Jacqueline Pennino Scheib has more than two decades of experience helping national and international companies preserve their intellectual property and achieve their business goals. She works with clients across a range of industries in the areas of intellectual property counseling, prosecution, and enforcement as well as on transactions related to intellectual property, technology, and corporate law. She has a particular depth of experience assisting clients in the technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer product, and food and beverage industries.
Intellectual Property
- Prosecuting, maintaining, and enforcing trademark and copyright registrations and rights worldwide, including work for very well recognized household brand names
- Advising on the establishment of trade secret programs and counseling clients on packaging, labeling, promotional and advertising matters
- Advising on and structuring mechanisms for the creation, exploitation, transfer, and protection of intellectual property to help companies protect their products and grow
- Assisting with resolution of ownership and rights disputes including handling of proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
Technology
Jackie provides counseling on and negotiates technology licensing and development, acquisitions, outsourcing, management, maintenance, and servicing agreements. She is well-versed in the various mechanisms for provision of software products and services and has significant experience with various technology service and outsourcing models. Her work covers a wide range of technology fields, but she has particular depth of experience providing advice in the healthcare context, including in connection with the implementation of electronic medical record systems, counseling regarding medical devices, health information exchange platforms, claim processing and clinical information systems, and clinical trials including administration, research and development.
Corporate Transactions
Jackie provides counsel to clients on sophisticated joint ventures, strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions with a particular focus on intellectual property and technology components of such transactions. She has decades of experience assisting with all aspects of her clients' daily commercial contracting needs, including sales agreements and purchase contracts, distribution agreements, terms and conditions, service and consulting agreements, sales representative agreements, and nondisclosure agreements. Jackie serves as a trusted advisor to numerous businesses to coordinate legal services that help clients meet their needs.
Prior to joining Robinson+Cole, Jackie served as a law clerk to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
