, 3 Hastings Women's LJ1 (1992). During law school Ms. Kattwinkel externed with the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California. Ms. Kattwinkel was admitted to the California Bar in 1992. Before joining Owen, Wickersham & Erickson, Ms. Kattwinkel served as a long-term judicial clerk to the Honorable Claudia Wilken, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California.
Ms. Kattwinkel received her alternate dispute resolution training from California Lawyers for the Arts and The Center for Mediation and Law. She has been mediating and arbitrating intellectual property and arts related disputes since 1987.
Ms. Kattwinkel is the author of Legalities, a regular online column on legal issues for artists, for the Northern California chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild.