Antoaneta Tarpanova

An international IP practitioner, she has served as counsel since 2007 and as a mediator since 2018. She is an EUIPO representative, an EPO-registered legal practitioner, and a USPTO patent and trademark attorney with extensive experience in intellectual property prosecution and litigation. Her practice has involved complex technical and legal issues across diverse industries in domestic and cross-border commercial and intellectual property matters. She has expertise in settlement negotiations, disputes involving trademark and patent licensing, copyright, trademark and patent infringement, and technology-related matters. Her litigation and prosecution experience includes representation before the EUIPO, the U.S. courts, the USPTO, the Bulgarian courts, and the Bulgarian Patent Office. She has also served as counsel in proceedings administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA), JAMS, and the Arbitration Court of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, involving intellectual property, patent licensing, copyright, breach of contract, and cross-border commercial agreements. She has practiced as a court-appointed mediator at a Bulgarian district court and has acted as both sole mediator and co-mediator in commercial and intellectual property disputes, including as a co-mediator with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) in New York. She holds an M.A. in Organic Chemistry from Queens College, City University of New York. She pursued legal studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia, Bulgaria; Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, France; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, USA; and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London, UK.