Cassidy Grunninger is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP. Cassidy is located in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office where she is a member of the Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practice.
Prior to Foley, Cassidy was an associate with a nationally recognized firm where she focused on domestic and international trademark clearance searches prosecuting copyright and trademark applications worldwide, negotiated and settled copyright infringement cases. She was a legal clerk for the United States Copyright Office, and her legal internships were at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the Recording Industry Association of America.
- Author, “An Interview with Regan Smith, General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office,” Landslide® Magazine (December 2020)
- Author, “Filing Copyright Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Dunner Law PLLC Blog (September 24, 2020)
- Author, “How Brexit will Impact Pre-existing Registrations and Pending Applications in the EU,” Dunner Law PLLC Blog (February 20, 2020)
- Presenter, “Copyright and Trademark Law Basics for Business Owners and Creators,” Greyhounds Reach the Beach Annual Conference (October 2019)
- Presenter, “Trademark Standard of Use: Registration vs. Infringement,” Dunner Law Lunch and Learn (May 2019)
- Presenter, “Upcoming Influential Copyright Cases in 2019,” Dunner Law Lunch and Learn (January 2019)
- Author, “Dunner Law Trademarks 101: What is a Trademark?” Dunner Law PLLC Blog (November 27, 2019)
- Author, “Combatting Online Copyright Infringement,” Dunner Law PLLC Blog (February 20, 2018)
- Author, “A Tale of Two Composers: An Argument for a Limited Expansion of Moral Rights for Composers,” 24 J. Intell. Prop. L. (2017)
- Moderator, “Big Data and the Law: Exploring Legal Issues in Big Data,” Board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law (January 27, 2017)
- University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., 2017)
- Senior online editor, Executive Board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law
- Research assistant for Professor Andrea Dennis (Fall 2015)
- Recipient of the Hughes Spalding, Frank Brogan Memorial and Tuition Equalization Scholarships
- Member of the American Bar Association and Student Bar Associations
- Member of the International Law, Intellectual Property Law and Sports and Entertainment Law Societies
- Member, Women in IP
- Attended, European Union Business Law
- Attended, WTO Trade Practice Summer Program, Brussels & Geneva
- University of Colorado (M.M., 2014)
- Recipient, Nancy & Ted Anderson Music Scholarship
- Recipient, Pete Smythe AMRC Scholarship
- Recipient, Peter and Julianne Steinhauer Scholarship
- Mercer University (B.A., 2009)
- Recipient, Dean’s List
- Recipient, Presidential Scholarship
- Winner, Mercer Chamber Music Ensemble Competition
- Vice-chair of philanthropy, Washington Performing Arts Junior Board
- District of Columbia
- New York