ANDREA E. BATES
PARTNER
University Illinois Chicago, J.D.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, B.A.
Georgia | California | Washington
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Andrea Bates is a founder of Bates & Bates, and specializes in the protection and commercialization of intellectual property. She concentrates her practice on sophisticated worldwide IP management and counseling to strategically position clients patents, brands and images in the global marketplace and to enhance and increase the value of each client's intellectual property with the goal of increasing the client's market share. Andrea's practice includes trademark, patent, copyright, domain name and related intellectual property matters. She serves as intellectual property counsel, with a focus on trademark matters, for significant trademark owners around the world, including Gibson Brands, The Coca-Cola Company and Chemours. She specializes in coordinating worldwide portfolios from a global procurement, maintenance, enforcement and strategic management perspective.
Ms. Bates also has an extensive background in intellectual property litigation and conflict matters. She has been involved with both domestic and international intellectual property disputes dealing with patents, trademark and trade dress infringement. Andrea is a former partner of Greenberg Traurig. She also served as Chief IP counsel for Checkfree Corporation and General Counsel for Checkfree Software. Andrea excelled in advising in the development and protection exploitation of company intellectual property.