Spencer Beall
Biography
Overview
Spencer Beall maintains a multi-faceted practice with strengths spanning complex intellectual property litigation, enforcement, prosecution, counselling, and transactions.
Spencer's litigation experience includes trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, patent, and trade secret matters. She has worked on several cases involving packaging designs and configurations for household brand products, fashion items, and other goods and services.
Spencer offers clients full-service intellectual property counselling, including prosecution, portfolio management, and enforcement. She works with clients across a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, finance, hospitality, education, technology and IT, healthcare, cosmetics, real estate, and fashion. Spencer works closely with clients to build and maintain global intellectual property portfolios of all sizes and develop successful enforcement strategies, helping each client achieve its unique brand goals.
In addition to her prosecution, enforcement, and litigation experience, Spencer also advises clients on a broad range of domestic and global intellectual property issues, including advertising, licensing, and technology transactions. She has also advised clients in matters involving music licensing disputes and enforcement actions concerning use of music in social media and political campaigns.
Prior to joining White & Case, Spencer worked for a global intellectual property boutique firm and an AmLaw100 firm.
Experience
Spencer represents one of the US's largest e-commerce platforms in connection with various enforcement, litigation, and counselling matters, including advertising, promotions, website policies, marketing programs, warranties, licensing, DMCA Notice and Takedown procedures, and complex trademark, trade dress, and copyright enforcement matters.
Spencer represents a leading personal care products manufacturer in connection with a trademark infringement, false advertising and unfair competition action against a celebrity lifestyle brand.
Conopco, Inc. v. WBM, LLC
Represented Unilever in a hotly-contested trade dress infringement and unfair competition case that successfully stopped foreign manufacturer of soaps from using a packaging that was confusingly similar to the recognizable LOVE BEAUTY AND PLANET trade dress.
Conopco, Inc. v. 2026 Third Realty, LLC. et al
Assisted Unilever in an anti-counterfeiting case that stopped the distribution of 17,280 units of expired and counterfeit Hellmann's mayonnaise. Helped secure several ex parte temporary restraining orders and a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Spencer represented a major footwear designer in connection with a district court appeal of the United States Patent & Trademark Office's refusal to register the designer's trade dress for one of the most iconic footwear designs in the U.S.
Spencer represented a leading global hospitality company in a trademark infringement action that stopped a competitor from using its mark.
Spencer is dual-qualified to practice in England & Wales.
Missing Figures: The Cybersecurity Gender Gap, J. European and American Intelligence Studies (June 2018)
"Lock Her Up!" How Women Have Become the Fastest-Growing Population in the American Carceral State, 23 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 1 (2018)
