International, national and regional publications have relied on Mark as an authority on trademarks, copyright, the Internet and other intellectual property issues.
Entrepreneur Magazine - "Name Calling, Playing the Trademark Game" by Charlotte Mulhern
"Rights in names or trademarks in the United States arise
from use in commerce--not necessarily from registration," says
Mark Partridge, a Chicago attorney specializing in trademark and
unfair competition law. "[Small businesses] have to understand
that just thinking of a name and getting a registration doesn't
give you a monopoly." more
Crain's Chicago Business - "Chicago Seeking Trademarks on City Assets" by Gregory Meyer
The bandwagon for merchandising marks got rolling in the 1980s, when
sports teams decided to profit from their logos, said Mark Partridge, a
partner in trademark, copyright and Internet law at the Chicago firm of
Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP.
Universities followed suit, then governments. more
The National Law Journal - "Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find" by Lynne Marek
"The more obstacles you put in the way of that direct communication,
the more costly it gets to resolve legitimate disputes," said Mark
Partridge, a partner at Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard &
Geraldson in Chicago.
In some cases, there is more at stake
than money and a brand. Partridge, who is a panelist with the Geneva
arbitration organization and who sometimes decides domain name
disputes, said that last year he granted a request to have a site
stripped of its domain name when a major pharmaceutical company
complained that the Web site was marketing a fake diet pill with a name
that resembled the company's products. more Los Angeles Business Journal - "Whopping $20 million ruling in trademark infringement case" by Wade Daniels
Mark Partridge, a trademark law professor at the John Marshall Law
School in Chicago, said the $20 million verdict is unusually large for
a trademark case. He said the largest such case, decided in 1992,
involved a $25 million judgment. more