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Overview
Professional Licenses
Ms. Naumann is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition, Ms. Naumann is also licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.
Professional Memberships and Leadership
Ms. Naumann is a member of the Chicago Bar Association, where she has served as Chairman of the Science, Technology and Law Committee. Ms. Naumann was the Co-chairman for the Patent Committee of the Converging Technologies Bar Association for 2006-2007.
Ms. Naumann has served as Secretary on the Board of the University of Chicago, Chicago Women's Alliance. She was also appointed to the Electronic Discovery Pilot Program of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ms. Naumann previously served on the Illinois Institute of Technology Alumni Association Board of Directors in Chicago, Illinois from 2007 through 2010. Ms. Naumann has also participated as a judge for science projects in the Illinois Institute of Technology Interprofessional Projects Program. In this program, undergraduate students collaborate on projects directed to industry, medicine, transportation and alternative energy resources.
Professional Experience and Expertise
Ms. Naumann has worked continuously as an attorney since she graduated from law school. Ms. Naumann established her own practice in 1996 which is exclusively intellectual property law. Ms. Naumann's practice includes individual entrepreneurs and start-up companies, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. Her issued patents include a broad range of technologies including: a razor handle, board game, agricultural method, pneumatically driven trench shoring device, floral containers, electromechanical locks, laminar flow nozzle, portable exercise devices, mechanical bag holder, freight car valves, computer storage devices and shelving. When necessary, she has filed patent application appeals in the Patent & Trademark Office on behalf of clients.
Ms. Naumann has also obtained trademarks, copyrights and design patents on behalf of individual artists and writers as well as companies. In addition to obtaining intellectual property protection through government agencies, Ms. Naumann advises and drafts documents relating to intellectual property ownership, shop rights, work for hire, transfers of rights, licenses, permissions, rescission, consents, distribution agreements, non-disclosure agreements, releases, trade secrets, proprietary information and websites.
About Adrienne B. Naumann
Current Employment Position(s)
- Attorney
Practice Areas
- Chinese non-disclosure, non-circumvent, non-compete contracts
- Confidential Information
- Copyrights
- Apparel design protection
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Trade secrets
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
Other Affiliations
- University of Chicago’s Women’s Alliance (Board Member and Secretary)
- Chicago Bar Association, Science, Technology and Law Committee (Member and past Chairman)
- Converging Technologies Bar Association, Patent Committee, 2006 - 2007 (Co-Chairman)
- Electronic Discovery Pilot Program, Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2014 - 2016
Classes and Seminars
- July 18, 2024. CLE three hour audio video presentation entitled: Recent Intellectual Property Developments in the United States Federal Courts. Ms. Naumann was the sole author and presenter with production and sponsorship by ApexCLE, Inc. in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
- May 14, 2024. Oral/visual presentation and eight page outline handout entitled: Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence for Attorneys. Presented virtually to North Shore Law, a women’s attorney group in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area.
- August 2023. “Intellectual Property Developments in the United States Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Courts.” Ms. Naumann was the sole author and presenter for this CLE accredited presentation which was sponsored and produced by ApexCLE, Inc., This three-hour presentation and power point addressed federal patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret decisions from, August, 2022 - June, 2023
- July 29, 2022. One hour podcast interview responding to intellectual property questions posed by Mr. Steven Leahy, Esq. The Trust Radio Network, sponsored by Open Tax Advocates, Radio AM 560.
- June 14, 2021. Accredited sixty-minute videotaped presentation through continuing legal education company ApexCLE,Inc. "Patent Eligible subject Matter 2020-2021." This presentation and associated power point are commercially distributed to end users' electronic devices.
- April 2, 2019. Accredited ninety-minute presentation through continuing legal education company Pincus Communications, Inc. This presentation includes a videotaped power point entitled “United States Federal Intellectual Property Developments 2018-2019.”
- November 18, 2017. One-hour presentation on “Basic Contract Law in the United States,” before the Levy Entrepreneurs Group, Skokie, Illinois. The presentation included a question-and-answer session on related contract inquiries.
- ApexCLE videotaping in Mount Prospect, Illinois of presentation entitled “2016-2017 U.S. Supreme Court Intellectual Property Review.” Distributed for continuing legal education credits by mobile devices. June 27, 2017.
