Primary Role

This attorney will serve as a trusted legal advisor responsible for protecting some of the most valuable assets of Tapestry, Inc. and its Coach and kate spade new york brands. The role combines hands-on execution with strategic counseling across intellectual property clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and brand protection programs, partnering with cross-functional teams to support innovation, mitigate risk, and preserve brand equity worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct clearance reviews for names, designs, artwork, prints, packaging, and campaign assets, including risk assessments and go/no-go recommendations on routine and moderately complex matters.
• Participate in seasonal legal walkthroughs with the Coach and kate spade new york design teams.
• Manage global trademark prosecution, including office action responses, renewals, and portfolio maintenance, in collaboration with the IP paralegal and foreign counsel.
• Handle routine contentious matters, including watch notice reviews, cease-and-desist correspondence, oppositions and cancellations, coexistence and consent discussions, and the resolution of straightforward intellectual property disputes.
• Support global brand protection efforts and oversee day-to-day enforcement activities in North and South America across marketplaces, social media platforms, and domain names, including takedowns, customs recordations, and coordination with investigators, law enforcement, and enforcement vendors.
• Support the training and supervision of intellectual property interns and externs, including assigning and reviewing substantive work such as clearance searches and portfolio research, providing day-to-day direction, delivering performance feedback, and contributing to the continued development of the program.
• Provide input on portfolio reporting, brand protection metrics, and legal key performance indicator (KPI) reporting.
• Support regional legal teams and cross-functional workstreams on intellectual property matters arising within their markets.

Qualifications

Required

• J.D. from an accredited law school and admission in good standing to the New York or New Jersey Bar.
• Three to five years of substantive trademark, copyright, design patent, and brand protection experience gained at a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination of both.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement matters, and effectively communicate legal risk assessments to non-lawyers.
• Experience advising marketing, creative, or product teams in a high-volume, deadline-driven commercial environment.
• Experience managing and directing outside counsel on assigned matters.
• Working knowledge of copyright law, rights of publicity, advertising claims, and online enforcement mechanisms.

Preferred

• Experience in the consumer products, fashion, luxury, or retail industries.
• Experience with design rights, trade dress, or design patent strategy.
• Experience with Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) oppositions and cancellations, Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceedings, or customs recordation programs.
• Familiarity with intellectual property docketing and clearance platforms, as well as legal intake and workflow management tools.
• Experience supporting international trademark portfolios and coordinating with a network of foreign counsel.

Our Competencies for All Employees

Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Base Pay Range
$115,000.00-$130,000.00

Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.