Jillian L. Gosser

Ms. Gosser’s practice spans all areas of intellectual property law, from utility and design patent applications and prosecution to trademarks, copyrights, and litigation. Ms. Gosser has ample experience preparing and prosecuting utility patent applications both domestically and abroad and has also focused extensively on drafting and prosecuting design patent applications.  She enjoys developing creative strategies to ensure that clients achieve the maximum protection available in the design patent space and has experience in overcoming challenging rejections to designs both domestically and abroad.  Ms. Gosser has assisted clients in obtaining utility, design, and coextensive utility and design patent protection in the areas of medical devices, pumps, automotive parts, software, microbial testing devices, and hairbrushes, to name a few. 

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Ms. Gosser also devotes much of her practice to domestic and foreign trademark preparation and prosecution, and has experience in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).  She has successfully obtained several domestic trademark registrations for clients over difficult rejections issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, including registered trade dress for the appearance of products sold by clients that previously held utility or design patent protection for the products.  Ms. Gosser also works with a network of foreign associates to manage global trademark portfolios containing hundreds of registrations spanning countries across the world.

 

Prior to law school, Ms. Gosser studied Neuroscience at Bowling Green State University and was a researcher in the behavioral neuroscience research lab, with her findings being published in the Journal of Arachnology. In law school, Ms. Gosser was a Dean’s Leadership Fellow as well as Research Assistant to the Dean of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Mr. Lee Fisher. Ms. Gosser was also Executive Symposium Editor of the Global Business Law Review, and President and a founding member of the Student Parent Alliance, which focused on connecting parenting students in law school to resources for survival and academic accomplishment.

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Honors/Awards

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Ms. Gosser has a passion for leadership and has participated in leadership training programs since she was a teenager.  Ms. Gosser was recently selected to participate in the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) Ladder Down Cleveland class of 2025.  Ladder Down is a year-long program for female attorneys that provides leadership and business development training through coaching, panel discussions with female leaders in law, networking opportunities, and other events with a particular focus on paying it forward to other female attorneys.  In law school, Ms. Gosser received a scholarship to attend Cleveland State University as a member of the Dean’s Leadership Fellows, a program focused on lawyer leadership through service in which she participated for all three years of law school.  During her time in law school, Ms. Gosser was awarded the CALI Award for Excellence in the Future in the study of Copyright Law.  She studied many intellectual property courses throughout her education and earned the Certificate of Intellectual Property upon her graduation with honors from Cleveland State University. 

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Articles & Publications

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Jillian Gosser, Comparative Intellectual Property Protection for Marijuana: United States vs. The European Union, 11 Global Bus. L. Rev. 78 (2022) available at https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gblr/vol11/iss1/7

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Casto P, Gosser J, Wiegmann DD, Hebets EA, Bingman VP (2019) Self-derived chemical cues support home refuge recognition in the whip spider Phrynus marginemaculatus (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). J Arachnol 47(2):290–292. https://doi.org/10.1636/joa-s-18-067