Signe Naeve is director, corporate counsel for intellectual property at Starbucks Coffee Company where she oversees the trademark strategy for North and South America. Prior to joining Starbucks, she was a Law Lecturer and Director of the Intellectual Property LL.M. Program at the University of Washington School of Law, teaching Copyright, Trademark, International IP and First Amendment and IP classes. She also managed the trademark practice as Of Counsel for Hughes Media Law Group. Signe began her career as a litigator at Perkins Coie LLP, and clerked for the Hon. Bobbe J. Bridge, Washington State Supreme Court, and externed for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has degrees in Journalism and English from Washington State University and a J.D. from the University of Washington.