Mari-Elise Paul

Mari-Elise is a native Mainer and loves everything New England, especially the lobstah. With a goal of becoming either a professional modern dancer or a Rockette, Mari-Elise attended the University of Maryland and received a double degree in Dance and English with a concentration in language, writing, and rhetoric. Mari-Elise attended the University of Louisville for law school. She started working in the Alexandria office of Stites & Harbison in 2010 but makes regular trips to Nashville and Louisville to see her Trademarkology pals.

When not writing clever, witty blog posts and surmising about developments in trademark law, Mari-Elise can be found in a hot room practicing yoga. She has a love of Bikram yoga and is now an instructor at Zweet Sport. Mari-Elise enjoys attempting to play golf, experimenting in the kitchen by making overly complicated recipes, watching sports, and traveling. She is an avid Louisville Cardinals fan and rarely misses a game.

Alex MacKay

Alex is camera shy (see Ex. A at right). Or maybe she is in a time out. Hard to tell. Either way, you don't see her face very often because she usually has her nose to the grindstone. She enjoys working hard to protect the interests of her clients as they select, adapt, acquire, register, license, and enforce their trademark rights.

When not otherwise engaged in the practice and study of trademark law, you can usually find Alex engaged in the practice and study of violin.

Brewster Taylor

Brewster was born in Washington, D.C. He went to school in D.C. until leaving to attend college in New York. After college, he spent a couple of ve1y enjoyable years living and working in Europe before going to graduate school in North Carolina for a year to obtain a Master's Degree in English. Brewster then worked as a teacher for a couple of years in Sweden before deciding to return to DC for law school. Not long after he began his career as a lawyer, Brewster married Patty, whom he had first met when she was the fifteen-year-old maid of honor at the wedding of his brother and her sister. They have been married for over thirty-one years and have two daughters and a son. Brewster had begun his career at a general practice firm, but soon he joined the intellectual property firm of Larson & Taylor and had the privilege of working together with his father, a patent attorney, for a number of years before his father's retirement. Larson & Taylor became the Alexandria office of Stites & Harbison in 2004, and the office remains largely focused on the practice of intellectual property law.

History has always been important to Brewster, and he considers himself very lucky to be living in an area which has been so significant in American history. He also enjoys traveling to all kinds of different places that have particular historical meaning to him and reading about the history of the U.S. and other countries. He keeps up with the Swedish he learned in Europe in part by reading Swedish history and Swedish historical fiction. His interest in history also extends to old languages like Latin and the Old English he studied in graduate school. Brewster also enjoys running, and even when he is running, it is to the sound of jazz from the 1960s.

Alexandria, Virginia
1199 N. Fairfax Street,
Suite 900
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
P: 703-739-4900
F: 703-739-9577

Franklin, Tennessee
604 West Main Street
Franklin, Tennessee 37064
P: 615-595-0636
F: 615-599-6012

Nashville, Tennessee
401 Commerce Street
Suite 800
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
P: 615-782-2200
F: 615-782-2371

Louisville, Kentucky
400 West Market Street,
Suite 1800
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
P: 502-587-3400
F: 502-587-6391