law: Faculty
- Title:
- Adjunct Professor
- Department:
- Law
- Campus:
- San Francisco
Anne Hiaring Hocking has specialized in trademark and copyright law since 1981. She is Adjunct Professor of Trademark, Copyright, and International Intellectual Property Law at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California and formerly Bangkok, Thailand. She has chaired numerous programs on Intellectual Property law topics, and has served as President of the San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association and Chair of the State Bar of California Intellectual Property Law Section. She has spoken and moderated numerous International Trademark Law Association and Practicing Law Institute programs. She has written for AmJur on copyright and trademark law topics, as well as presented numerous papers. She received her BA in German Literature from Reed College in 1973, Phi Beta Kappa and her JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1979. In 2006 she received an LLM in International Law from Golden Gate University. She studied at the Albrecht-Ludwigs Universitaet in Freiburg and the Freie Universitaet in Berlin, Germany. She also worked for the Iran Center for Management Studies in Teheran, Iran before attending law school.
After working at two large law firms, she was the IP rights attorney for Pacific Telesis for five years, where she was responsible for all aspects of domestic and international trademark filing and enforcement, and all copyright and trade secret procedures. She founded her own firm in 1990 and co-founded Hiaring-Smith in 2010. Representative clients include:
- Altec Lansing
- Plantronics
- TiVo
- Si-Bone
- Optovue
- Dr. Martens
- HUF
- Thrasher Magazine
- Cost Plus World Market
- Japan Tobacco Inc.
- Organic Girl
- Multiple Organics
- Juice Beauty
- Round Hill
- Jean Claude Boisset Family Wines
- Thackrey
- Cima Collina