Amy Allen Hinson

Amy Allen Hinson practices primarily in the area of intellectual property law and commercial litigation. She assists clients through complex intellectual property disputes and litigations involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. She also assits clients in a wide range of general litigation matters.

Ms. Allen Hinson is a registered patent attorney before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She prepares and prosecutes patent, trademark, and copyright applications and advises clients concerning defensive patent reexamination strategies. Ms. Allen Hinson also counsels clients concerning patent, trademark, and copyright business development and licensing.

Since she began practicing law, Ms. Allen Hinson has obtained extensive experience counseling clients in federal intellectual property litigations throughout the United States including California, Delaware, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas.  Ms. Allen Hinson also frequently works closely with Nexsen Pruet's corporate attorneys in analyzing asset purchase agreements, general contracts, and performing due diligence analysis concerning all forms of intellectual property.

Ms. Allen Hinson is originally from Spartanburg, SC.  She received a B.S., cum laude, in Ceramic Engineering from Clemson University and she received her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law.  Ms. Allen Hinson is currently a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals for the City of Greenville, vice-president of the Gridley Club, on the Greenville Advisory Board for the Urban League of the Upstate, and a member of the Greenville Women’s Club, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, both the Spartanburg and Greenville County Bar Associations, and the South Carolina Bar.  She also actively participates in InnoVenture and related conferences and is an active member of her neighborhood association, the Colonel Elias Earle Historic District Association.  Ms. Allen Hinson loves being a downtown resident of Greenville where she lives on Earle Street with her husband and son.

Before joining Nexsen Pruet, Ms. Allen Hinson worked in various engineering-related positions with CeramTec North America in Laurens, S.C.

• City of Greenville Board of Zoning Appeals (August 30, 2010 - Present)
• Presented a roundtable discussion at the Swamp Fox Materials Forum entitled: Best Practices for Collaboration Between Companies, Entrepreneurs, and Universities (February 17, 2009).
• Trademark Moot Court team, University of Tennessee
• Ogden & Sullivan, P.A. Moot Court Brief Writing Award
• At the University of Tennessee, Ms. Allen Hinson received the top grade in Copyright Law, Entertainment Law, Contracts, Business Transactions, and Environmental Law
• Frequently authors articles concerning intellectual property matters

• Amy Allen Hinson Named one of Greenville’s “Best & Brightest” for 2011
  The Greenville Business Magazine program is sponsored by Greenville First Bank and recognizes 35 business and community leaders who are younger than 35

• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains the following articles:

  My company has no intellectual property... or does it?

  Brain Child

  What the Librarian of Congress has to do with your cell phone

• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains the following articles:

  - The Patent Reform Act of 2010

  - Notable IP Group Activities

  - The Transformative Obama "Hope" Poster Fair Use or an Infringing Derivative Work?

• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains the following articles:

  -Further Affiant Sayeth Not...

  -Wiping Out Patent Infringement Damages - The Reexamination Strategy

  -Mediation and Asymmetric Mis-information

• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains the following articles:

  - Court Applies "Reasonableness" Standard to Invention Assignment

  - I Lost Fifty Pounds Using This Product!!!

  - Why Should Cash-Strapped Start-Up Companies Spend Money on IP Attorneys?

• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains the following articles:
  - South Carolina and The Wind Energy Debate
  - Virtual Mediation
  - Damages in Patent Cases
  - Liability Risks for Corporate Networking Websites
  
• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains articles related to:
  
  1. Trademark Protection in NC Under State Statutes
  2. Using a Trademark in Commerce
  3. Damages in Patent Cases, Part 2 of 3
  
• LightSwitch - Intellectual Property Law Bulletin
  This edition contains articles related to:
  
  1) The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (a.k.a. PRO-IP Act)
  2) Damages in Patent Cases, Part 1 of 3
  3) Non-traditional Trademarks and Servicemarks

• Innoventure: Creating the Future
• Advanced Materials: Models and Methods Forum