Amie Peele Carter is a licensed innovation and games legal advisor. Her enthusiasm is to enable customers to make, secure and use esteem. She causes her customers prevail by:

Distinguishing and securing their immaterial resources, including their brands, trademarks, programming, web content, exchange insider facts, inventive works and new advances

Utilizing the estimation of these advantages through brand enactment, permitting bargains, sponsorships, advancements, and the fitting utilization of online networking and other showcasing channels

Checking the commercial center for potential encroachment of customer possessed IP

Upholding customer's rights in these advantages through pre-suit question determination, TTAB procedures, and case in state and government courts.

Amie's customer base incorporates Fortune 100 and 500 organizations, fair sized and little organizations, business visionaries, sports associations and competitors, advertising offices, TV characters, specialists, creators, performers, and distributers.

Amie handles the accompanying sorts of issues for her customers:

Exempt Organizations

Intellectual Property

International

Life Sciences

Privacy & Data Protection

Sports & Entertainment

Representative Experience

• Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank et al., ----U.S.--- (2014) (cert granted) (amicus curiae brief filed on behalf of the American Intellectual Property Organization) (trademark tacking)
• Represents ESPN sports media television personality Vince Welch
• Represents Reckitt Benckiser in TTAB proceedings to protect its valued Mucinex® brand
• Represents American College of Sports Medicine
• Represents sports marketing agency, U/S Sports Advisors
• Represents sports organizations in the field of basketball
• Represents National Governing Bodies of Olympic Sport, including USA Football, USA Gymnastics, USA Diving and USA Track & Field
• Represents authors in prepublication manuscript review and in negotiating publishing agreements
• Represents large manufacturer on comparative advertising analysis
• Represents marketing, public relations and advertising agencies regarding copyright matters, trademark matters and publishing trademarks
• Advises home builders on issues surrounding copyright in architectural works
• Represents clients in challenges to brand names in the U.S., China, Korea and Europe

Honors

• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2016
• American Intellectual Property Law Association — Fellow
• Sports Business Journal — Power Players: Outside Counsel, Executive Class, 2016
• Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2013-14, 2016
• American Intellectual Property Law Association — Mentor of the Year, 2013
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana — Recognized for taking the most Mediation Assistance Program pro bono cases, 2013
• National Association of Women Business Owners-Indianapolis (NAWBO-Indy) — Indianapolis Choice Award, 2011
• Indiana Super Lawyers — Rising Star, Intellectual Property, 2009
• Phi Beta Kappa National Academic Honor Society, 1992

Professional Associations

• Indianapolis Bar Association — Intellectual Property Section
• Indiana State Bar Association — Intellectual Property Section
• American Intellectual Property Law Association — Board of Directors, 2012-15; Committee on Legislation, 2016-19; Long-Range & Strategic Planning Committee, 2013-present; Women in IP Retention and Advancement Subcommittee, 2015-present; Nominating Committee, 2011; Sports & Entertainment Law Subcommittee (Chair, 2010-present); Trademark Committee (Chair, 2010-11; Vice Chair, 2009-10); IT Task Force, 2008-10; IP Law Associations Committee, 2009-present; Mentoring Committee (Vice Chair, 2007-08)
• International Trademark Association
• Sports Circle Indy (not-for-profit networking organization for Indianapolis region) — Co-founder, 2011; Board of Directors (Secretary, 2012-present)
• Indiana Sports Corporation, Member

Contact

Amie Peele Carter
300 N. Meridian Street
Suite 2700
Indianapolis, Indiana, 46204
T: 317.237.1180
F: 317.237.1000