
Contact
eisaac@dunlapcodding.com PH: 405-607-8600 OKLAHOMA CITY 609 W. Sheridan AvenueOklahoma City, OK 73102
Elizabeth L. Isaac
Elizabeth leads Dunlap Codding’s Design group. Her practice includes all areas of intellectual property, patent preparation and prosecution, due diligence, trademarks, copyrights, entertainment law, and Internet law as well as multi-disciplinary intellectual property portfolio management, licensing, transactional, and litigation matters.
Elizabeth manages complex, multinational brand portfolios of private and publicly traded companies. She handles trademark settlement and licensing agreements from both offensive and defensive positions.
Elizabeth also has extensive experience in identifying and protecting all aspects of industrial design, including strategies for design patent and trademark configuration procurement. In tandem with her design patent experience, Elizabeth is well-versed in utility prosecution in the mechanical, medical device, and computer-related arts.
Additionally, Elizabeth has taken the lead in negotiating and drafting licensing strategies for clients in the entertainment and electronic media industries.
Elizabeth currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Oklahoma City University Alumni Association, the Oklahoma County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and deadCenter Film. Elizabeth is a member of the American Intellectual Property Association Industrial (AIPLA) Design Committee and served as Moderator for the AIPLA Design Rights Boot Camp 2020.
- Conducted and prepared a due diligence search and opinion concerning all forms of intellectual property (e.g., patents, inventor disclosures, trademarks, domain names) owned by or assigned to a target entity in a multi-million dollar purchase agreement and advised business counsel regarding the intellectual property provisions of the same
- Managed the worldwide patent and trademark asset transfer associated with business merger and reorganization
- Managed the intellectual property and trademarks associated with the rebranding of a worldwide alternative health training program
- Prepared certification training materials containing extensive intellectual property provisions
- Determined copyright protection in an architectural work and assessed the risk of copyright infringement associated with building a luxury residence
- Advised a 3D printing service company as to the risks associated with patent, trademark, and copyright infringement and prepared agreements to mitigate the financial liability associated with the same
- Prepared agreements for a 3D printing service company regarding use and intellectual property associated with models provided by users
- Advised the operator of multiple fan conventions and festivals as to strategies for mitigating copyright and trademark infringement of rights held by owners’ of popular works and prepared agreements between the operator and exhibitors
- Prepared operating agreements for an independent film production company seeking investments for five different films with budgets ranging between $500,000 and $2,000,000
- Reviewed, analyzed and prepared a signatory for a film production company entering a collective bargaining agreement with the Writers Guild of America
- Secured copyright protection in sound recordings and removed infringing works online
- Prepared international design patent applications through the Hague Convention for protecting multiple designs associated with new health industry product lines
- Prepared utility patent applications for medical devices, food industry devices, and consumer devices
- Prepared opinion letter to determine whether a consumer product design was protected by trade dress and assess the risk associated with trade dress infringement of the product configuration
- Drafted a prototype developer agreement where designer and developer owned the intellectual property
- Drafted, reviewed, and help negotiate publishing agreements
- Oklahoma State Bar
- Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Oklahoma City University School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
- Austin College, B.A., magna cum laude, Life Sciences and Communications, double major
Professional, Community, and Civic
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™ 2022 – 2024 for Entertainment and Sports Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law, and Technology Law
- Named Oklahoma City University School of Law’s Outstanding Young Alumnus, 2020
- Named to Oklahoma Super Lawyers – Rising Stars, 2018 – 2020
- Journal Record, Achievers Under 40, 2017
- Oklahoma County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Board of Directors
- Named to the okc.BIZ list of Forty Under 40 2016
Oklahoma City University College of Law
- Dean’s Scholar
- CALI Awards: Copyright Law, Corporations, Litigation Sequence I, Advanced Legal Research, Constitutional Law II, Criminal Procedure, Art & Cultural Heritage Law
- Moot Court Society, Appellate Advocacy Judge, 2012 – 2013
- Faculty Honor Roll and Dean’s List
- Law Review, Member 2011-2013
- Holloway Inn of Court, Member 2012-2013
- ABA Appellate Advocacy, Brief Writer 2012
- Phi Delta Phi Honorary Society
- Student Bar Association
- Merit Scholars, Vice President 2013, Secretary 2012
- Intellectual Property Student Association, Secretary 2013
Austin College
- Cain Foundation Scholarship
- Alpha Chi Honor Society
- Texas Collegiate Association of Press Award
- Dean’s List
- “In Their Own Skin,” Oklahoma City University School of Law Magazine, Summer 2013
- “What Every Start-Up Company Should Know About Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights,” Primerus Paradigm, Fall 2014, with Emily Campbell.
- Elizabeth was quoted in the Oklahoma Gazette, “IgniteOKC offers 13 presenters 6 minutes each to share rapid-fire, TED-like talks,” May 20, 2015, by Ben Felder
- “Intellectual Property 101: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know,” Oklahoma City University Alumni Association CLE, Spring 2021
- “Pre-Production Intellectual Property Considerations,” Oklahoma Film + Music Office Inaugural Conference, 2019
- “Intellectual Property and Churches,” CREATE: initiative, 2018
- Protecting Your District Brand and Artwork for the Oklahoma City District Get Together, 2017
- “Hear + Now: Making Music in Oklahoma”, 2017, Oklahoma Film + Music Office
- “Copyright and Trademarks for Graphic Designers, Gordon Cooper Technology Center, 2016”
- Board of Directors, 2018, deadCenter Film Festival
- LOYAL Class XII, 2016
- Catalyst of Allied Arts, Vice Chair, Membership, 2016 – 2017
- Catalyst of Allied Arts, Board Member, 2015 – 2016
- Catalyst of Allied Arts, Organization Member, 2013 – 2015
- IgniteOKC, Board Chair, 2015 – 2016
- IgniteOKC, Event Chair, 2014 – 2015
- IgniteOKC, Leadership Crew Member, 2012 – 2014
- Yoga Teacher Training
- Landscape Photography
- French Language Immersion in Quebec
- St. Thomas Orthodox Church, First Grade Sunday School Teacher