Koley Jessen P.C., L.L.O.
One Pacific Place
1125 South 103rd Street, Suite 800
Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: 402-343-3712
Fax: 402-390-9005
roberta.christensen@koleyjessen.com
Roberta Christensen is the Chair of Koley Jessen’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and a member of the Tax Practice Group. Roberta’s accounting background enables her to counsel clients with respect to sales and use tax matters, particularly nexus planning. Roberta counsels clients on the protection of their U.S. and foreign intellectual property assets and provides services associated with such protection, including researching and providing opinions on the availability and/or registrability of trademarks; filing and prosecuting trademark and copyright registration applications; policing trademarks for infringing uses; and addressing actual or potential infringement of intellectual property through cease-and-desist letters and other dispute resolution mechanisms. Roberta also assists clients with respect to the commercialization of their intellectual property assets through the performance of due diligence in pending acquisitions and the drafting and negotiating of various types of transactional documents including licenses, assignments, sale and purchase agreements, joint venture agreements and supplier and distributor agreements. Roberta has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America (© 2013 Woodward/White Inc.) for her work in Technology Law.
Representative Experience
Practice Groups
Intellectual Property
Education
J.D., Creighton University, 1994 (summa cum laude)
Certified Public Accountant, Nebraska, 1990 (currently inactive)
B.S., University of Nebraska – Lincoln, NE 1987 (cum laude)
Bar Admission
State of Nebraska
Professional and Community Involvement
Nebraska State Bar Association
International Trademark Association
Omaha Children’s Museum, Board of Directors, Past President and Executive Committee Member
Leadership Omaha – Class 26