Heather L. Heft
Partner
New York
Biography
Heather L. Heft concentrates her intellectual property practice on all aspects of trademark, copyright and unfair competition law, including domestic and international counseling, clearance, filing, prosecution and protection. She also focuses on Internet and related matters. She counsels on intellectual rights enforcement, including Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, ICANN domain dispute arbitrations, and Federal Court litigation. In addition, Ms. Heft advises clients on the transactional aspects of intellectual property law, including due diligence, assignments, licensing, and related agreements.
Ms. Heft has covered such varied industries as pharmaceutical, food and beverage, technology, financial services, consumer products, cosmetics, retail services, fashion and apparel, publishing, media, and entertainment. She joined Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan after practicing with a boutique, woman-owned intellectual property firm in New York and had practiced for more than a decade prior to that in the intellectual property department of a national law firm.
She currently is the chair of the CLE committee of the Intellectual Property Practice Area of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (“NAMWOLF”). Ms. Heft recently served as a member of the Law Firm Committee and Authorship Project Team subcommittee of the International Trademark Association (“INTA”).
Ms. Heft is an active speaker and author on a variety of intellectual property related topics. Most recently, she co-authored “Advancing the Trademark Profession through Mentoring”, which published in the INTA’s Bulletin (February 2015) and authored and spoke on “Mid-Year Case Law in Review (Trademark)” at the 2014 American Intellectual Property Law Association (“AIPLA”) Spring Meeting.
Ms. Heft earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an Articles Editor on the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (formerly Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts). She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, with honors and distinction in American History. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, as well as the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Education & Bar Admissions
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D.
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A., cum laude, with honors and distinction in American History
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
