At SignPost IP, we believe protecting your brand shouldn’t be overwhelming or out of reach. As a boutique intellectual property firm with BigLaw experience, we bring a unique mix of industry expertise and personal attention to every client.

We are familiar with protecting brands that symbolize cutting-edge technologies in industries ranging from AI to software to healthcare to retail to human resources and beyond.

From working with entrepreneurs to secure their first trademark to advising global companies on complex trademark portfolios, our approach is strategic, transparent, creative, and aligned to your goals. You won’t feel lost in legal jargon or buried in the process — we keep things clear, practical, and client-oriented. We focus on long-term protection, not just quick fixes, and tailor each solution to your business and industry.

More than just your lawyers, we strive to be your partners in growth.

Big Impact. Agile Approach.

About SignPost IP

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Our Founders

Jamie’s passion for intellectual property law began in 2000 as a senior at Tufts University. It was the middle of the dot-com boom, and on one fateful day during an internship at Monster.com, she discovered that she wanted to spend her career working with businesses to protect their most important assets — their intellectual property. Jamie hasn’t looked back since.

For more than 20 years, Jamie has protected the trademarks and copyrighted works of entrepreneurs, non-profits, global corporations, and those in between.

Jamie has significant experience in the U.S. and globally with strategic trademark and copyright protection, enforcement, defense, transactions, and litigation. Jamie has practiced extensively before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Copyright Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and in federal courts across the country.

Over the course of her career, Jamie has registered hundreds of trademarks with the USPTO, taken down thousands of infringing domain names, websites, social media pages, and mobile apps, and resolved a high percentage of infringement disputes in her clients’ favor without resorting to litigation. She also has a perfect success rate with Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy (UDRP) proceedings (she’s been involved in 15).

Clients regularly praise Jamie’s accessibility and her ability to creatively and efficiently solve problems and resolve disputes.

Jamie has been recognized as a top trademark attorney by World Trademark Review WTR 1000 (2022 – 2025) and by Super Lawyers for her intellectual property practice in Connecticut (2022) and Massachusetts (2024).

Jamie has been an International Trademark Association (INTA) committee member for more than a decade and currently serves on the Professional Development Committee. She is also a contributing author for the 2022 bestselling book Women in Law: Discovering the True Meaning of Success.

Jamie also owns Drumlin Strategies, LLC, where she coaches, consults, and trains IP attorneys on business development and LinkedIn and prepares them to attend industry conferences.

Professional Organizations

  • International Trademark Association (INTA), Committee Member (2014 – present)

    • Professional Development Committee

    • Internet Committee

    • Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee

    • Emerging Issues Committee

  • Connecticut Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section, Executive Committee (2015 – present), currently serving as Co-Chair

  • Connecticut Women’s Council, Member (2024 - present)

  • USA500 Member (2022 - 2025)

  • eWomenNetwork, Member (2020 - 2023)

Speaking Engagements

  • How to Optimize LinkedIn to Generate Clients and Referrals, International Intellectual Property Society (April 10, 2026)

  • Use LinkedIn to Drive Growth and Visibility for Your Legal Practice, Connecticut Bar Association (March 6, 2025)

  • Using LinkedIn to Drive Growth and Visibility, Monroe County Bar Association Solo & Small Law Firm Conference (April 19, 2024)

  • Women in Business Summit, Panel Discussion on Success for Female Entrepreneurs and Professionals (April 28, 2023)

  • IP Year in Review: Hot Topics in Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Law, Connecticut Bar Association (March 29, 2023)

  • Trade Dress for Success: Strategies for Securing Trade Dress Protection, Alt Legal Connect (February 7, 2023)

  • NYSBA Antitrust Law Section Annual Meeting – Diversity Panel, New York State Bar Association (January 17, 2023)

  • Ethical Practices for Communications with Clients, Opposing Parties, and the USPTO, Connecticut Bar Association (December 1, 2022)

  • Women in Law Discovery the True Meaning of Success, Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference, Minority Corporate Counsel Association (2022)

  • Trademarks: Choosing, Searching, and Registering Brand Names, Logos, and Slogans, eWomenNetwork (2022)

  • Effective Strategies to Successfully Resolve U.S. Trademark Disputes, Lawline (2021)

  • Intellectual Property Issues Related to Creating Courses, C3 Collaborative (2021)

  • Trademark SEarching, Registration, and Enforcement, EnVision + Thrive Academy (2021)

  • Anatomy of a Trademark Case, Connecticut Bar Association (2020)

  • Trademark Legal Series Parts 1 - 3, University of Hartford Entrepreneurial Center and Women’s Business Center (2020)

Podcast Appearances

  • Should Lawyers Stick to Legal & Business Topics on LinkedIn?, Life & Law Podcast, Episode 185 (January 21, 2025)

