Specialist focus: Intellectual Property: Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, Trade Secrets, Media, Advertising

Susan Meyer, Partner with UB Greensfelder, helps publicly-held and privately owned companies and individuals plan for success and navigate complex legal challenges. Susan helps international clients in launching businesses in the United States as well as assisting U.S. businesses with their international expansion. She provides practical business-driven solutions to matters involving intellectual property, growth, distribution, and legal compliance with the goal of helping clients thrive.

Susan handles a variety of intellectual property matters including trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secrets, advertising, branding, artificial intelligence (AI), design, patent management, and emerging technologies. Susan helps clients with obtaining, managing, enforcing, and leveraging IP to the owner’s best advantage (for instance, monetizing IP by licenses or other means). When necessary, Susan counsels and represents clients in dispute resolution spanning negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation up to and through trial, and if necessary, appeal.

In 2019, Susan was appointed to serve as Norway’s Honorary Consul for Illinois, and since 2023, her role also includes Wisconsin. In this role, she assists with consular affairs and helps to facilitate business, cultural, and diplomatic relations between Norway and the U.S.

Susan serves on the board of Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® (wegg), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women-owned businesses expand internationally.