Jennifer Golinveaux

Jennifer is an intellectual property litigator and co-chair of Winston & Strawn’s highly regarded Intellectual Property Practice. She represents clients in a wide variety of industries in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade dress, design patent, right of publicity, and internet-related disputes. She is known as an industry leader in copyright and trademark litigation and counseling and is consistently recognized by The Legal 500US, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, and WorldTrademark Review.

Jennifer has represented a number of the leading internet service providers and technology companies in cutting edge copyright and trademark cases. She also has more than two decades of experience litigating trademark, trade dress, design patent, and unfair competition cases in a wide variety of industries, including Internet and technology, consumer goods, and food and beverage.

Notably, Jennifer served as lead counsel for Office Depot in copyright litigation brought by Great Minds concerning educational materials subject to Creative Commons licenses and the proper scope of the Creative Commons license. She and her team obtained dismissal of the case on the pleadings in the Central District of California and Jennifer successfully argued the appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

Jennifer has been widely recognized for her work as a Leading Partner in copyright litigation in The Legal 500 US(2013–2021, 2023, and 2024), in which a client commented that she “sets the gold standard for punctiliousness and professionalism.” She is listed in the Best Lawyers in America(2014–2024) for her work in entertainment law. In2024, Jennifer was ranked in Chambers USA for her California copyright and trademark practice and she was selected as an “IP Star” by Managing IP (2021-2023). She has also been repeatedly named among the world’s leading trademark practitioners for both litigation and prosecution by the World Trademark Review (2011–2024), in which she is described as “engaged, sharp-witted and thorough” whose “insights are hugely valuable when you have important business decisions to make.” She “can be relied on for vigorous support in the toughest cases.”