Colleen R. Wellington-Caban

Colleen Wellington-Caban focuses her practice on counseling, prosecution, transaction, and litigation matters in the areas of trademark, copyright, and advertising law. Colleen advises some of the world’s most notable brands on the selection, maintenance, and enforcement of their global trademark portfolios. She also has experience working on trademark disputes before the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Prior to joining Cooley, Colleen worked with a boutique intellectual property firm assisting startups and established companies alike to develop, maintain and enforce their trademark portfolios. Prior to and throughout law school she worked with an international intellectual property trade association, serving owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. Colleen managed the organization’s committee structure, working closely with committees focused on open source, international trademark, anti-counterfeiting and intellectual property licensing issues. She also developed partnership relationships and programming for the association’s nonprofit education foundation, devoted to educating the public about the importance of intellectual property rights. While attending American University Washington College of Law, Colleen was an active executive board member and competitor with the Transactional Law Society, where she coached competition teams and competed in negotiation competitions, winning national and international titles. She was also a legal intern at the Sixth Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland.