::Engelken, Sheri

Sheri Engelken Assistant Professor sengelken@lawschool.gonzaga.edu Office: (509) 323-5891 B.A. with High Honors, Administration of Justice, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1980 J.D. with Honors, University of Chicago, 1983 University of Chicago Law Review, Staff Member 1981-82, Articles Editor & Managing Board 1982-83 Judicial clerkship, Honorable John C. Godbold, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1983-84

Biographical Information

• Associate, Partner and Of Counsel at Kirkland & Ellis, 1984-2003.
• Litigation at the trial and appellate level, preliminary injunction hearings, TRO hearings, ex parte seizures, mediation and ADR proceedings concerning such subject matters as trademark and trade dress, false advertising, copyright, patents and design patents, Internet marketing, cybersquatting, non-competition covenants, confidentiality and trade secret disputes, and business torts.
• Counseling, clearance, prosecution and enforcement programs for trademarks, service marks, design patents, trade names, domain names and corporate names. ICANN and WIPO proceedings by trademark owners challenging cybersquatters.
• Pro bono representation of Illinois death row inmate Willie Enoch from 1989 until his death of natural causes in prison in April 2000.
• Pro bono representation of indigent artists through Lawyers For The Creative Arts.
• Numerous lectures and speeches before the International Trademark Association, American Intellectual Property Law Association, International Trademark Administrators, and Chicago Bar Association regarding various Intellectual Property and litigation topics.

Teaching Areas

• Intellectual Property
• Civil Procedure
• Constitutional Law
• Professional Responsibility
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Faculty Advisor – Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition

Publications

• Opening the Door to Efficient Infringement: eBay Inc. v MercExchange, L.L.C., will be published in 2008 in the Akron Intellectual Property Journal.
• Majoritarian Democracy in a Federalist System: The Late Chief Justice Rehnquist and the First Amendment, 30 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 695 (2007).
  

Presentations

• Presented on The Changing Landscape of IP Remedies after eBay, at the annual Intellectual Property forum at the University of Akron School of Law. November 9, 2007
• William O. Douglas Fall Lecture, Democracy in a Federalist System: The Late Chief Justice Rehnquist and the First Amendment, November 3, 2005.

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