We are pleased to announce that Lauren Byrne joined Hovey Williams LLP as an Associate Attorney in 2021. She concentrates her practice on trademark rights, copyright law, and intellectual property transactions. Her expertise focuses on a full range of trademark transactions, including trademark clearance searches, trademark application prosecution, assignments, and renewals, to enforcing and defending trademark rights from infringement.

“Lauren greatly enhances our trademark team and expands our client reach, by helping individuals and businesses protect their trade secrets, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. We are very happy she is part of Team Hovey,” said partner, Joan Herman.

She was awarded her J.D., magna cum laude, from Michigan State University College of Law in 2014 where she was an Associate Editor of the Michigan State Law Review and practiced under a Limited Trademark Attorney License through the USPTO Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program. She earned her B.A., from the University of Kansas in 2010 with Highest distinction (top 3% of class), with honors and was inducted as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Prior to joining Hovey Williams, Lauren worked at Thomson Reuters Practical Law and at Barber Emerson, L.C. She was named as a Rising Star of the Kansas Bar Association in 2019.

A world leader in intellectual property protection, Hovey Williams LLP has a 90-year track record of protecting our clients’ patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and other intellectual property in virtually every major business sector. We assist clients locally, nationally, and internationally with the full range of intellectual property issues. We represent established companies, startups, and individual inventors across a wide range of industries. You Create. We Protect.