Darlene S. Klinksieck, Trademark Administrator (Email: dklinksieck@sgbdc.com): Ms. Klinksieck has over 25 years' experience in trademark clearance, prosecution, maintenance, management and enforcement. As the firm's Trademark Portfolio Manager, she performs online availability/registrability searches for proposed marks, reviews formal search reports and prepares preliminary opinions, prepares/files/prosecutes applications, declarations, renewals and Letters of Protest before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, prepares extensions, Notices of Opposition, Petitions to Cancel and answers thereto before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, prepares Cease and Desist Letters, Assignment Agreements and Co-Existence Agreements, acts as foreign agent liaison for international prosecution and litigation practice, monitors the Official Gazette - Trademarks and various Watch reports. She is also responsible for conducting post-registration maintenance and protection of clients' marks, as well as overseeing the firm's Docket Administrator. Additionally, she’s spent substantive time in all aspects of litigation and trial support, including acting as Case Manager for large-scale litigations, second-seating depositions, overseeing document productions, determination of privileged or otherwise protected documents, overseeing database development and data entry and document management for materials produced, assisting in selection of trial exhibits and designation of sponsoring witnesses, arranging for creation of demonstrative evidence for courtroom use, overseeing issuance of trial subpoenas, preparation of trial notebooks and making logistical arrangements for and assisting at trials, as well as document and information productions responsive to federal and state government/administrative agency investigations.; As an Assistant Adjunct Professor of the University of Maryland University College, she taught, both online and in classroom, the "Trademarks" section of an Intellectual Property course offered in the University's Legal Studies Program; she also authored the course materials and curriculum.; Ms. Klinksieck graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland University College, where she also obtained a Legal Studies Certificate, and is a M.A.L.A. Candidate at Marymount University.; She has been quoted, on various topics, in the Legal Times; has served in various leadership positions with the International Trademark Association (and currently sits on the Trademark Reporter Committee); and is the author of several articles, including "March (Trademark) Madness," American Journalism Review (September 1998), and "A Kinder, Gentler Trademark Office," Trademark World (February 2000). She has been active in the International Trademark Association for over 20 years and is currently a member of the Trademark Reporter Committee.