Washington College of Law Intellectual Property Clinic student-attorneys Lex Baird and Isabel Thelen, and former student-attorneys Sumra Wahid, Eames Armstrong, Katharine Chamberlain, Helena Alvarez, Sydney Novoa, Isabel Garcia, Madeline Reed, Sheerin Tehrani, and Madeline Burkard have obtained a trademark registration for the Bethesda-based jewelry vendor, Viva Vida. The company’s founder, Mary Sapountzakis, incorporated elements of her cosmopolitan upbringing and family jewelry trade into her business, which she started in 2018 while battling leukemia. Clinic student-attorneys helped prepare and submit an application for the mark “Viva Vida”—”live life” in Portuguese—and supported Ms. Sapountzakis through various stages of administrative adversarial proceedings before obtaining a final registration in February, 2024. Ms. Sapountzakis hopes to expand her business with the federal protections afforded under the newly registered mark.