Brian Focarino is a trademark, copyright & advertising associate at Cooley in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was legal intern for digital media law at Google, legal intern for trademark and copyright law at Verizon, and an intern for The Honorable Randall R. Rader, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
He is a contributing author at IPWatchdog, where he writes about trademark, copyright, First Amendment and IP policy.

He is a 2015 honors graduate of William & Mary Law School, where he was named the Thalia V. Warnement Scholar in Intellectual Property Law, a 2012 honors graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a 2011 honors graduate of the College of William & Mary.