Justin McNaughton

Justin McNaughton is a member of the Intellectual Property practice group at Greenspoon Marder. As a trademark attorney, he assists clients in protecting the hard earned goodwill their brands represent. He particularly enjoys difficult trademark areas, such as protecting cannabis brands and securing non-traditional trademarks, such as sounds.

With a background in structuring and executing deals, he works with businesses to find success through joint ventures and collaborations, and he assists clients in licensing brands, licensing inventions, and buying and selling companies. Startups and entrepreneurs choose Mr. McNaughton for his practical approach to company formation, intellectual property assignments, operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, shared services agreements, and for general corporate advice.

As a registered patent attorney, Mr. McNaughton helps clients to protect their inventions and investments. Select patents he has helped secure include a “stabilizing recoil lug and rail for rifle scope mounting,” a “harness for a violin,” a “bridge for an electronic instrument,” a “high efficiency distillation head,” a “short path distillation head,” and a “water shelter or shed to protect a worker from heat, smoke, fire and chemicals.”

Mr. McNaughton has significant experience in the following practice areas and industries:

• Trademark protection
• Patent prosecution and drafting
• Copyright law
• Internet and website law
• Commercial contracts and technology licensing
• Biotechnology and life sciences
• Entrepreneurs and startups
• Technology, software, trademark and patent licenses
• Technology transfer agreements
• Product research and development agreements
• Intellectual property acquisition agreements
• Website terms and conditions
• Privacy policies
• Purchasing agreements.

Mr. McNaughton was the President of the Young Lawyers Division of the Nashville Bar Association in 2016, where he assisted fundraising and organizing events such as Race Judicata, Arts Immersion, Carbolic Smoke Ball, Brews for Backpacks, and Craft Beers for Costumes.

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Missouri
• Tennessee
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

• J.D., Washington University, 2004
• B.A., Microbiology, Brigham Young University, 2001