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