About Julia L. Mazur

Julia Mazur is a versatile attorney who represents clients across diverse industries, from technology to fashion, in intellectual property matters. Clients trust her strategic approach to achieving optimal results, strengthening their intellectual property rights and minimizing risks.

Protecting ideas and brands across many industries

Julia represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including food and beverage, technology, fashion, entertainment, hospitality, consumer goods and life sciences. She seeks to efficiently obtain the best results for her clients, tailored to their unique business needs.

Julia helps clients through all phases of complex civil litigation, from pleadings and preliminary injunctions through trial and appeals. She has served as counsel in litigations in district courts throughout the United States, as well as in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), and has been mentioned in several articles in professional journals regarding cases in which she played an active role. Julia has worked on creative settlements to avoid or end disputes, participated in numerous mediations, and has assisted a mediator to settle several intellectual property cases.

Apart from litigation, Julia counsels clients on a wide range of other issues, including minimizing the risk of disputes and strengthening intellectual property rights, as well as providing clearance opinions and assisting clients with trademark prosecution and registration.

Julia is also committed to her pro bono practice. She helped secure the release of a client who had been wrongfully imprisoned for more than 24 years, and has also applied her trademark law knowledge to counsel pro bono clients through their rebranding efforts and the federal and state trademark registration processes. Additionally, Julia is currently a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and an active member of Chicago Women in IP (ChiWIP).

While in law school, Julia completed an externship with the Honorable Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and worked at the Exoneration Project.

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Practice Focus

  • Intellectual property and unfair competition counseling and litigation
  • Global trademark enforcement and litigation
  • Advertising, marketing and promotions counseling and litigation
  • Proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  • Complex business disputes in federal and state courts, mediations and arbitrations
  • Trade secret protection and litigation

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Education
  • The University of Chicago Law School, JD
  • University of Minnesota, BA
Bar Admissions
  • Illinois
Court Admissions
  • US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Recognitions
Recognized or listed in the following:
  • Best Lawyers in America
    Ones to Watch
    Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2023, 2025
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Pro Bono Service Award
    2020
  • Managing Intellectual Property
    Rising Stars, 2019-2023
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars
    Illinois, 2019–2022
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