- ApexCLE videotaping in Mount Prospect, Illinois of presentation entitled "Recent Changes in United States Intellectual Property Law." Distributed for continuing legal education credits by mobile devices. November 23, 2015
- North Shore Law and Chicago Title & Trust, Skokie, Illinois. Co-presentor of Continuing Legal Education in person presentation entitled “Intellectual Property in 2015.” One hour presentation on current United States copyright and trade secret law, March 25, 2015
- Masters Conference, Chicago, Illinois. Hour panel presentation of proposed changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and with focus upon Rule 26(b) (1) and Rule 37, May 28, 2014
- ApexCLE, Inc., Mount Prospect, Illinois. Videotaping of ninety minutes presentation entitled “2013-2014 Significant Changes to United States Intellectual Property Law.” Customer access by mobile applications, websites and DVDs, April 28, 2014
- Levy Entrepreneur Group. “Introduction to Proposed Final SEC Regulations Implementing Title III of the JOBS Act.” November 9, 2013
- Seventh Circuit e-Discovery Pilot Committee and Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois. Member of panel on “Electronic discovery with limited resources,” specifically addressing e-discovery for limited resource litigants. April 15, 2013
- ApexCLE, Inc. Mount Prospect, Illinois. Presentation entitled “Critical Changes in United States Patent Law.” Distributed for continuing legal education credits for by mobile applications, websites and DVDs. February 26, 2013
- Pincus Professional Education, Chicago, Illinois. Continuing Legal Education Program, “E-Discovery in 2013: What Attorneys Need to Know, Current E-Discovery Case Law, Protocols and Standing Orders.” February 21, 2013
- Chicago Black Inventors Association, Chicago, Illinois. Question and Answer session for intellectual property topics. March 12, 2011
- Mr. Randall Hunt, Sponsor, Fosco Park, Chicago, Illinois.” An Entrepreneur’s Intellectual Property Platform.” Presentation provides ten cost-effective recommendations for maintaining and protecting intellectual property in small businesses. March 20, 2010
- Levy Entrepreneur Group, Skokie, Illinois. Interactive presentation addressing “Status of Patent Eligibility Requirements for Business Methods." July 18, 2009
- Levy Entrepreneur Group, Skokie, Illinois. Interactive presentation addressing Investor Requirements for a Patent Pending Kabob Generating Attachment. January 10, 2009
- Levy Entrepreneur Group, Skokie, Illinois. Presentation addressing “Intellectual Property Protection that Increases Profitability” (how Ms. Naumann implemented Prospan Manufacturing Company’s intellectual property protection economically and effectively), August 9, 2008
- Levy Entrepreneur Group, Skokie, Illinois. Presentation addressing "Patentable Subject Matter" (focus upon history of computer related patentable processes and the business method patent controversy), July 12, 2008
- Levy Entrepreneur Group, Skokie, Illinois. Presentation for “Current Patent Related Events about Which Small Business Owners Should be Aware." September 15, 2007
- McAndrews Held & Malloy, Chicago, Illinois. Power point presentation for “The Continuing Controversy over Computer Related Inventions” (focus upon patentable subject matter and enablement when drafting utility patent applications for computer related inventions). August 15, 2007
- Department of Computer Sciences Faculty, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. Power point presentation for “Intellectual Property for Computer Personnel and Businesses” (focus upon drafting computer related patent applications). May 8, 2006
- Technology Innovation Center, Evanston, Illinois. Power point presentation for “Protection of Intellectual Property” (introduction to practical aspects of patent, trade secret and copyright protection). February 15, 2006
Pro Bono Activities
- Board of Directors, Illinois Institute of Technology Alumni Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2007 - 2010
- Sierra Club of Illinois
- Environmental Defense Fund
Education
- Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Honors: With High Honors
Honors: American Jurisprudence Award-Torts
Law Review: Chicago- Kent Law Review, Published Member - University of Illinois
Masters of Science
Honors: Summer Scholarship, Argonne National Laboratory
Honors: Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research
Honors: Teaching assistantships for university undergraduates
Honors: Research assistantships supporting a published laboratory investigation - University of Chicago
A.B.
