National law firm Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Tim Capria, Alan Nemes, and Caroline Chicoine have been ranked in the 2025 edition of WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. Capria is ranked in Tennessee while Nemes and Chicoine are ranked in Missouri and Kansas.
Capria, who is the Office Managing Partner of the firm's Nashville, Tennessee office, focuses his practice on trademark portfolio management and counseling, including both the registration and filing of trademarks and the policing of potential trademark infringement domestically and abroad. Many of the clients Capria represents have hundreds of trademarks worldwide, and he has a special focus on franchisers, consumer goods manufacturers and distributors, and media properties.
Nemes assists consumer products and services companies, including those in the food, beverage, and fashion industries, gain and maintain their competitive edge through solid intellectual property strategies. He represents clients in domestic and worldwide IP disputes, where he protects thousands of trademark applications and registrations globally and directs hundreds of enforcement actions in a multitude of countries.
An electrical engineer before she became an IP and trademark attorney, Chicoine is extremely adept at counseling clients on the selection and registration of their trademarks and the enforcement of those trademarks in the virtual world. With 30 years of experience clearing and registering marks, she knows exactly what can and cannot be protected, how to overcome obstacles and how to get clients where they want to be.
Nemes and Chicoine are members of the firm’s St. Louis office.
Now in its 15th year, the WTR 1000 shines a spotlight on the firms and individuals that are deemed outstanding in this critical area of practice. Individual practitioners, law firms, and trademark attorney practices qualify for inclusion in the WTR 1000 solely on receiving sufficient positive feedback from market sources. The extensive research process was conducted over a four-month period by a team of full-time analysts and involved face-to-face and telephone interviews with trademark specialists across the globe.