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Garfield is a principal at Saidman DesignLaw Group, and leads the Firm’s trademark and copyright practice with over 17 years experience, focusing on designs, configurations of consumer goods and packaging and non-traditional trademarks, including the WESTERN UNION® golden yellow colors®, as well as other internationally-known designs and brands. Garfield has cleared and prosecuted registrations for hundreds of trademarks and copyright protected works, and has actively litigated design, design copyright and trademark infringement and inter-partes matters. Garfield has prosecuted and enforced design rights in a range of goods, including cookie and craft molds, weaves and patterns, tile and floor coverings, gel appliqués, plush sculptures, wire sculptures and furniture. He has litigated against defendants ranging from clients' former employees and joint-venturers to national retail chains to multinational tobacco companies.

Garfield has particular experience in managing multi-lawsuit Intellectual Property enforcement programs, including for design-oriented consumer goods companies, performing artist merchandisers and a performing rights society. In addition, he is well experienced in IP acquisitions and transactions, including licensing and joint-development projects. Garfield’s LL.M. thesis at George Washington University Law School (in progress) is an international comparative study of design protection via copyright and sui generis legislation. Before joining Saidman DesignLaw Group, Garfield practiced with two national law firms and was general counsel of a New England giftware designer and manufacturer. Garfield is a member of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the American Intellectual Property Law Association (Copyright Law and Industrial Designs Committees) and International Trademark Association (Firm).

Outside of the office, Garfield enjoys horseback riding, rock climbing and pro bono work.

Recent News & Speeches:

• UPCOMING - 10/2010: AIPLA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., presenter: Timely Registration and Correct Marking of Design Copyrights -- Oft-Neglected, Valuable Assets.
• 5/25/2010: INTA Annual Meeting 2010 in Boston, Table Topic Moderator: Effective Design Protection Using Copyright, Trade Dress and Design Patents.
• 5/6/10: AIPLA Spring Meeting 2010 in New York City, Presentation to the AIPLA Copyright Committee on the status of the Case Summary Project; May 6 at 3:30 PM in the Julliard Room, Fifth Floor, at the New York Marriott Marquis.
• 3/16/10: Coordinator, AIPLA Copyright Committee’s Case Summary Project. Garfield initiated the Project with the Committee co-chairs, and will co-ordinate the effort and provide content.
• 1/29/10: AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute 2010 in La Quinta, CA, presenter: Multiple Copyrights Under a Single Registration and Proposed Efficiencies in Mandatory Deposits and Fees.
  On January 29, 2010, Garfield Goodrum presented a paper to the AIPLA’s 2010 Mid-Winter Institute on methods to register multiple copyrights efficiently, enforcing such copyrights and copyright registration practice in general. Read Garfield’s paper or view his slides from this event.
• 11/6/09: $774,000 Jury Verdict for Willful Copyright Infringement
  On November 6, 2009, SAIDMAN DesignLaw Group principal Garfield Goodrum secured a jury verdict of $774,000 for willful copyright infringement in a visual design case on behalf of the firm's client Design Ideas, Ltd. against national retailer Things Remembered, Inc. Design Ideas, Ltd., v. Things Remembered, Inc., Case No. 3:07-cv-03077 (C.D. Ill. Filed March 16, 2007.) Garfield writes about the case in our newsletter, view PDF of full article. 

Admitted:

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire; U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; New Hampshire Supreme Court (ret.); Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Education:

• LL.M. candidate, George Washington University Law School, Intellectual Property and International Law
• J.D., Vermont Law School
• Middlebury College, German School, 1993-1994
• B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland

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