Linda Friedman was a partner before retiring at Bradley. She was a veteran of the intellectual property, antitrust, and business torts bars, with 40 years of experience as a litigator and counselor. She was named in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Intellectual Property and Franchise Law, and in Alabama Super Lawyers for Intellectual Property. Linda was a past chair of the Alabama Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust and Business Torts, and lectured frequently on trademark and copyright topics, and trade secret protection, as well as state and federal antitrust issues.

Linda’s litigation practice was concentrated in trade regulation and marketing matters, including competitive torts, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, franchisee/franchisor disputes, distributor/supplier disputes, antitrust, and covenants not to compete. She regularly advised clients in these areas and on contract and distribution issues, and software contracts. Her practice included selection, registration, and protection of trademarks; copyrights; licensing; and dispute resolutions. Linda assisted clients in filing trademark applications in approximately 90 countries, and defended and prosecuted opposition and cancellation proceedings in the U.S. and several foreign countries.

Linda defended as well as prosecuted numerous intellectual property cases in federal district courts and on appeal to U.S. Courts of Appeals and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She served on a Task Force of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to draft pattern jury instructions in copyright cases.

Transactional Practice

Linda represented businesses and individuals in acquiring and protecting intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other rights whether secured by license, inventorship, registration, or otherwise. She frequently counseled clients in navigating laws and resolving disputes regarding domain names, internet marketing, and website policies and practices. She advised companies selling or acquiring businesses, particularly with respect to the companies’ intellectual property, and negotiated the contract terms, as well as negotiated other contracts involving intellectual property. Her clients included information technology developers and licensors, software licensees, healthcare providers, publishers, authors, financial institutions, building products suppliers, and businesses at every level of distribution. Linda’s transactional practice was informed by her extensive litigation experience involving intellectual property disputes and disputes in the related fields of marketing, competitive torts, and antitrust.

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 1976

• Supreme Court of the United States
• United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
• United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama

Education

• Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1976, Associate Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review
• Kenyon College, A.B., 1973, (three years, including one year at Sorbonne, University of Paris), summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa