Amy Berge

Principal Partner

Phone: (502) 625-2887

Honors & Awards

Louisville Central Community Center –Inclusive Equity Award 2021

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Intellectual Property – Kentucky, 2008-Present

Best Lawyers in America®, Copyright Law; Trademark Law, 2006 – Present; 2018, 2022 Louisville Lawyer of the Year, Copyright Law; 2019 Louisville Lawyer of the Year, Trademark Law

Advertising Federation of Louisville Five Star Service Award for Committed Service on the Board and Executive Committee

Managing Intellectual Property, IP Stars, 2015 – Present

Kentucky Super Lawyers® for Intellectual Property in 2013 – 2023

Super Lawyers® Top 25 Kentucky Women Lawyers and Top 50 Kentucky Lawyers in 2019 – 2020, 2022 – 2023

Featured in 2019 KentuckySuperLawyers Magazine

 

Overview

For over 35 years, Amy Berge has provided counseling and business advice to global corporations, large and small businesses, and startups. She advises on trademarks, copyrights, technology, advertising, online privacy, licensing, and related issues. As an advisor and litigator, Amy guides clients through protection of their trademark and copyright portfolios – from development and management to exploitation, problem solving, negotiation, and enforcement, and everything in-between.

Amy looks for practical, cost-efficient solutions. Clients rely on her to manage their national and international portfolios, handle disputes, obtain and maintain trademark and copyright registrations, and negotiate agreements. Her industry experience spans publishing, retail, manufacturing, sporting goods, tobacco and related adult products, casinos/horse racing/gaming, health/health insurance, senior living, entertainment, artists, and pharmaceuticals.

Amy has represented clients in Federal Court and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has also been called upon as a mediator, having completed her mediation training through the Kentucky Bar Association.

Her advice is informed by time spent in-house, where twice in her career she was “on loan” to key firm clients including a multinational tobacco company and a global automobile producer’s North American manufacturing headquarters.

Amy has been recognized for several years by Chambers USA (Band 1 for Intellectual Property), Best Lawyers in America® (since 2006), including as Louisville’s Trademark Lawyer of the Year and Copyright Lawyer of the Year, and an IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine. Super Lawyers® has recognized Amy as among the Top 25 Kentucky Women Lawyers and the Top 50 Kentucky Lawyers. She has also received awards for her service to the American Advertising Federation (Louisville) and by the Louisville Central Community Center for her efforts in supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Amy is committed to mentoring and promoting female attorneys. She served as national counsel for the National Association of Woman Business Owners. Currently, Amy is an Executive Committee Member and the Board Chair-Elect of the Jeffersontown Chamber of Commerce and Vice President of the Jeffersontown Economic Development Authority.

Practice Areas

Admissions

Kentucky, 1988

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana

Education

Auburn University, B.S., Business Administration – Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, high honors, 1984

University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1988

Completed Mediation Training 2019