Honors: Nu Pi Sigma Honorary Society
Articles
Published Works
- Adrienne B. Naumann, “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” FRIENDLY PASSAGES 2019-2020 pp. 28-32. Friends of the Rupert J. Smith Law Library of St. Lucie County, Florida
- “Intellectual Property for Business People” at adriennebnauman.wordpress.com. Over one hundred articles on a wide spectrum of all intellectual property topics.
- Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse Electronics, Inc., Friendly Passages November/December 2016
- Not your Mom’s (trade) Dress: Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics” FRIENDLY PASSAGES, pp. 12-14, 25, January/February 2016
- “I’m Seeing Red!” FRIENDLY PASSAGES, pp. 18-19, September/October 2015
- "The Theory of Everything Part 3” FRIENDLY PASSAGES, pp. 18-21, July/August 2015
- “The Theory of Everything, Part 2,” FRIENDLY PASSAGES, pp. 10-13, March/April 2015
- “Gimme What You Got,” THE JOURNAL OF HEARTLAND ANGELS 32 (February 2015)
- “Theory of Everything: Intellectual Property Part One,” FRIENDLY PASSAGES, pp. 12-15 January/February 2015
- “Nice While It Lasted: The Demise of Business Method Patents,” FRIENDLY PASSAGES, November/December 2014
- “Micro Entity Advantage,” THE JOURNAL OF THE HEARTLAND ANGELS 25-26 (May 2014)
- “Early Detection of Breast Cancer with No Radiation!” Triblocal.com/Skokie, February 20, 2010
- “Azurin Derived Cancer Diagnostic & Therapeutic Agents" at https://sites.google.com/site/naumannpatent/copyright
- "Patentable Subject Matter within the Scope of 35 U.S.C. section 101, PROTECTIVE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SERVICES NEWSLETTER, July 2007
- “Antitrust Implications for Patented Genes and Nanotechnologies: A Review of Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink, Inc. 126 S. Ct. 1281 (2006), THE HUMAN FUTURE, July 2006
- “An Analysis of In re Dane Fisher and Raghunath v. Lalgudi and its Implications for the Patentability of Future Claimed Expressed Sequence Tags, “THE HUMAN FUTURE, April 2006
- “Microbial Recombinant Cloning Vehicle: Patent Validity under 35 U.S.C. section 103,” HOSPITAL LAW 22:8 pp. 251-255 (August 1989)
- Illinois General Assembly, Legislative Research Unit, RESEARCH RESPONSE “Using DNA Testing to Identify Criminals” (March 13, 1989)
- Illinois General Assembly, Legislative Research Unit, “Plans Accelerate for Superconducting Super Collider,” FIRST READING Volume 3:9, pp. 1, 2 (October 1988)
- Illinois General Assembly, Legislative Research Unit “Genetic Engineering Has Big Potential in Illinois,” FIRST READING 3: 8, pp. 1, 4 and 5 (September 1988)
- “Pre-marketing and Research Requirements of Bioengineered Drugs and Biologics, “HOSPITAL LAW 21:4 pp. 73-87 (April 1988)
- “Amgen Corporation v. Cetus: Preliminary Analysis of Nonobviousness, “HOSPITAL LAW 20:8 pp. 130-35 (August 1987)
- “Biotechnology: Recent Developments in Patent Law,” HOSPITAL LAW, 20:2 pp. 17-21 (February 1987)
- “Federal regulation of Recombinant DNA Technology: Time for a Change,” 1986 HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 1:1 pp. 61-98 (Spring 1986) (Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley)
- Author, Adrienne B. Naumann. UNITED STATES FEDERAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS 2018-2019. Copyright 2019 Pincus Professional Education. This book includes judicial decisions under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act as well as United States Supreme Court intellectual property decisions.
Office Information
Address
8210 North Tripp Skokie, IL 60076
Phone
Fax
- 847-329-8750
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Included on the 2025 Illinois Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2023 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Illinois Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Illinois Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Better Business Bureau of Northern Illinois, A+ rating 2011-2023
- Rated Illinois Super lawyer 2017-2023
- Research Internship, Argonne National Laboratory
- Teaching and Research Assistantships, University of Illinois
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