  • How Human Design Can Help You Find Alignment in Your Career, Powerhouse Lawyers, Episode 69 (August 27, 2024)

  • The Attorney’s Guide to Crushing It on LinkedIn, Powerhouse Lawyers, Episode 59 (June 18, 2024)

  • Unleashing the Power of Mentorship and Networking, The Free Lawyer, Episode 142 (September 14, 2023)

  • Building a Legal Practice, The Thought Leadership Project, Episode 129 (August 24, 2023)

  • The Human Behind the Trademark Attorney, The Sovereign Professional’s Podcast (April 19, 2022)

  • Building a Network on LinkedIn, Mom Life and Law, Episode 47 (June 22, 2021)

Publications

  • Women in Law: Discovering the True Meaning of Success, Contributing Author (2022)

Achievements

  • World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000 (2021 – 2025)

  • SuperLawyers for Intellectual Property Law in Connecticut (2022) and Massachusetts (2024)

  • World IP Forum, 250 Powerful Women of IP (2021)

Education

  • University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Juris Doctor (2005)

  • Tufts University, Bachelor of Arts, Political Science (2001)

State and Federal Admissions

  • Connecticut

  • Massachusetts

  • Vermont (inactive)

  • U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District New York

  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

  • U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont

Co-Founding Partner

Connecticut and Massachusetts
+1.860.882.8890
jamie@signpostip.com
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Jamie Sternberg

Gabriele Fougner Hägglöf

Co-Founding Partner

Colorado, New York, and Sweden
+1.917.890.7682
gabi@signpostip.com
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Gabi's practice focuses on providing strategic counsel to clients to establish, exploit, and defend brand assets, including trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, trade secrets, and domain names, domestically and abroad. Gabi’s passion is helping her clients protect the ventures they have spent their time building, counseling clients across a wide range of industries, including the tech, gaming, industrial, fashion, health, and beverage industries.

Gabi's practice encompasses developing and executing complex trademark and copyright prosecution strategies and obtaining and maintaining U.S. and foreign trademark and copyright protection, including analyzing the availability of trademarks for use and registration, prosecuting trademark applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and copyright applications before the U.S. Copyright Office, and working with a vast network of foreign counsel to register trademarks around the world.

In addition, Gabi develops and implements strategies to enforce and defend intellectual property assets. She regularly negotiates resolutions and litigates intellectual property disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in opposition and cancellation proceedings and in federal court.

Gabi’s practice also includes the negotiation and preparation of trademark and copyright assignment, license, consent, and coexistence agreements.

Gabi has been praised by clients as being easy to work with, creative, and understanding of the language of business.

Gabi graduated from the New York Law School’s Two-Year Honors Program in December 2019, where she focused her studies on intellectual property law and graduated cum laude and salutatorian of her class. Gabi earned her J.D. from New York Law, as well as the Innovation Center for Law and Technology’s Intellectual Property Law Certificate and Fashion Law Certificate, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Skills Program’s ADR Certificate. Gabi also served on The New York Law School Law Review and Media, Entertainment, and Fashion Law Association. During law school, Gabi worked as a judicial intern at the New York State Unified Court System for the Honorable Alexander Tisch and as a fashion law intern on the Supreme Court case Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Grp., Inc., 140 S. Ct. 1589 (2020). Before attending law school, Gabi received a B.A. in Political Science with a Film and Television concentration from Boston University.

Gabi is a native of California, now living in the mountains of Colorado, and speaks both English and American Sign Language fluently, as well as Hebrew and Swedish proficiently.

Professional Organizations

  • Colorado Bar Association

    • IP Section, Vice Chair

    • Litigation Section

  • Denver Bar Association

  • New York State Bar Association

  • International Trademark Association (INTA), 2019-present

    • Trademark Reporter Committee, Member (2022-2024)

Publications

  • "Book Review: Intellectual Property and Sustainable Markets. Ole-Andreas Rognstad and Inger B. Orstavik, eds." The Trademark Reporter (The Law Journal of the International Trademark Association), Vol. 114, May-June 2024

State and Federal Admissions

  • New York

  • Colorado

  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Representative Matters

  • Advised incubation clients on clearance for new technologies and offerings

  • Managed domestic and international trademark portfolios for clients in a wide variety of industries, including tech clients in stealth mode

  • Successfully represented numerous clients in trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), including Red Cell Partners, LLC v. DW Franklin Consulting Group LLC, Andesite AI, Inc. v. BULL SAS, and more

  • Successfully represented clients in trademark litigation disputes in United States federal courts

  • Counseled clients on complex trade dress protection, filing strategies, and enforcement programs

  • Prevailed in a Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceeding

  • Counseled board game client on IP portfolio growth